16 Best Hardwood Floors For Big Dogs (2022 Updated)

I was looking for some padding to go over cement floors in our home gym to help absorb some impact from my workouts. After reading reviews I decided I would try these. Overall, they work well and do their job.

The cushion is perfect, just enough to absorb the impact and not get in the way. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is because it does move slightly during some (not all) moves. I was hoping it would be heavy enough to stay without needing adhesive.

I think it will work, I will just be fixing it after use. In all, I’m happy with them and for the price it makes for a good value.

3/8 thickness is perfect. We have a bumpy wood flooring in our barn that we are converting to home gym. When rolled out, this easily hid the imperfections. Rolls out well and lays flat pretty instantly.

No funky odor to either. Pretty heavy, didn’t slide around at all. The company called and notified they didn’t have enough of our color and they were very accommodating to find us another color. 100% would order again.

Very low odor but hard to clean. Dust gets stuck in the crevices of the rubber. Vaccuum and mopping does the trick but some particles are left behind that you can see stuck in the rubber. Otherwise love these for the gym.

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.

IšverstiShow in original languageWe had this flooring installed not too long ago. We love the color and the destressed look of the floor. I know that some people do not like to see knots or destressing, it looks like real wood not like laminate, but we love it and we love the wide plank.

Looking forward to enjoying the floor for many years.

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.

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.

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.

Already received multiple complements on the floor. The color, texture and the fact it’s waterproof made it the ideal choice for a beach house remodel. It’s not as scratch resistant as the solid bamboo floors, and moving heavy objects across it might leave a mark if done without care, but the dog that refuses nail trims has been doing his usual dances on it without leaving a trace.

Can’t wait to try out another style for the next project.

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.

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

So we’re getting close to six months with the solid Java bamboo flooring, and it is just the most amazing flooring. It’s gorgeous for starters—we just love the tone, and the variation, from plank to plank and within them.

It also seems like it’ll last for 300 years. We have three energetic dogs, and we have yet to spot any signs of wear or scratching. We had engineered hardwood before, and our dogs just trashed those floors.

Also I can’t say enough about Cali. Steve Crane was fantastic to work with, and helped us to figure out precisely what we needed. We did have a few issues, and Steve and Cali got them resolved and really took care of us.

We also got the matching quarter rounds, which are very sharp, but they are trickier to install. This is probably common sense for more experienced installers, but you have to make sure they don’t glue the quarter rounds to a floating floor.

We had to pull some up, and made the mistake of acting too quickly (better to let the glue dry for a day), so we ended getting some markings on the finish. But we had more than enough to correct the most obvious areas and all is well now.

That’s probably one of the few ways that you can actually damage this flooring, because everything else, from dogs to wheeled chairs to daily wear & tear, isn’t touching them. We ended up installing the quarter rounds with pin nails, which mostly works well.

We also feel great about the flooring being low-VOC and more sustainable, particularly because this was very big project—we did just about the entire house. So for us the solid Java checks all the boxes.

But more than anything else, it looks great, and we can live on it; we don’t feel like we have to tiptoe around. Highly recommended!.

This was my third experience with Cali Bamboo solid bamboo flooring, the first being professionally installed, the second and third being installed by myself. After the first set of flooring had been installed in the dining room and hallways for a couple of years and showing no perceptible wear or damage, I decided to expand to the office with the same result.

The third installation was three more rooms. Since the distressed is no longer available I switched to the regular Java which has slightly more sheen, but is a perfect color match, hardly noticeable even at the transitions.

The installation is fairly straight forward with only some cutouts around obstacles being difficult. I am once again impressed with the look and quality of the product and the staff is as always, very helpful.

I would definitely recommend both the company and the product.

We love the product not only did we do in one home but we didn’t the second home we bought and they were so great to work with so understanding even if there was a little mistake they made it impossible to even recognize it they fixed it in a hurry Great company to work with.

We bought this flooring for our kitchen renovation and couldn’t be happier. It is a beautiful floor and we have gotten lots of compliments from our friends and family who have seen it.

Wonderful flooring, great quality. Everyone who sees it comments on the beauty of it.

I love this flooring. It is beautiful. We put it in our front living room 16+ years ago and I still get compliments on how bestir looks. We had an appraisal done and he could not believe the shape the floor was being that many years old.

We just put the same floor in our dining room. Love it!.

This is the second purchase of this product. Quality and finish stayed high. I just would like more long pieces in each box. I will buy again even if the boards don’t get longer.

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.