You could have posted on your old thread rather than starting a new one. Just a suggestion. That way all the information would be in one place.

Let me condense my answer. I first installed bamboo back in 1995.

I've seen a lot of brands and a few manufacturers come and go over the years.

I've seen flooring with a bamboo veneer and softwood underplies. Most of those tend to cup.

Some are 100% bamboo. They tend to be more stable.

The best I've seen to date, with a history, a track record, and with what I deem a solid future, is Teragren.

I've glued it and stapled it.

I've installed natural (which I also have in a part of my own house, 8 years ago, kids playroom, and looking great) and carbonized.

Very happy, no complaints. No odors, no off-gassing.

Mongo

Thanks Mongo; very helpful.

CLG: I didn't think that worked on this forum. Sorry!

1. Where did you buy your flooring? (e.g., Home Depot, BuildDirect.com, etc.)

We bought at Lowes, special order and waited till they were having 20% off of SO flooring. We could have bought the same from Simple Floors for a better per sq ft price, but the freight cost would have brought the total price much much higher.

2. What brand did you buy (e.g., Teragren, Morning Star, etc.)

For the life of me I don't find a "brand" name on any of the boxes.

3. What color type did you buy: natural, carbonized/carmelized, or stained?

We got stained, Jacobean. It's almost black

4. What type did you buy: horizontal, vertical, woven strand, or engineered?

Horizontal

5. What is your flooring installed over? (e.g., below-grade slab, above-grade slab, OSB sub-floor, etc.)

Above grade, what ever that pressed chopped up wood stuff is. (like my grasp of the technical terms?)

6. Did you let the flooring acclimate to your local humidity before installation? (i.e., took it out of the boxes and made sure each piece was exposed for several days.)

Some yes, but we ran out of acclimated planks to finish the job and used some that wasn't and it's a problem. The unacclimated creaks something fierce.

7. Who installed it? You (mention your level of experience), a handy friend, or a contractor?

My husband and I are installing it. It is our first flooring project. It's labor intensive and at points challenging, but a simple rectangular room really shouldn't pose too big of problem if you are willing to learn and patient enough to think things through before charging ahead. We are installing it throughout our entire house. So far the most challenging space was our upstairs hallway as their are five doorways, a tiny closet and the bannister of the stairway as well as the top stair nose for the hall landing. We are hiring a flooring expert to come and tutor/babysit us for the staircase next weekend. We will do the work, we just want supervision.

8. Did you put an additional coating on your floor at the time of installation? If so, what kind?

No additional coating.

9. How long have you lived on the flooring?

Youngest daughter's room was done in April, the rest of the upstairs has been completed within the past two weeks. We had supply issues with Lowes.

10. What type of traffic does the room get?

Youngest daughter is six and has very hard toys (legos, polly pockets, sweet streets etc) and they hit the floor pretty regularly, and we've had no damage. We don't wear shoes in our house and we don't have pets.

11. Are you happy with the floor?

Love love love it, and can't wait to finish the downstairs.

12. If you're not happy with it, please name specific problems.

The only problems we have had are supply issues with Lowes. The folks in my Lowes have been nothing but polite and professional, it's the suppliers. The stairnoses have been ordered 7 times now. Six times they arrived damaged, four times with the wrong finish on them. Hence the long wait between the first room and the remainder of the upstairs being completed. We needed to be sure that we would be able to get the stair nose pieces before we committed any further effort into the project.

Here's a photo of our hallway. I haven't finished the shoe molding or touched up the trim painting. Seems like the project will never end.

Here is a link that might be useful: