June 2010

Will summer be back? No doubt about it we think, but what a glorious two weeks we had in May. On the other hand, we do need some rain once in a while.

But enough about the weather, lets talk about the wonderful versatile world of natural wooden flooring.

Maintaining a wooden floor is simple, it's one of the many benefits this natural floor covering gives you. Only once every 5 to 6 months you need to apply a suitable liquid polish to keep it healthy and beautiful, and job done!

All of our contacts receive a simple reminder about the benefits of maintenance every 6 months, a little extra service from us. We're all busy people and sometimes it's easy to forget the last time you treated your floor to some TLC was 6 months ago!

Would you like to join the "Easiest Maintenance Program - ever!" where you won't even have to remember to order the products for your floor in time? Once every year we'll dispatch (per courier) the number of products you need for two treatments.

All you have to do, once!, is to select the most appropriate program we offer now - and we'll take care of the rest.
For your convenience we've split the program options in 3 groups:

1. oiled floors
2. matt lacquered floors
3. semi-gloss lacquered floors

and all with their most appropriate cleaning and polish products.
We can't make easy maintenance easier than this!

Rules and regulations, we all encounter them, if we like it or not. The VOC regulations to reduce the amount of Volatile Organic Compounds in products is there for a very good reason: reducing negative effects some compounds have on the environment and some times even our own health.

"Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) refers to organic chemical compounds which have significant vapor pressures and which can affect the environment and human health. VOCs are numerous, varied, and ubiquitous. Although VOCs include both man-made and naturally occurring chemical compounds, it is the anthropogenic VOCs that are regulated, especially for indoors where concentrations can be highest. VOCs are typically not acutely toxic but have chronic effects. Because the concentrations are usually low and the symptoms slow to develop, analysis of VOCs and their effects is a demanding area." (source - wikipidea)

These regulations take their time to be passed on to the public, manufacturers have to be allowed to find suitable alternatives for some compounds in order for the product to still do "what it says on the tin".
That's why - like now - a whole bunch of well-known products are disappearing from the shelves and are replaced with other, more "greener" products.

Only one month remains for two Lecol products frequently used with design parquet (new installation or restoring): from the end of June 2010 Lecol5500 (parquet adhesive) and Lecol7500 (wood-filler) will no longer be produced or even shipped from the manufacturer. We have a limited stock left at the moment, when that's gone it's gone!

(Update 01.06.10, after the newsletter was emailed out to 1290 subscribers: Please note, as we've been told by Lecol UK, these specific EU VOC regulations are ratified for The Dutch and Belgium market. In/for the UK market both products will still be available. Only not through Wood You Like Ltd once our stock is gone.)

We are replacing this with:
F.Ball B91 and F.Ball B92 for parquet adhesive (available in 7.5 and 15kg tubs)
Pallman's Pall-x-Kitt wood-filler (5 ltr cans)

Also, introducing a brand new product in our range of oils which replaces, for starters, the Euku Oil1 as best finish for tropical wood floors (finished on site that is). Again, due to changes in VOC regulations the "old" Euku Oil1 had to go, but in our opinion the replacement Euku Oil 1 HS did not do the same job as well.

Saicos Coating Systems introduced us to their Color Wax Clear Extra Thin, which is especially suited to treat tropical wood. Only 1 coat needed, to be finished with only 1 coat of Premium HardWaxOil natural. Both products are available in small tins, so could come in very handy for those restoring existing tropical design parquet floors.
You will no doubt hear more about Saicos product range in future newsletters and/or FAQ & News items. All products from Saicos are of course eco friendly EU VOC 2010 compliant

For more information and up to date prices see our online shop or give us a call on 01233 - 713725 to discuss your requirements

Besides new products: there are times and places where products of long standing and original methods truly come into their own as one of our emailers discovered: Why Old Methods Still Work

New team member: from next month (July) onwards Wood You Like will be a 3 "man" band; Barry Thomas Bayat will join the business and brings with him his great experiences in restoring original parquet floors. We will properly introduce Barry in the next newsletter including images of his excellent work done over the years.
To say we are excited about adding a new "department" to our business would be an understatement. These are definitely exciting times!

Moving home: due to moving home (still very near our Charing showroom) you might get the answering machine the coming week/weekend or have to wait a little longer before we can answer your enquiries by email. Rest assured, we'll try to have as minimum interruption of normal business as possible and we're keeping our fingers crossed our move will go as smoothly as we tried to plan it - but you know Murphy's Law.

Remember, the "newsletter readers only offer" is now ongoing and valid every time you order 2 or more maintenance products, see the link below.

The latest article on the FAQ & News site: "VOC = new finishing and fitting materials"
The most popular guide in March: "Wooden Floor Installation Manual"
Most frequently downloaded wood-manual article: "Solid floors - what to note"
How to.... Use the promo-code with your order of maintenance products.
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Feel free to drop by, phone (01233 713725) or email us for any enquiry any day of the week, see below for our normal opening hours.

We are looking forward to welcome you and/or your customer in our showroom.
Our opening times are:
Tuesday - Saturday: 9.30am - 5pm
Sunday: By appointment only.
Monday: afternoon (times may vary)
Open on most Bank Holidays

Please try to avoid the notorious 'School-run' on School Road between 3.10 and 3.30pm

Kind Regards
Wood You Like Ltd
Karin Hermans / Ton Slooven
Brenchley Mews, School Road
Charing - Kent TN27 0JW