Just bought (from two different stores to make sure it wasn't a lot issue) Wellmade Golden Arowana carbonized strand bamboo flooring. It is supposed to click together - I cannot get the pieces together at all (even tapping doesn't work) The only pieces I could get together are two smaller ones (comes in two lengths) and that was after I scraped the heavy wax off the track edges. Anyone else have this problem? I love the look of the planks - and the price is right (Costco 2.07 sf) but I'm not going to waste my time if they are flawed. I have a call in to the company but so far no one has called me back.

Ive never seen it, Im familiar with wellmade but I can tell you from a cost perspective alone that its not worth buying. Thats half the cost of what it would normally retail maybe even less than than half. Kinda like buying a new car for 8 grand, im sure you can, but you get exactly what you pay for.

I've installed plenty of it. It works under the right conditions. Those conditions are sort of flakey in my opinion. Plus the acclimation instructions from many bamboo manufacturers are mostly misleading and very brief. I'd take it back and get some of the laminate from costco which is actully made by unilin/quickstep/mohawk.

Hi I've been haveing the same problem, the only way it's been working well for me as the more rows I put in the center boards seem to lay flat I'm not a fan of this type of flooring but it was gifted and forced to use it I'm putting in 600sq ft. I just started and I was woundering if any one else had problems with it. If you could let me know if you installed it and was there any tech. You used. I will mentioned that I started in the middle of the room cuz it was the longest and I could put it in straight. the far walls are not straight so I didn't want it to visually look bad.

The old Kahrs heavy composite plastic brick type tapping block, is a must have when doing any rotating lock.

I have done that arrowana twice without any issues.

I am currently installing this flooring (also bought it from Costco) in my kitchen and have the same problems. A tapping block is a necessity - I made my own from a piece of scrap wood. Even after tapping into position and lying flat, a newly installed board will flip up if it is not held down. I am using heavy objects to hold down the most recently installed row, but this slows down the installation and makes if difficult to see the other joints when laying out the next rows.

Many of the boards are very slightly warped, making it more difficult to get them to line up and lie down flat, but with some persuasion with the tapping block, they do go in and look good. Start tapping along the length of the board while it is in the initial tilted position. Press down gently while tapping and you will feel the board slid into position. Keep holding it down and put a weight on it to hold in place before moving on to the next board.

When I get to the far wall and cabinets I will have to rely on the shoe mold and base board to hold the last row down. I strongly recommend removing the base board before installing this product and running the floor boards under the baseboard by at least 1/8 inch. Be sure to use spacers all the way around the perimeter of the floor.

Under the refrigerator (and stove and dishwasher) I will not be installing the flooring all the way to the wall. Most of this area will be a piece of painted OSB or plywood to facilitate moving the refrigerator back and forth. The edge of the bamboo flooring will not be covered by base board to hold it down, so I will screw the edge down. To allow for expansion and contraction, the screw holes will be made into 1-inch slots perpendicular to the length of the board which will allow the board to move under the head of the screw.

In spite of the installation issues, the floor is really beautiful. I will be happy with it if it stays that way. Only time will tell.

I just had the same problem, but with the Cali Bamboo Java Fossilized Wide Click (that stuff sells for over $5 a sqft). Sounds like you had what I was experiencing, too much wax in the joints symptoms. I left my boards to acclimatize just as the company required (sticker stacked and for 3 weeks since I live in a humid area) but the boards still didn't click together and would just pop out when we flattened it to lock. We got some to go together by scraping the wax out, but it was still a struggle. The company gave me the run around and long story short, I ended up returning it (thank God I bought it from Lowe's!).

My sister bought those same floors you have from Costco and didn't have any problems and loves it. One bit of advice I got from many flooring experts as I was going through the Cali Bamboo nightmare, if you are having trouble now, don't install it. Once you install it you are accepting the product and anything that happens down the road will be your responsibility. Only you can know what to do in the end since we are all in cyber space, but I'm happy I returned my floor. I think I was saved from a lot of stress and $ in the future since I'm hearing other's problems and also found some Cali Bamboo samples I got in December that have mold all around it.

Good luck to you!