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Bamboo Flooring for Homes with Pets
When exploring pet-friendly flooring options, look no further than bamboo wood flooring. Bamboo offers an easy to clean, durable, and stylish surface which is sure to enhance your home. Bamboo is perfect for pet flooring because of it’s scratch-resistant coating and hardness.
Pet Flooring: Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best wood floors for large dogs?
Different flooring lines excel in different areas. We would not consider Oak, Hickory, and Maple flooring to be pet friendly. Solid and Engineered bamboo and eucalyptus are very hard and resist scratching, denting, and gouging but offer no moisture protection. Lastly, our Vinyl flooring is extremely pet-friendly!
How does bamboo flooring holding up to dogs having accidents?
Pet accidents on eucalyptus or bamboo flooring should be cleaned up within a reasonable amount of time. When puddles are cleaned up within an hour, they usually will not cause problems.
What about flooring makes it pet friendly?
Pet-friendly flooring is often easy to wipe up because it has a hard, smooth surface. Additionally, pet flooring features a scratch-resistant topcoat as well as a high janka hardness rating which helps to prevent denting and claw marks.
Pet Flooring: Customer Story
Customer Story Transcript
I’m Jason, this is my wife Michelle and welcome to our home in Reno, Nevada. I posted that I was getting a floor on Facebook and I have a friend in California who also installs floors. He wanted to do a bid for me, and when I told him I was definitely wanting bamboo, he called around and came back to me and said you know Cali Bamboo is the bamboo distributor for the West coast so I can’t beat any of their pricing. Because we have all the animals in the house and the young kids, we needed something more than carpet and the linoleum. I wanted the hardwood floor because with the carpet, it was hard to keep clean with our animals, we do have three dogs, three cats, we’ve got two children and they’re both into sports so there’s a lot of traffic that comes through and it matted the carpet. The carpet matts really bad so this was easy to cleanup, and more durable especially with the animals. It’s very easy, just take the Swiffer®, get the Bona® cleaner out, clean it up and it’s good to go. If the pets have an accident it’s very easy to wipe up. We really do love the Cali Bamboo and we would definitely recommend anybody purchasing it and having Nate from Renew Bamboo install it for them.
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Hi what are the top large dog friendly hardwoods? Looking for water and scratch resistant. Also is the new knotty barrel considered pet friendly?? What would 1700 sqft run for just the material?
Hi Kristy,
Our different flooring lines accel in different areas of pet friendliness. First off, all the oaks, hickory and maple floors are not what we would consider to be pet friendly. Our solid and engineered bamboo and eucalyptus are very hard and resist scratching, denting and gouging but offer no moisture protection. In the wood realm, that leaves the 4 bamboo GeoWood products Copperstone, Aged Amber, Jasperstone and Antique Iron.
Lastly, all of our Cali Vinyl colors are extremely pet-friendly and budget friendly to boot! Hope this helps narrow things down for you!
Best,
Can I use Swiffer wipes to clean my vinyl plank flooring
Hi Nelson,
That should be fine, but keep an eye on it and make sure it’s not building up or hazing the finish. we recommend Bona Laminate and Tile Cleaner.
Hi will bamboo flooring hold up to a wheelchair
Hi Tracy,
I don’t have any first hand experience but we did have someone give our Cali Vinyl a thumbs up for being wheelchair friendly on Lowes.com.
1. which is better for large dogs bamboo or eucalyptus.
2. how does it stand up to a dog having an occasional accident?
3. how do I find out the prices per square foot. We are looking at 2,000 to 2,400
4. what is the shipping fee
thanks
Hi Michelle,
The bamboo and eucalyptus hold up about the same to large dogs, bamboo has a slightly higher Janka hardness rating but they both feature a 10-coat aluminum oxide scratch resistant finish. As long as accidents are cleaned up within a reasonable amount of time (couple hours) it usually doesn’t cause problems. Call us to get pricing and speak to one of our Green Building Experts. Shipping can be one of those surprise costs, a typical flooring order weighs thousands of pounds and is delivered curbside by freight truck. Thankfully (no Thanksgiving punn intended), we frequently run Free Shipping promotions, I think there’s one running right now actually.
Best of luck to you as you begin this exciting project!
Walker
What is it about the flooring, that makes it pet friendly, other than easy to wipe up?
Hi Carl,
Our hardwood floors are very popular with pet owners due to its 10-coat scratch resistance and its extremely high janka hardness and resistance to denting and claw marks. Don’t take my word for it, listen to what our customers have to say about its pet friendliness.