blue water bamboo floor

It took the contractor a week or so to get back to us with the bid after the walk-thru and assessment of the work I was hoping to have done.  New windows, new fixtures and tile in the bathrooms, and removal of the acoustic ceilings.  All these things were probably never replaced since they were new, back when the house was built in the 60's.  This house needs some serious TLC.  He was able to break it down and itemize the work into a comprehensive list which simplified the perusal which in turn keeps the reader (me) in a calm and content state of mind which in turn allowed me to be more accepting of the string of numbers that represented the total cost at the end of it.  He actually gave us an awesome deal on all the work which he estimated would take him about three weeks to complete if no unexpected mishaps occur.  

After meeting with the contractor last Sunday morning at the bar down the street to sign the contract, I learned that they were going to begin demolition by the end of the week which meant that I needed to choose and purchase the fixtures and tile ASAP.  And we were off to home depot.  I had come across bamboo flooring in bathrooms on HGTV which was a nice eco-friendly solution and thought that placing them in the bathrooms would be a nice test run before replacing the rest of the flooring in the house with them.  It was difficult, however, to get any consistent research information on bamboo flooring from the interwebs.  Many sites said that bamboo flooring, since it is a grass, not wood, is extra susceptible to shrinkage and expansion just from variations of humidity.  Other sites would argue that solid bamboo floors with a top coat of urethane stand more resistant to problems caused by moisture and humidity than some hardwood floors.  Of course, there are different qualities and types of bamboo flooring (ie. naturalized vs. carbonized, horizontal vs. vertical construction, solid vs. engineered) and of course many sites many sites had contrary opinions on these types.  I was leaning toward a solid, horizontal-constructed, bamboo flooring with the special titebond adhesive.  Still, this was the internet talking so we took matters into our own hands and spoke with a flooring salesperson over at a local flooring store.  He disclosed that bamboo flooring is NOT a good idea for highly humid areas such as bathrooms and that we would see "cupping" and swelling of the surface very soon.  Still, this was salesperson who would probably prefer to sell tile flooring since bamboo is fairly inexpensive.  But I was tired of doing research on it  (almost to the point where I seriously considered laying down concrete with a layer of epoxy in the bathrooms) and didn't want to take the risk and I needed to get materials soon so that made the decision easier to go toward tile except now there are many different types of tile and colors to choose from.  Fortunately, E and D were there to lend a helping hand in offering fantastic suggestions and two hours later, we had the majority of the materials chosen.  

If anyone has more information or experience with bamboo flooring, I'm interested in hearing about it.