About Bamboow

What Bamboow Is

Bamboow is a free website of calculators and reference material for people growing, harvesting, building with, or simply curious about bamboo. It covers six areas: projecting a culm’s growth, estimating how much CO₂ a grove sequesters, sizing a flooring job, working out the materials for a bamboo fence, modeling the return on a plantation, and comparing the hardness of different bamboo flooring types. Alongside the tools sits a Museum of Bamboo, a set of illustrated galleries on bamboo species, products, and traditions, and a growing collection of guides and articles.

The site is independent and supported by advertising. There is no subscription, account, or paywall — every tool and page is free to use.

What Bamboow Is Not

Bamboow is not a nursery, a flooring retailer, a construction contractor, or a substitute for one. It does not sell bamboo, plants, or building materials, and it has no affiliation with any bamboo grower, flooring brand, or industry standards body it may reference. Nothing here is professional horticultural, structural-engineering, or financial advice: the growth, carbon, flooring, fencing, and ROI figures produced by the calculators are estimates based on the numbers you enter and on published rates and formulas, not guarantees. Real outcomes depend on your species, soil, climate, materials, and site conditions. For anything structural, or before committing real money to a planting or building project, talk to a qualified arborist, structural engineer, or contractor.

We also don’t collect accounts, sell visitor data, or claim to be some kind of large team or institution — this is a small, focused site built around a specific set of tools, and we’d rather say that plainly than dress it up.

The Tools, Guides, and Museum

The Bamboo Growth Calculatorprojects a culm’s height from a species’ daily growth rate and days of growth (capped at the mature height), plus days to harvest maturity and shoots per year, with presets for Moso, Guadua, Golden, and Black bamboo. The Bamboo Carbon Sequestration Calculator estimates the CO₂ a grove locks away per year and cumulatively, based on grove area, a documented rate of roughly 12 t CO₂/ha/yr, and a chosen time horizon, with per-plant and cars-offset comparisons to make the number easier to picture.

The Bamboo Flooring Calculator divides your floor area by coverage per box, adds a waste allowance, and rounds up to a box count and total cost, with an optional plank count and support for ft² or m². The Bamboo Fence Calculator works out panels from the fence run divided by panel width, posts from panel count or a fixed spacing, and poles for a lashed pole fence, with a gate deduction and a materials-cost total. The Bamboo Plantation ROI Calculator models revenue from culms per hectare and price per culm against running costs and up-front setup, returning net profit, ROI percentage, and a payback year. The Bamboo Hardness Converter lets you look up and compare the Janka hardness of carbonized, natural, and strand-woven bamboo against oak, maple, and hickory, and convert between pounds-force (lbf) and newtons (N) using published values.

Beyond the calculators, the guides and articles go deeper on specific topics in growing, building, and living with bamboo, and the Museum of Bamboois a set of galleries on the living groves and species that shape bamboo, the flooring, furniture, and everyday objects made from culm and fibre, and the buildings, art, and traditions bamboo has grown into across cultures — every entry, image, and fact there is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Questions, corrections, or a tool that doesn’t behave the way you expect? See Contact.