16 Best Engineered Hardwood Flooring In Java (2023 Updated)

Had this flooring professionally installed in one room. I can’t yet speak to its durability or long term performance, but so far it looks nice. The planks are thin, much thinner than the engineered hardwood flooring I have in other parts of my house.

I finally got my floor that I have been looking for since last year. They match perfectly to what I have through out my home.

CaliBamboo Customer service is very helpful and was able to assist me in finding a floor i loved. I am very happy with the purchase. I’ve had the install for a couple months. I have notice a couple light scratches here and there but these floors very durable.

I’ve dropped metal tools (nothing very heavy) and didnt see any damage. I’d say my only complaint has more to due with the process of getting the floors and getting the floors installed. They referred me to a company called Installation made easy which paired me up with a local company.

The local company made a few mistakes early in the process but was able to correct them and ultimately did a great job. One of the issues is I wish there was a better way for the two(three if you include IME) to communicate for materials and such.

I ended up having to go with quarter rounds and transition pieces that look similar but not the same as my bamboo to complete the install. Another thing is Id have liked to have suggested to me to have the materials shipped to the installer instead of my location as I ended up having to carry all the boxes with myself and a friend and.

it was quite a days work since each box weighed around 50 lbs. ! ouch Aside from those issues, the project came out great. The floor itself looks really good and I’m very happy with the results.

If the cost of shipping wasn’t an issue and I had more time I would have returned my purchase. I had gotten a sample and did not see the same poor quality as in my order. I contacted the sales person I purchased from and was told that the imperfections were part of the way this flooring was made.

Looked like wash board, chatter marks, or ripples in every board. Would not recommend the engineered hickory flooring. Make sure if you want this you look real close at your sample piece. I almost feel like they had a run of bad product and put it on sale.

Very happy with my floors. I love the deep rich stain colors. I have 2 cats that run and slide all over my floors. They are holding up very well. Easy to clean with just a damp microfiber mop.

I ordered 1,300 sq ft. It arrived on time and in good condition. I just finished one room and I’m very pleased with the quality. I really like the variations in color and textures along with the random lengths.

For those who haven’t installed floors of this type, there’s a good video on “How Not To. ” On YouTube, which is very helpful. Also, I used the Pergo Gold Underlayment. It is the folding type and is much easier than using rolls.

Also I’d recommend using Titebond tongue and groove glue.

We bought this product because it is supposed to be a strong floor. It scratches VERY easily. Not just small scratches, deep and non-repairable scratches. I am very careful and put felt under all legs of furniture.

This is the worst flooring I have every purchased. I also only use Bona products like they suggested. The cleaner makes the floor look very dull unless you use the high gloss formula on the floor. Then you had better be very careful when you walk due to the slip factor.

We did LOADS of research and read reviews and unfortunately we are super disappointed in our new floors. They scratch SO EASILY, there is no way they are pet proof. We haven’t even moved in yet and there are loads of scratches that, while they aren’t deep, look awful and are not easily covered.

I’m terrified of what this is going to look like after we actually move in 🙁 Unfortunately for us we did the entire downstairs and loft area in treehouse solid bamboo. We were also bummed that we got multiple samples and the flooring does not look like them :/ we have kids, and I’m already fighting the urge to hound them constantly about the floors, I want to LIVE in my home and let the kids be kids… but I know I’ll pay for it in big marks across our floors :(.

Let me start by saying that the flooring is great. It looks great and the installer recommended by Cali was excellent. The job went off without a hitch, and it looks great. The delivery is to the curb and needs to rest in the house a few days before install.

If you have a pallet jack handy, you are all set. If not, you are still on your own to get the boxes of flooring from the curb to the house. Do not expect any assistance from the delivery company.

Don’t use floor adhesive with this product. In one room I used adhesive and flooring would slip out of its locking design and had multiple gaps as a result. In another room did not use adhesive and stayed locked together.

We installed our floors in Nov/Dec 2018 and still love them. (Writing this in Sept 2021. ) The color is gorgeous. When first installed, they had a kind of waxy coating that looked smudged as soon as anyone walked on them with bare feet.

Over the course of 4-5 months of regular use and cleaning, that went away. For cleaning we have only ever used a damp cloth. (We use a “Sh-Mop” which is a flat head with a cotton terry cloth cover. It works great.

) The wax was also an signification factor/issue in installation. About half of the planks required manually scraping extra wax out of the grooves so that they would snap together properly. The floors do chip/dent/scratch and we have quite a few places–mainly in the kitchen, but they are not really noticeable.

I noticed the review opportunity when looking for ideas to repair some chips. We are generally careful to clean up spills promptly but there are always little splashes in a heavily used kitchen, but with the exception of one chipped spot, we have seen no evidence of water damage even around the sink or fridge which get the most wet.

One of our larger chips is near the dishwasher and that one has been impacted. We should have tried to repair it sooner, as it has gotten worse. I’ve included a photo of it as the moisture has caused the surface to start to lift.

Other chips in the house do not have this issue. Our main word of warning is for people installing over radiant heat. We have a concrete slab with radiant heat. We brought the newly purchased flooring inside, opened the packing and let it acclimate for recommended time (it was Nov and we are in the Pacific Northwest, so our heated floors were ON.

) The floors were installed with the recommended gap from the wall to allow for expansion/contraction. Over the next several years, what we have found is that the floors continually SHRINK. They contracted and shrunk A LOT.

We have had to remove baseboards and add flooring in MANY MANY MANY places throughout the house. Even some of the places where we added wood have shrunk more. We are not sure if it’s the radiant floors as they do not expand in the summer when the concrete underneath is much cooler.

It may be they are just continually more dried out than in a normal house. However, if we were doing it again, we would install with a very very small expansion gap at the edges. The noticable shrinkage has continued over YEARS so just letting them acclimate a couple of weeks longer than recommended would not have done the trick.

I bought five cartons of Fossilized Mocha Bamboo Engineered wide click flooring from Lowe’s. I just got done laying it and it is quite beautiful. Be aware that if you buy the flooring from Lowe’s you can expect zero help from Cali Bamboo.

I got ghosted on email queries to customer support. No one returned telephone messages that I left. There were very long waits for online chats and they almost always ended abruptly once I made it know that I purchased my flooring at Lowe’s.

A beautiful floor, but very disappointing customer service and support.

Ty at Cali Bamboo was a great help in selecting the proper floor and getting it delivered when I wanted it. Pricing was comparable to the big box stores with the added bonus of being able to talk to someone who knows their product and can provide a wealth of information and assistance as you order your floor.

I ordered an engineered bamboo floor. It came shrink wrapped and in excellent condition. Ty provided details on taking care of any shipping damage, fortunately there was none. The floor itself is an excellent product.

It went down easily and looks fantastic. This is the fifth click together floor I have put down, the other 4 were laminates. I’d tell anyone to consider this if you are looking at laminates. It is much better engineered and looks real because it is real wood.

Excellent product I’m sure anyone would appreciate.

Ordered 1000sqft delivery was smooth. Beautiful product. Installation went well. Adds a warmth to the rooms

We’ve just installed this hickory engineered hardwood and it looks fantastic! The where layer is pretty thick, the quality is very good. We really like it. Time will tell if it holds up but I don’t see any reason why it shouldn’t.

Very pleased with this purchase.

I bought this to replace water-damaged hardwood floor. My expectation wasn’t high, I just wanted to fix the floor as cheaply and quickly as possible. Turned out, this product is genuinely great. Installation is easy (make sure to do the proper prep work), quality of material is quite good, too.

I was surprised by how much I liked it, even over the original floor. I should also mention that it’s proven to be quite durable, too, which was another surprise. Overall, I’m very impressed, it’s a very rare thing nowadays – cheep and cheerful.

If you install floors professionally, installing this wood would be no problem. My husband and I decided to glue this floor down (recommended by a contractor). It is extremely time-consuming and very messy.

If you get any glue on the floor, it is next to impossible to remove. If you are patient and very strong, consider this flooring. If you’re not, go with a floating floor! The floor does look beautiful, though.

I like the color and the texture. It is a bit light, so it needs more cleaning, but it keeps the house bright.

I am absolutely very satisfied with how my floors look and so pleased that I purchased this hardwood plank.

We were skeptical, but it is a beautiful finish and great quality.

Beautiful flooring! Great quality, customer service, and easy shipping.

Initially I received a bunch of boxes with pre-damaged flooring planks, that predominantly being smashed corners and also deep scratches in the planks. The certified flooring Techs from Halifax Flooring kept throwing out bad pieces and showing me the damage right from the box.

This was extremely concerning & frustrating. I would have given y’all a zero star as of then, maybe even a kick in the trousers. Ryan with Cali Bamboo addressed these frustrating concerns and went above and beyond in fixing these QA problems with the damaged product, and found a suitable remedy for the frustration, damages, and shorted inventory to finish the job.

I think y’all need to give Ryan a nice pat on the back, perhaps even a nice bonus or promotion as a merci beaucoup for keeping the customer very happy in a difficult situation. Attah boi Ryan, job well done!! With these dilemmas being addressed properly and consequently pushed out of mind, overall the Cali Geowood is a very beautiful product indeed.

Very lovely flooring with the unbeatable natural look and solid well built density easily outdoing any synthesized pseudo LVP fake patterns any day of the darn week. Room for improvement: I would have imagined the finishing oxide coat to be more scratch resistant to be completely honest.

The floor does scratch much easier than expected. With that being said, finding a way to increase a resin seal of this lovely product with an even stronger finish would make this a world class piece.

Great work and I wish y’all the best, thanks!.

I am general contractor who overall loves CALI BAMBOO flooring materials but I am doing a home right now where I’m in process of doing every room in house except the bathrooms and bedrooms. I have completed the large den almost 300 sq.

ft. and I have to say this aged amber geowood floor is the worst I’ve ever touched and installed from cali bamboo. I have had several pieces damaged from opening box for starters but that another story as far as a installers stand point it has been nothing but slow to work with and is not flexible in anyway shape or form ( installers no what I mean ).

It scratches so easily it is straight up nerve racking. I am a contractor who typically really enjoys all the cali bamboo flooring project I do BUT SO FAR not one minute have I with this flooring. It does not go together that easily first of all, then you got the whole scratching process to deal with throughout the job, then as far as when your cutting out the door jamb’s and casing trim for flooring to slide underneath and then having to lock it together NOT SO MUCH ( ROUGH ).

I have taken a break from this project for almost two months now due to other reasons once the Den was completely finished then home owner had some things come up as did I but were both on same page and im getting ready to start back there very soon to install the living room,kitchen,pantry,family room and some closets and I have to say im not looking forward to it at all.

I have so many sample pieces of Cali Bamboo flooring that I share with my customers and help them along in the picking out process and as of right now I will be removing this Oak and Bamboo Geowood flooring out of my sample box.

We had GeoWood bamboo floors installed a year ago in Anchorage, Alaska where we have no climate control during the summers (temps got over 90F last summer) and radiant heat during the winter which dries the house out considerably.

Even so, the flooring has held up beautifully. We have 3 kids and a Labrador retriever who are all hard on floors. There have been no scratches due to claws, and toys, dishes and appliances have been dropped many times and very little scratching.

Any scratches are quickly and seemingly permanently hidden with a little Old English. Our installer had never used GeoWood or any Cali product and said we needed to write a review to let people know how easy the installation was, especially relative to other floating floors he had installed.

Do be careful of water damage. We chose GeoWood for its water resistance, but it isn’t totally waterproof. We had it installed throughout the kitchen and one spot where I have a floor mat got moisture under the mat that sat for a couple of days and there is a little bit of lightening of the wood on the seam of two of the planks where water penetrated.

But if you didn’t know it was there you wouldn’t notice. After a full year of everyday wear and tear, kids coming in and out from snow and ice and no special “babying” of the floors they still look like new.

We would recommend GeoWood bamboo floors to anyone looking for a beautiful, durable wood floor.

I bought and installed this about a month ago in my family room. I am so impressed with this floor and color. I have gotten many compliments on the floor even from the installers since they were waiting for about two months for it to arrive.

It just had to be right in every aspect as I was not going to settle for anything less. Even though it’s a root plant, the wood is just spectacular. When walked on everyone is surprised that it’s bamboo.

Living in Florida but raised on an island and my first raft was made of bamboo. If it was strong enough to withstand saltwater, very hot sun and humidity and lasted forever, I couldn’t go wrong with this.

I plan to use the same flooring throughout my home. Absolutely Beautiful!.

I purchased the solid wide plank flooring. This is the hardest material I have ever seen in my life. I live in a older home and it was a diy project. Trust me if you do not have experience laying multiply flooring definitely get a professional installation.

It takes a special flooring nailer and special flooring nail. However I was able to use my finish nail gun with a 18 gauge nails and shoot in the tongue. Now about the customer service representative Carlee.

She was outstanding and had the most knowledge of anyone we have spoke on the phone with in years!! Had my wife call about a transition strip. It only took her a matter of minutes and she was able to give me exactly the dimensions and arriving a few days later was exactly what she specifically told me on every detail.

I have to say how impressive this was. If I could give the customer service representative 10 stars I would. Now the flooring. It is a beautiful product after being installed. The look and feel of the floor in my bathroom is amazing.

And when they say waterproof it is no surprise to see water bead up and either stay until cleaned up or until it evaporates. This stuff does not absorb water through the finish at all. Greatest flooring ever.

Not just because of the product but because the customer service representative was so great we plan on doing another bathroom, kitchen and utility room in bamboo flooring. Thank you Call Bamboo for being a company like we used to have years ago.

I sure miss places like you guys where your products are great but your service is outstanding.

Let me start of by saying these floors look absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, if you so much as stare too long at this floor it will ding and scratch. This wood is very soft and will dent if you drop anything on it (even from a foot off the ground).

If you have pets do not get this floor. We’ve had to purchase large rugs in every room to cover up these great looking floors.

This teak flooring is amazing! Love that it is 5″ wide. When installed, your eye does not notice the “seems” of the flooring and instead focuses on the visual texture in the color variations. We Love the color variations! We picked it up from a local warehouse, utilizing the cost saving shipping method BuildDirect offers.

This may have been our only issue thus far. We were scheduled to pick this item up on a day of cold pouring rain in WI. The pallets were nicely wrapped in plastic, but we did have to break one pallet down to fit our trailer and the guys at the local warehouse were very helpful and loaded the pallets as best they could on our trailer, with their forklifts.

(I should mention the shipper BuildDirect would have provided would not make the delivery on our road, as it is a narrow road with no turn around available for them. Which we understood, as we have lived in our residence for more than 10 years so it wasn’t really a surprise to us.

) We just completed the install of 2 rooms in our home. There is next to no waste, and we had 6 doorways to contend with for our first attempt at flooring. We have not had one piece “damaged” that we have had to place in a scrap pile to use as a salvage piece.

We have utilized EVERY single piece in our shipment so far. We believe this HARD hardwood flooring was worth every penny, and probably should have cost WAY more had we purchased it from a local flooring center.

We liked that it was pre-finished and were able to move the furniture back into our rooms upon completion. We would buy this product again, but we bought enough to complete our ENTIRE house with this purchase.

We saved thousands of dollars!.

This flooring has completely transformed my home! My customer service rep Mila Quinn was awesome. The samples I received sealed my choice for this selection. This was a 1 day installation for my entire first floor.

Thanks so much once again I’ll definitely purchase again for the stairs and upstairs hallway.