Re: [Florida-Bamboo] Re: Keeping the Black Boo BLACK

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In a message dated 2/11/2009 1:36:55 PM Central Standard Time, jrog...@tampabay.rr.com writes:

Bamboo is difficult to stain.  But that’s what makes it great as a flooring

 

Perhaps bamboo is "hard to stain" because most modern and "ecofriendly" paints and stains are water based ? ? ?   Well aged and cured   Bamboo  does NOT absorb water readily (which is another reason it makes good flooring-- ever had you WOOD flooring flooded, when the fill tube to your commode broke and flooded the house over the weekend you were gone ? ?)..    

            Perhaps if one used some "olde fashioned" stain, which used a  volatile solvent as the carrier, I suspect it would work much better.    (Wash my  mouth out with Ecofriendly Lye soap. )...  

            For 'pseudo'  Black bamboo, I just use off the shelf, black liquid shoe dye.   If one looks closely one can still find such that is NOT water based.   NOW, I know why some of the brands didn't work, well.    It was water based and just beaded up on the culms.   Now I DO NOT sand, to get past the was layer,  like Roy does::  I'm WAY too lazy for that...

 

My best shot, from Central TExas.                 Kinder

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