Bamboo Flooring

Bamboo flooring is a breathtaking alternative to hardwood timber floors. Plantation grown bamboo saves our ancient forests and is one of the world's oldest building materials, and one of the fastest growing plants known to man!
Bamboo flooring is stronger and more resilient to indentation and scuffing than many native woods, but with the same look and feel.

Why Choose Bamboo for Flooring?

• Environmentally sustainable – Style Plantation Bamboo Flooring is an attractive alternative to hardwood floors, and is the product derived from the forests of a fully sustainable, environmentally friendly and rapidly growing renewable resource.
• Easy installation – Bamboo Flooring compares favourably with traditional solid select timber floors and given it is already sanded and finished with six durable Treffert or Klummp UV coatings. Style Plantation products are capable of being quickly installed ready for use with minimal disruption.
• Coupled with its price advantage, bamboo floors are creating significant interest for their aesthetics and other performance qualities over existing hard wood alternatives. In summary, bamboo flooring provides a highly competitive product for both domestic and commercial applications.
• Style Plantation Bamboo Floors are abrasion resistant and have excellent horizontal surface friction (non-slip).
• Bamboo flooring is allergy free
• Style Plantation bamboo floorboards are sealed with non-toxic glues and are finished with aluminium oxide.
• Style Plantation offers a wide range of colours and are consistent through to the core except in the instances where surface stains are used to achieve the colour.
• Bamboo floors have high UV resistance, blocking the sun's harmful rays and protecting the floor.
• Excellent warranty protection. The manufacturer warrants Style Plantation Bamboo Flooring in the original manufactured state free from structural defects (Structural Warranty) for 10 years in residential applications and 5 years for commercial uses. The manufacturer warrants to the original purchaser that the wear layer (Coating Warranty) of aluminium oxide will not peel or separate from the flooring plank in residential applications for 5 years.
• Easy repairs, since damaged bamboo floorboards can be replaced without contrasting with the pattern of surrounding boards.
• Easy cleaning, most spills can be cleaned up with a mop or sponge. To read more about how to maintain your bamboo floor, click here.
• Very low emissions through waste and pollution; the result is a very environmentally friendly product.
• Endless design options
• Style Plantation Bamboo Floors are very hard and durable
• STYLEBOARD ™ Strand woven bamboo flooring technology is retardant against termites, fire, sunlight, chemical stains, scuffing and indentation.
• Finally, the natural beauty and durability of bamboo flooring far surpasses traditional hardwood floors.

However, above all these extraordinary features are quite simply the look of bamboo flooring. When you walk into a room floored in bamboo you truly do catch your breath. There is a quality, warmth and feel created entirely by the floor itself. Before choosing flooring, you really need to see bamboo for yourself.

SOARING ENERGY prices make solar electricity even more of a smart investment. Yet despite being the sunniest continent on earth, Australia is falling behind the rest of the world in our use of solar panels.

Grid connect solar system
Solar panels are connected to the main electricity grid through power inverters. Solar cells (photovoltaic cells) are made of thin wafers of silicon covered by a strong glass coating, protecting these cells from the elements.
As the light falls on the panels it knocks electrons about and electricity is produced. A group of these cells make up a module which make up a solar panel.
Solar panels then absorb light (photons) and produce electricity, similar to how photosynthesis works in leaves and trees—absorbing light, making the plant grow.
A solar panel is similar as the panels of the roof absorb light to produce electricity. The panels create DC electricity, like the electricity in car batteries and is not the sort used in households.
· A small box (the inverter) converts this DC electricity into AC240vac for your home to be used straight away.
· No change is required to your power outlets for solar power to be used in your home
· You don’t always need the sun. Solar power doesn’t work on heat absorption, just light. Energy is produced even on cloudy days.
· When you are not generating solar power, like at night, you can supplement the power with electricity off your main power grid.
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SolarBrick solar paving light
A UNIQUE SOLUTION for illuminating your landscaped areas, the solar brick paving light is fantastic for the environment.
Self contained, waterproof and easy to install. The light source is a LED that turns on automatically and is able to stay on for more than 12 hours from a fully charged ultracapicator.
Available in a range of colours and sizes and has many benefits. Eg, lasts more than 10 years and UV protected and scratch resistant, no expensive wiring required, super strong polycarbonate housing. For more information visit Hotbeam
Important Footnote
According to the recent edition of Choice magazine, changes to the federal government’s rebate for solar panels are likely to increase the cost of installing a solar PV system. Week feed-in tariff schemes discourage the uptake of solar panels.