Dane Care

Oiling products for protecting & cleaning your wooden floors
Welcome to the Dane Care web site.

Dane Care is the only UK importer stocking the full range of Woca and Trip-Trap floor finishes and cleaning products. From this website you will find:

comprehensive product support for shops and their clients
information on where individuals can buy products in their area
the opportunity to buy directly when products are not stocked locally.

Briefly, the majority of products are oil-based wood finishes although lacquers are also stocked. We believe oil will always bring out the best colour and grain from wood. The oil impregnates into the wood so it is going to result in a warm and quiet ambience. Finally, the finishes can be cared for so they improve with age, develop their own patina and never need re-sanding.

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Management

Simon Rogers-Coltman

Ulle Rogers-Coltman

Julie Briggs

Hayley Crosley

Our business objective is to supply a full portfolio of oiling products, advice, accessories and service to shops, tradesmen and individual clients when they cannot buy locally.

Dane Care is not the only importer of Trip-Trap products to the UK. However, no other importer has the full range in stock and also the benefit of 12 years hands-on experience with the products. This gives a unique advantage when listening to what you want and being able to advise what it is that you need.

Proof of our success is the certain knowledge that in Central London alone there is over 100,000m2 of top quality flooring treated by Dane Care and satisfactorily kept clean with our products.

Natural oils

Dane Care uses fast drying oils that combine resins into the wooden floor surface to create a natural protective finish that:

is wear and water resistant
enriches the wood's colour
enhances the grain
allows the floor to breath
is not slippery
contributes to quiet acoustics
has a deep satin sheen.

The final sheen of the floor depends on your working technique. Following our manual oiling and maintenance instructions will result in a matt sheen from a floor and using machines will result in a satin sheen.

Dane Care also provides a full range of oils, soaps and accessories that keeps caring for the floor as simple as modern life demands.

Cleaning Equipment

Owners of any type of wooden or laminate floor can prevent water damage to their floor by using the Scandinavian dry and damp way of cleaning. Invest in a quality Flat-Mop to simplify this work.

The Flat-Mop is used regularly to remove sand, dust and other dirt particles without using water. Its profile means that it easily reaches under furniture and into corners in a way brushes or traditional mops never can. The mop head is made from small loops of cotton and polyester that pick the dry particles off the floor. The Dane Care Flat-Mop does not use micro-fibres since experience has been that these are sometimes too aggressive on wooden surfaces.

When damp cleaning with a soap or cleaner solution is required then the mop head comes easily away from its Velcro attachment for dipping in the cleaning solution and wringing out before use. Gone are the days of buckets, ragged mops and excess water on the floor.

Easy and durable

In the days of linseed oil and waxes it was rightly said that dirt became ingrained in a wooden floor and the floor would darken over time. Dane Care, however, makes use of modern oil components to ensure that from the start their oils are well buffed in, the surface is dry, and that any wear can be repaired without disruptive sanding. The floor simply becomes more beautiful and hard wearing over the years.

Once you are equipped for dry and damp cleaning you will find it incredibly easy. Dry dirt is cleaned from the floor as often as possible without using water. The floor is damp cleaned only when needed with a minimum use of a neutral soap solution. Dane Care Natural Soap (pH 7) uses emollients extracted from Soya bean and coconut oils, which also retain the moisture in the floor just as quality soap would for your hands.

Maintenance is for when the floor is worn. Wear can mean several things: sand & stone particles abrading the wood, or fats and greases set on the surface, or natural movement in the floor opening up gaps in the finish. Dane Care wet cleaning with alkali cleaner followed by maintenance oiling obliterates problems and restores the protective finish.

Correct cleaning and maintenance make the finish as durable as the wood itself.

Warm and quiet

Choosing Dane Care is a necessity for bringing the natural warmth out of a wooden floor. This is because Dane Care materials use the surface of the wood to create the protective finish rather than placing an artificial layer over it. Oiled surfaces are a pleasure to walk on and delight thousands of feet: little and large.

For the same reason acoustics in an oiled-floor room are noticeably quieter than in a sealed-floor room.

Healthy

It is evident that the materials used in building and decorating homes influence the living environment. Allergies and asthma have become among the fastest growing illnesses in the developed world and homeowners are increasingly concerned. An oiled wooden floor is one significant step that can be taken towards a healthier home.

Dane Care constantly improves and tests itself; always aiming to meet the highest possible ecological standards. Only natural materials protect the floor and no perfumes, artificial colours or preservatives are used. Products are approved and certified by independent laboratories and the IBR (the German institute for biological building materials in Rosenheim). They also are in accordance with DIN-norm 53-160. This assures the property owner that no toxic substances are transferred from the oiled floor to a person either orally or by touch.

Press page

The following are articles that have featured Danecare products. These can be viewed on-line by left-clicking on the link, if you want to download the article then please right-click on the link and save the file from the menu that appears.

New Woodworking (Feb 2004) - The article details the fitting of a solid oak floor over a concrete sub-floor, and it's subsequent oiling with Master Oil, wet clean with IWC and re-oil with Maintenance Oil: all purchased from Dane Care. This article is re-published here with the kind permission of the multi-skilled Terry Porter (author, photographer, floor-layer and finisher) and GMC Publications.
Scandinavian Country Style - this BBCi article deals with how to achieve the style of design that has evolved out of the climate and habitat of the Nordic countries - long dark winters meant interiors were designed to let in as much light as possible, and the freezing temperatures meant using lots of wood for warmth. For further Scandinavian design inspiration you may wish to visit Nordic Style.
Wood for Good - Wood-for-Good is a generic wood campaign, which started in 2000. It is now the largest timber promotional campaign ever undertaken in the UK. I have been proud that they have taken my advice on Lye, Soap and Oil, but don’t think that because Dane Care is listed alongside Dulux/Cuprinol that it is the same size (but dreams may come true!). Pay their site a visit for more ways you can incorporate timber into your architecture.

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