Are Bamboo Floors Soft

Bamboo flooring can be as soft as pine and harder than maple depending on the species of bamboo used and when it was harvested. Teragren specifies only Optimum 5.5 Moso bamboo harvested at maturity (five and a half to six years) when fiber density peaks.

Is bamboo floor hard?

Strand woven bamboo flooring is by far the hardest and most durable type of bamboo flooring. It is over twice as hard as Oak and rates at 15.8kN on the Janka Hardness Scale.

Is bamboo soft wood or hardwood?

Although it is commonly grouped with hardwood flooring, bamboo is not actually a wood, but rather a woody grass. Bamboo, a native plant to tropical regions with heavy rainfalls, grows much faster than hardwood and has a different cellular structure.