Green Flooring

Yanchi Bamboo Flooring

Bamboo is an amazingly rugged and versatile species of grass, one of the fastest growing, fastest renewing, and strictly controlled crops in the world. And it is as green as it is beautiful and durable.

Bamboo flooring is a popular choice in flooring that seems almost too good to be true. But, true it is. With Yanchi bamboo, you're getting the unique knuckle patterns you expect and rich natural blonde color known to be harder than many types of hardwood. And with Yanchi, you have your choice of strand-woven, engineered, and stained bamboo, too. Each choice is versatile, allowing you to install bamboo flooring below grade.

What's more, Yanchi Strand-Woven Design and Strand-Woven Fusion bamboo flooring contributes to the following certification under the commercial LEED system:

1. LEED MR Credit 6: Rapidly Renewable Materials: The USGBC has established this requirement to help "reduce the use and depletion of finite raw materials and long cycle materials by replacing them with rapidly renewable materials."

2. LEED IEQ Credit 4.4: Low Emitting Materials: The USGBC has established this requirement to help "reduce the quantity of indoor air contaminants that are odorous, irritating and/or harmful to the comfort and well being of installers and occupants."

For sustainability, versatility, and for a unique look in flooring, choose Yanchi bamboo flooring from BuildDirect.

Yanchi Naturals

Yanchi Naturals give you the basic perspective on beautiful bamboo flooring with the warm tones that come naturally to bamboo. Yanchi Naturals feature the hallmark of bamboo's trademark grain and come in yellows, golds and a variety of light browns.

With our Naturals collection, you get solid planks of the best bamboo floors on the market. Like all our bamboos, Yanchi Naturals are milled to an exacting standard with exceptional color consistency from board to board.

Yanchi Design

Yanchi Design lets you experiment with color. Bold, modern, deep and dark stains that run the gamut from ochre and red to brown and dark chocolate. Yanchi Design offers you an exceptional choice of colors and helps you make the right choice for today's modern interior. Like all our bamboo floors, Yanchi Design is milled to an exacting standard with exceptional color consistency from board to board.

Yanchi Engineered

Yanchi Engineered bamboo floors let you bring the beauty of bamboo to every corner of your home or workplace. Engineered bamboo is a layer of solid bamboo on top of an engineered core. It is identical in look and feel to solid bamboo but offers more versatility as to where it can be installed.

Engineered bamboo is a floating floor so it can easily go anywhere in the home or office and is compatible with radiant heat. Like all our bamboos, Yanchi Engineered is milled to an exacting standard with exceptional color consistency from board to board.

Yanchi Strand Fusion

Yanchi Strand Fusion bamboo is our collection of strand-woven bamboo in natural tones. Strand-woven bamboos are strong and make for some of the densest and hardest floors - significantly harder than maple and twice as hard as oak. Both our Strand Fusion and Strand Design bamboo are made from strands pressed together under intense pressure giving you all the durability of tropical hardwoods but made instead from sustainable bamboo.

Add to that a subtler bamboo grain, similar to the natural marbling you see in hardwoods. It comes in natural hues of yellow, gold and the lighter shades of brown and makes for a striking modern floor. Like all our bamboos, Yanchi Strand Fusion is milled to an exacting standard with exceptional color consistency from board to board.

Yanchi Strand Design

Yanchi Strand Design is our collection of strand-woven bamboo in deep, dark stains. Strand-woven bamboos are strong and make for some of the densest and hardest floors - significantly harder than maple and twice as hard as oak. Both our Strand Fusion and Strand Design bamboo are made from strands pressed together under intense pressure giving you all the durability of tropical hardwoods but made instead from sustainable bamboo.

Add to that a subtler bamboo grain, similar to the natural marbling you see in hardwoods. It comes in deep browns and dark, almost black, chocolates and makes for a striking dark and zen-like floor. Like all our bamboos, Yanchi Strand Design is milled to an exacting standard with exceptional color consistency from board to board.

Evora Cork Flooring

The making of cork flooring is a tribute to old world tradition as much as it is to new millennium green flooring innovation.

For hundreds of years in Portugal, cork oak bark has been removed from cork oak trees by hand, making sure that each tree remains unharmed.

What's more, cork flooring is a second-use application to the wine cork industry. Using the waste of wine cork production, the excess cork is made it into a unique green flooring choice that offers a whole range of practical benefits. So in cork floors, you benefit from a strict harvesting process which values the life and health of each tree, while also gaining the green benefits of a process which produces almost zero wastage.

You can install cork floors in nearly any room, and install them easily thanks to a glueless click locking system. And with the benefits of a uniquely patterned surface that holds in warmth, reduces noise, and cushions impact, it's hard to imagine how much more green you can get while getting all of these practical benefits in one choice of flooring.

Evora Vintage

Reflecting the look of classic cork flooring and something of the flavors of Portugal where it's made, vintage cork is sustainable, and equally practical. Its golden brown surface complements nearly any décor, with a 5-year warranty and a 6mm moisture-proof core that makes it a long-lasting green flooring option.

Evora Napa

Napa cork flooring offers you a geometrically patterned cork floor, its look is matched only by how practical it is for comfort, warmth, impact absorption, and noise reduction in your home or office. Taken from a strictly regulated harvesting process, Napa cork flooring offers a subtle stylistic addition to a space, as well as an environmentally conscious green flooring option.

Evora Mottled

Mottled Evora cork flooring demonstrates that cork production makes the most of its resources. You can see the shapes of the wine corks in each tile, due to cork flooring being a second use of the materials taken from the protected cork oak tree. This is a great example of green flooring made with nearly zero wastage.

Evora Harmony

Harmony cork flooring features some of the most varied patterns in a cork floor surface from Evora, with intricate random patterns that makes for a unique floor every time. Harmony cork flooring retains the feel of Portugal and the artisan approach to preserving the cork oak tree, while producing a practical choice in green flooring.

Evora Cobblestone

For a Southern European countryside feel, Cobblestone cork from Evora lends your space a rural comfort with the feel of natural warmth underfoot that only hand-harvested cork flooring can deliver. Evora Cobblestone cork flooring incorporates an underlayment layer for added comfort and warmth retention.

Glazed Porcelain Tile

Takla glazed porcelain tile is a refined surface that looks natural and is a completely moisture-proof solution in bathrooms, front hallways, laundry rooms, and in kitchens too. With each tile, you get professional precision with every cut, making for a straightforward installation that you can be proud of for years to come.

But besides refined and stylish looks, extremely hard surfaces, and moisture-proof solutions in areas known for excessive wetness, you'll be benefiting from an excellent green flooring option too. Using post-industrial glass ground into the body of each tile, materials which would otherwise have been discarded are reused, making for a denser, high-performance surface.

Takla glazed porcelain tile is an innovative, stylish choice in tile, while also reflecting the latest practices in reusable materials.

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