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When choosing for Natural Wooden Flooring you will start to enjoy the many benefits this floor covering gives you from day one on:

• easy day-to-day care and maintenance with the knowledge that a clean wooden floor is really clean and doesn’t hide house dust mites etc


• a ‘solid’ investment that keeps its value over years to come and is a quality feature to promote when the time might come you start thinking of selling your home


• one of the most anti-allergic floor coverings you can have, a real benefit for Asthma, allergy and even eczema sufferers


• eco-friendly, for every tree used in wooden flooring from sustained forests new trees are planted and trees are nature's way of absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and producing the oxygen we breathe.

Having natural wooden flooring installed creates not only beauty, durability and an upgrade in the value of your property; it is also means you have a floor covering that is hygienic, anti-allergic and only needs the minimum of easy maintenance.

Taking care of your wooden floor enhances its beauty, durability and value.

Most of our quality floors come pre-treated with a quality and hard-wearing finish. Applying a suitable maintenance product to feed the wood which enhance its character and to continiously protect it from drips and other accidental water spillages is all that's needed. 
Re-applying the oil or lacquer finish is in 99 of the 100 cases absolutely not needed.

We recommend that in the first few years a suitable maintenance product is applied every 5 - 6 months, depending on your 'traffic' circumstances. The beauty of it is - specially with oiled floors - the more times this is done regularly the number of times it is needed will reduce from twice a year to twice every one and a half year or even less.

Wood You Like Professional Maintenance Products
(See also our: maintenance tips)

Maintenance and after care products: 
(all available from our Charing showroom or from our webshop)
Why not join one of our "Easiest Maintenance Programs"?

• Cleaning polishes from Lecol/Leha


• Hard wax and liquid Wax Polish (Best Buy) from Lecol/Leha for all types of finishes.


• Floor Care Sets from Saicos - for all floors treated with Saicos oil (and more)
  
  
• Felt-pads for furniture


• Applicators and 'old-fashion' buffing-blocks to make maintenance even easier.
  Now with 100% guarantee!


• Ceramic water-containers to increase the air-humidity in a simple but tasteful way. 


• Indoor Max-Min Thermometer and Hygrometer 

Wood You Like's Professional Maintenance service (in Kent* area)

Depending of the sq meters of the area, from £ 60.00 ex VAT per service, including maintenance product.

For the maintenance service by our own professionals you only have to remove small furniture from the room. 

You can access the room(s) again within an hour.

Maintenance tips:
All of our clients receive our maintenance leaflet when installation is completed (or for DIY-ers when the floor is delivered) filled with practical tips and advice on how to keep your natural wooden floor in prime condition.
Stains can be tackled too:

If you have a further question about how to maintain your own wooden floor as best as possible - ask us!

Related articles:

Two questions, one problem, one answer - sort of

Wood You Like the Healthy Option

"At last my sneezing and itching has stopped. The simple fact of ripping-out our carpets and replacing them with your wooden flooring has had an almost immediate and lasting positive effect on my year long suffering from dust allergy. I only wish I'd done that much earlier."
Mr T. Chappell, (WPA - Medical Insurance) Ashford Kent

In 1999 98% of UK homes had wall-to-wall carpet. In the U.K. more carpet per person is bought every year than in any other European country.
Wall-to-wall carpet suggests luxury, comfort and warmth, but the appeal diminishes when we look a little closer. Carpets harbour dust, which leads to a build up of dust mites and dust mite allergen – an important trigger for asthma and other allergies. One square meter of carpet can contain up to 100.000 dust mites. Babies and young children exposed to such allergens can become sensitised to them and develop asthma and allergies in later life.

Conventional cleaning, even with the newer types of high-powered vacuum cleaners is not sufficient to remove dust mites and doesn’t have the same impact on asthma symptoms as complete removal of carpet.
However, the cheapest alternative smooth floorings are made of PVC, also known as vinyl, which is a major source of toxic and sometimes persistent substances in the environment. Some research also suggest the softeners in PVC itself may contribute to asthma incidence.

In Feb 2000 the Women’s Environmental Network, National Eczema Society and Action Against Asthma founded The Healthy Flooring Network. Its aim is to raise awareness of the links between fitted carpets, PVC flooring and health and to encourage and promote alternatives. The Healthy Flooring Network commissioned a review: Allergic Disease and the Indoor Environment by Dr. Jill Warner, Senior Lecturer in Allergy and Immunology at The University of Southampton.
This review highlights for the first time that carpets act as important reservoir for allergens, which trigger allergic asthma.

Other Healthy (Home) solutions

Besides replacing carpets with natural wooden flooring there are other, mostly simple, ways to create a more healthy home to reduce Asthma, allergy or eczema triggers:

We've listed some practical tips on our Wood You Like FAQ blog:
Benefits of Natural Wooden Flooring: Anti-Allergic Floor Covering
and more tips on our Tips and Advice page: House Climate

Other products than can reduces allergens are:
Better Water Solutions (Ashford, Kent U.K.)
Quality water softeners, filters, dispensers - coolers and cartridges to turn hard and damaging water back into soft, pure and healthy water.

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