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Dane Care Ltd., distributors of WoCa Denmark natural oils and wood floor finishing & care products
Dane Care has three objectives:
- to make sure you can buy Woca products swiftly and at competitive prices
- to support you when you use the products with accurate How To… instructions, most of which are
written consequent to work successfully undertaken by our own teams.
- to keep available a 'supply & fit' service for high value and high profile projects. Needless
to say this tends to mean my men are mainly to be found in central London, but we regularly travel
around the UK and have even been seen across Europe and as far as New York and Cairo.
We don't cut corners
Fast drying, quality oils are used 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.
We also sell cleaning equipment!
This means owners of any type of wooden or laminate floor can correctly equip themselves and prevent
water damage to their floor by using the Scandinavian dry and damp way of cleaning.
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.
It's our intention that your floor is easy to look after 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.
Don't forget you will be more comfortable if your home is 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.
There's also no harm in being 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 is constantly improving and testing 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.
Recently all our products have been adapted so that they are VOC. This may be jargon to you, but put
simply it means there is going to be nothing harmful to you in the air whilst work or maintenance is
carried out in your home.
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