What brand of glue is used in bamboo floating floors to glue the toungue and groove?

Check with the bamboo manufacturer, but most wood manufacturers, recommend Titebond II or Titebond III, along with their own glue.

I have the same question and came across this post in a search. My manufacturer does call for Titebond, but my question is - is there a difference between Titebond I, II, or III and which should I use?

Also, all of the Titebond glues I have seen are yellow and my understanding (also from searching other posts on this forum) is that white glues , not yellow glues, are what you want for the T&G glue on a floating floor. Thoughts?

Thanks as always for the help.

I tried to go to Franklin International's website and it wouldn't load? I tried Titebond's website, and it too, wouldn't load??

Titebond I, is not water resistent

Titebond II is water resistent

Titebond III is water proof, and think it is a urethane, but I was trying to get to their website to confirm it, but could not.

so any idea which one would be best to use in a bamboo floated T&G installation? Thanks again.

Call the bamboo manufacture and ask them what they require!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Don't get me lying to you. Get it straight "from the horses mouth".

Somebody with experience might ask if this is a solid bamboo.

Most manufactures of solid say NOT to float! Some say you can but only with an extreme amount of experience and even then I won't do it. Glue it or nail it.

That is one of the reasons I directed them to the manufacturer. When they ask, the manufacturer might tell them, they don't recommend floating their floor.

Common professional knowledge is that solid does not get floated, period.

Why is that I wonder?

Anyone?

Not that many real engineered bamboo floors out there. Another common misconception is that some bamboo called engineered by a few is well actually solid bamboo but that the lower layers are crossed. And that is supposed to stabllize it?

Yes ?

No?

Maybe?

Yes, the manufacture knows what can be done with their products to have a satisfactory, installation, that last for a long time. So you don't get "hardknees"

So your saying that crossing the lower layers (parquet fashion0 with the same species makes it stable and this is called an engineered product eh? Really?

Bamboo is one of those unusual products that defies typical terminology. In flooring terms, "solid flooring" means milled from one piece of wood and/or not veneered. You can have finger-jointed planks and still be a solid. An engineered floor typically refers to a wood floor that has at least two plies and is cross-plied.
Bamboo is always constructed of plies (strips in this case) but often, the plies are always going in the same direction and are NOT cross-plied, therefore, it isn't a true "engineered" because it isn't cross plied but it isn't a solid either. Some bamboo IS cross-plied and would be considered an engineered floor.