Mynwife and I ordered 800 square feet of flooring, glue, and underlayment fromnCali Bamboo on November 1, 2010 (order #159132). We bought the flooring for anfloating, glue-together installation. We were excited about the flooringit’snbeautiful, extremely durable, and comes from a highly renewable source. We received ournorder on November 9. Per instructions, we placed the boxes of bamboo in ournhome, open and stacked in a criss-cross pattern. We let the flooring acclimatenfor six days. Our installer began work on November 15. He immediatelynnoticed that the boards had a slight banana bow that made it difficult to fitnthem together without some gapping (about 1/32″). He recommended we gonwith a nail-down installation at considerable added cost. We asked him tonconsult with Cali. He called Cali to and spoke with an installation specialist
nwho dissuaded him from nailing down the flooring and told him to use bluenpainter’s tape to hold the boards together until the glue dried. He did
andnthe flooring went down with minimal gapping (again
about 1/32″” ton1/16″” between boards). This concerned me
but I decided to live with thengaps as the flooring is gorgeous. We left to visitnfamily in California on Thanksgiving. We were gone 10 days. When we returned