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"BroadOak" Wood-Engineered flooring in 5 colours

From our "Aged & Distressed" flooring supplier we received 5 large new samples and we are happy to introduce to you this new range:

"BroadOak" brushed & oiled wood-engineered Oak 235mm wide

The boards are 20mm thick, have a Solid Oak top layer of 6mm on top of water-resistant-plywood (like our Duoplank range) and is available in 5 brushed and oiled versions:

1. Brushed & oiled Natural
2. Brushed & Oiled Chocolate
3. Brushed & Oiled White
4. Brushed & Oiled Grey
5. Brushed & Oiled Brown

Available from our showroom in Charing or order now in our secure webshop, minimum order = 15 sq m.

Add width and colour to your home and benefit from all the advantages wood-engineered flooring gives you:

• Adds value to any home
• Much more stable than solid floors this wide, so can be installed in almost any area of your home, including kitchens and conservatories
• Load-bearing, can be installed 'floating', glued down or secretly nailed directly onto joists
• Suitable for Underfloor Heating
• Anti-allergic
• Easy to maintain - will even get more beautiful over time!
• Eco-friendly

Call us for more information (01233-713725 during normal working hours) or drop by in our showroom in Charing to admire the large samples for yourself.

The Colours of Ageing Wood Concept

Restore the original patina of your original Oak parquet floor

(RE)Discovering an original Parquet floor is a true find. Most times a bit of TLC is needed to bring it back to its authentic grandeur. When this involves sanding your floor to remove blemishes and old layers of wax or - if you are unlucky - old layers of paint, dirt from carpet underlayment etc, you also remove its original patina. Applying a new finish (natural or a colour oil) will not bring it back.

Wood You Like - in cooperation with Renotec Duo - can help you with this through the "Ageing Wood Concept" (see our special AWC page/leaflet for more information about this unique non-toxic process). The combinations between the three available Sprays, Euku Oil HS and OilFresh provides you with a tremendous choice in original patinas. You will definitely find the one your floor had before and enable you to restore it to its authentic grandeur.

And of course there is nothing to stop you applying this concept to any brand new unfinished Oak flooring, be it solid floorboards, wood-engineered boards or Design Parquet patterns.

Underneath you can find 11 examples of these combinations, all of which can be applied by any reasonable handy DIY-er and professional floor restorer in just 1 day! (The Ageing Wood Concept only works on unfinished Oak - other wood types don't have the tannin acid that reacts with the non-toxic natural ingredients of the Ageing Spray.)

Ageing Spray Double Smoked on floorboards

The left side of this board (1) is treated with:
Ageing Spray: Double Smoked
Euku colour Oil 1HS Antique
OilFresh Natural

The right side of the board (2) is treated with:
Ageing Spray: Double Smoked
Euku colour Oil 1HS Grey
OilFresh Grey

Design Pattern 'Molencate' Ageing Spray Single Smoked

Read and see more samples of combinations here.

Easy application

Any of the combinations can be applied very simple in 4 steps:
Spray on the Ageing Wood Spray, fixate the Spray, apply the (colour) oil and apply the OilFresh.
All done in 1 single day! (Depending on the sq meters - on average up to 50 sq meters can be done in 1 day.)
See our special AWC page for images of this easy application process.

Call us for information on how much of each product you need, the tools available, prices and delivery times.
Tel: 01233 - 713725 or email us on info@woodyoulike.co.uk (we've already filled in the subject line).

Basic Wood-Engineered now available in random widths

We're happy to introduce a new product in our basic range to you:

Basic Wood-Engineered Oak Rustic, Random Width:

• 14mm total thickness,
• 3.5mm Solid Oak top layer (100 % PEFC),
• plywood backing
• bevelled,
• 2 meter long boards with standard Tongue & Groove for simple installation.
• Supplied unfinished, so you can select your own preferred natural or coloured finish - not sure which colour, order a small tin or two of testers here, product code1WF-3B.

Instead of one single width this floor comes standard in two widths: 140mm and 180mm. Plus.... on special request and with a longer lead time, you can even add boards of 160mm and 200mm to your order.

All widths have the same price per sq m.

How to calculate the sq meters per width to create your random width floor? Based on the standard 140 and 180mm combination: 60% of the total sq meters needed as 180mm, 40% as 140mm. Example: 20 sq m (including saw-waste) means 12 sq m 180mm wide and 8 sq m 140mm wide.

(It is recommended for random width floors to add 10% saw-waste instead of 5- 7%.)

Grigio range: rediscovered Artist's Pigments on Oak

Until paint was produced commercially during the Industrial Revolution (circa 1800), painters had to make their own paints by grinding pigment into oil. The paint would harden and would have to be made fresh each day. Paint consists of small grains of pigment suspended in oil.

In portraits and in illustrations of religious and mythological subject matter the great Venetian masters of the sixteenth century manipulated the substance and colour of pigments to achieve naturalistic, decorative and expressive ends.

Lieverdink Parket is introducing a new range, Grigio (Italian for Grey) using 5 rediscovered Artist's Pigments to create unique authentic appearance of Oak flooring. Treated (on site) after installation with either Osmo natural or white maintenance wax gives you the choice between 10 original and authentic Oak floors (in floorboards or wood blocks 6mm tick - "tapis" or "overlay" floors in various widths).

The Pigment including natural oil finish is applied in the factory, all you or your fitter have to do to bring out this allure of old times into your home is install the Oak floor and apply the Osmo maintenance wax (natural or white).

   

For more details on available sizes, prices and lead time just give us a call on 01233 - 713725.

Alternative for Teak and Merbau mosaic - Mogno (Cambara) 5-fingers

If you are wondering we've turned colour-blind, no - not at all. But how can one wood species be an alternative for two rather different wood species: Teak is brown to grey - if untreated, not maintained for a long period of time - and Merbau is reddish brown with sometimes yellow streaks?

Both Teak and Merbau are among the more suspicious forest-deforestation sources (although when Wood You Like lists one or both types in our catalogue you can rest assured it comes from a sustainable source) and so the demand for especially Teak from sustainable sources is much higher than the supply.

Teak and Merbau have been used frequently in the 50's to 80's in mosaic floors (the so-called 5 finger mosaic or 5 finger basket weave) and many such floors are now rediscovered underneath carpets. Finding replacement blocks or additional blocks to extend the floor is rather difficult.

Now, tropical Mogno (Cambara) 5 finger mosaic is warm brown in colour - less reddish than Merbau but more reddish than Teak. It depends on how old your original Teak or Merbau floor is and if you have to sand it to bring it back to its original luster. Every wood type matures over time, and sanding will remove its aquired patina, almost starting the mature a new.

Some of our DIY floor restorers have used Mogno to add to existing Teak mosaic floors successfully and some have used it to repair/restore Merbau mosaic floors successfully. All fingers have their own character, old blocks and new blocks alike - which means the Mogno new addition can blend in, not completely perfect, but still.

In our webshop you can find many different wood species in the 7 and 5 finger mosaic catalogue, Mogno (Cambara) among them. You can request a small sample of the Mogno to see if it can be the solution for your own repair/restore job. (Just follow the link in our webshop underneath the image of the Mogno so we have your address details to send to sample to)

Or..... how about a complete new floor in Mogno? Warm brown and full of individual character? And rather economicly packed too: 0.67 sq m per pack.

Design Parquet patterns hand-assembled with care

We recently toured our Design Parquet manufacturer's factory in the Eastern part of The Netherlands. Lieverdink prides itself as one of the best quality suppliers of standard wood blocks for herringbone and other 'simple' parquet designs like basketweave or Chevron. These designs are block by block installed in your home to create an unique, durable and valuable authentic parquet floor.

Parketfabriek Lieverdink's main feat however is to hand-assemble 'standard' Design Parquet patterns - most of them carry the name of a Dutch castle or manor houses so might be a bit difficult to pronounce for the English public. How about "Cruysvoorde" or "Avegoor" and "Beerenclauw"? However, no matter how hard you find it to pronounce the name, it is a fact that all patterns come hand-assembled out of the factory, in emaculate quality and ready for us (or you) to install in your home.

Once in your home the individual tiles will create this unique pattern, a truly "one of its kind" valuable parquet floor.

Besides hand-assembling the many Design Parquet patterns we have seen much more products and manufacturing processes, but that's for another article.

Ageing Wood Concept: Restore your original Parquet floor to its original grandeur

During the 50's up to even the 90's many new homes were fitted with wood flooring: from floorboards (many without T&G) to Design Parquet floors. Many of these robust floors were covered with wall-to-wall carpet when this became in fashion. Such a petty!

Then in this decennia, very fortunately, many of these beautiful and valuable wood floors are being re-discovered again. You can see at the number of wood guides dedicated to cleaning and/or repairing original wood floors it is an area where Wood You Like will advice you on too.

9 times out of 10 a bit of TLC is enough to bring back the floor's old lustre, but sometimes (mostly due to plumbing or other building activities in the past) there has to be some repair work done. The main 'problem' with restoring an original Oak floor is that by sanding off the old finish layers, the height differences and deep scratches, the original warm patina is removed too. The old floor looks rather new again, loosing its authentic grandeur.

 Not any longer!

Wood You Like can now provide floor-restorers the Ageing Wood Concept, a simple but effective and none-hazardous way to restore any sanded Oak wood floor to its authentic character.

 

Inpa Parket: from FSC forest to FSC floor - videos

FSC stands for Forest Stewardship Council, a global well-known organisation promoting environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests.

Our Duoplank manufacturer Inpa Parket shows you in their dedicated video (long - 17.33 minutes - or short version - 3.19 minutes, see below) what this means in real-life.

You will see how their FSC-certified forest is maintained, how the forest is harvested in the most environmental and sustainable way, how the local communities profit and how when producing the Duoplank both the tropical top layer as well as the plywood backing are dried to specifications before the two layers are pressed-glued together. Guaranteeing you that no matter how the humidity changes both layers will react in the same way - and not causing extra tension between them.

Short Version:

Design Parquet Manufacturer Lieverdink again among the three best suppliers

For the fourth successive year has our Design Parquet Manufacturer Lieverdink ended among the three best suppliers voted on by ParquetGroup Netherlands (PNG).

They are what we like to call the bespoke part of our ranges: From Basic Oak to Bespoke.

With already 30 different 'standard' design patterns in their assortment in various wood-types Lieverdink constantly rises successfully to the challenge when one of our clients likes something even different - be it in design or size of blocks.

In all the 5 years Wood You Like is already supplying and installing design parquet floors Lieverdink has never let us down - so a well deserved position again. We fully agree with the members of the ParquetGroup Netherlands (group of mind-like retailers not only promoting Real Wood, but also a loud and respected voice towards quality manufacturers).

Wood You Like Design Parquet on-line

'Old-fashion' Design Patterns are the new look. More and more property owners re-discover a treasure underneath layers of carpet or vinyl (and in some cases even underneath Melamine Laminated 'plastic' floorboards!). From 5-finger mosaic, herringbone and basket-weave patterns to Versailles type elaborate designs - all priceless floorcoverings.

But it is not just in homes built in the 50's or 60's - modern homes are now also being 'dressed-up' (and "up-valued") with new wood blocks in herringbone, mosaic, basket-weave or design tiles in Oak (or dark Tropical wood-species).

In Wood You Like's secure new webshop you can browse 30 specific designs, laser-cut by our Dutch Design Parquet manufacturer for precision, to turn your home into a 'castle' or manor house.

Or just to benefit from the easy maintenance, anti-allergic and value adding benefits wooden flooring gives any home.
All patterns can be ordered in many wood-types; the Oak used by our Dutch manufacturer is certified coming from PEFC sources.

More information on how to calculate the square meters needed in patterns and wood-blocks and how to order your own unique value adding modern design floor covering is all explained on our secure webshop pages.

Who else wants Professional Tools?

Regular visitors to this FAQ & News part of Wood You Like's websites know we are always more than happy to share tips and even tricks of the trade.

We are now also able to provide you (the sincere DIY-er) with "Tools of the Trade" - tried and tested durable and high quality tools used by the professionals.

Already added to our Professional Tool range in our webshop are:

• HardWaxOil Applicator (with sponges), applying the HardWaxOil (or any maintenance) polish very smoothly and thinly for the best end-result
• Original Duoline knocking-block (tapping-block)
• Original Duoline Jemmy Bar - with felt backing!
• Parquet Adhesive notched Trowels and a special 'trowel-knife' for small areas (like borders)

More professional tools will be added shortly, so stay tuned - or even better: subscribe to our Newsletter to be kept up to date automagically with news, tips and advice.

Scarving Xperience - wood with an authentic twist

Scaring Xperience, developed by Inpa and H&W Finishing, is new technique to give unfinished wooden floorboards a truly unique character.

You've experienced the 'trendy' look of aged and destressed ranges - most times available only in Oak, in specific floor types and standard pre-defined colour oils. Although plentiful, no choices beside that: what you see is what you get.

The 5 options of the Scarving Xperience changes all this:

Unique hand-scraped or aged in an controlled process can be added to any unfinished floorboards available from our Duoplank and Solid floors manufacturer Inpa.

Then you tell us what finish you want and the floorboards will be factory finished to the highest standard: giving you your own truly unique natural wooden floor.

The range we carry from this manufacturer contains Oak and many (from their own FSC certified forest) tropical species in various widths.
Choose a solid board, or the well-known Duoplank or the wood-engineered basic range.

Scarving Xperience: almost unlimited options in high quality!

Ask for more details by phone (01233 - 713725), email or drop by in our showroom in the lovely village of Charing.

Heatflow: float wood on underfloor heating systems

More and more underfloor heating systems use the so-called 'floating-system' where the water pipes are placed in thick insulation "blocks". These blocks on their own are load-bearing and don't need screeding over or floor-cover supporting battens in between.
Most wood-engineered boards are suitable to be installed on underfloor heating systems (our own Oak Duoplank range is even guaranteed!) but need something between the water pipes and the backing. Most manufacturers recommend the boards are glued down on the screed layer or sheet material placed over the pipes.
So what to do with the newer underfloor heating systems?

Duralay (the Timbermate underlayment makers) now have a special underlayment that solves this problem: the Heatflow Wood Underlay.

This underlay is specially formulated for use with electric or water based underfloor heating, provides a very low thermal resistance level allowing heat to pass through it easily and a high reduction of transmitted noise of 21db. It has lower 'tog' ratings which allow the warmth generated by underfloor heating to pass quickly into the room. They conduct more heat than other underlays, making them the ideal choice for installations with underfloor heating, bringing greater heating efficiency and the potential of reducing heating bills.

Available in rolls of 15 sq m in our webshop 2: wood flooring accessories

All about the maturing of wood-species

Our Dutch Design Parquet manufacturer Parketfabriek Lieverdink has put together a handy guide to show you how various wood-species mature when exposed to natural light. This change in colour might be of importance to you when choosing a wood-species to compliment other materials and/or furniture in your home.

Some species change appearance in a spectacular way!

See here for an example on European Oak. In the special leaflet you will find 25 other wood-species from Beech to the more exotic tropical Padoek.

Introduction offer: Triplank Mammoet Oak Smoked & Aged

Our most popular wood-engineered floor - The Basic Oak Rustic with 4mm solid Oak top layer, brushed & oiled - has been joined with its 'Great-Uncle' as we like to call this new addition to the Triplank family:

Basic (Triplank) Mammoet Oak Smoked & Aged wood-engineered 1-strip floorboards - finished with a natural oil and with micro-bevels on the long sides.

This floor has normal (high quality) T&G construction for easy installation, can be installed floating or glued-down and is suitable for underfloor heating.

Measurements: 15 x 189 x 1860mm, 2.81 sq m per pack.

Our introduction price: £ 49.97 ex VAT per sq m.

Add natural age and beauty to your home in a simple but value adding way, wooden features do add on average 5 - 10% value to your home (or buy-to-let property), is easy to clean, anti-allergic and becomes more beautiful the longer it's down.

Buy it now through our webshop: see article 1WE-OAK-5 (3rd product on the page).

Advice on wooden flooring at hand (and appreciated)

Click on picture for enlargement.

If you are looking for quality products too and want to know - in your own area - what the signs of good quality products and quality companies are, download our "11 Key Questions Check-List when shopping for wooden flooring".
It might save you time and money too.

(If you live in the Kent area, just drop by in our showroom and be assured of quality in products and advice!)

Wood-Engineered Basic Range addition

In our Basic Range of natural wooden flooring we have welcomed a new addition: Wood-Engineered Oak Rustic small board pre-oiled.
(We are awaiting a picture showing you this floor in an interior design, like you are used from us to show the whole character of the floor, in the meantime we've selected an image that still gives you a good indication of how the floor will look in your home.)

The small board measures: 14.5 x 145 x 1820mm with T&G construction and has a solid Oak top layer of 3.6mm, micro-beveled and pre-oiled.
Like most of our wood-engineered boards it is suitable for all areas, including kitchens, utilities, conservatories and even on underfloor heating.

Our newest addition is packed per 1.583 sq m and is now available in our secure Webshop

How wooden flooring can add value to your home

Here’s proof - that wooden flooring can add value to your home - with almost immediate effect.  In a recent national survey (carried out by woodfloors.org) 90 % of real estate agents said that houses with wood flooring are more marketable, 58% agreed that homes with wooden floors sell for more money, and 46% agreed that homes with wooden floors  sell more quickly than those without.

Will this help you? Find out now........

FSC ID code for Wood You Like

This week FSC-UK.org has granted Wood You Like Ltd  an unique ID code: FSC-GBR-1019.

This unique ID-code guarantees you that the products we label FSC certified are genuine FSC certified and authorises Wood You Like to use the FSC-trademark. In order to receive this unique code any retailer selling to domestic clients has to prove their purchases really do come directly from a FSC-certified company/manufacturer.

You can be absolutely sure that when we promote one of our products as FSC-certified it definitely is. It ensures you it comes from well-managed forests, sustaining not only the environment but also its local population.

Always look for the FSC logo and unique ID code when retailers promote FSC products: it tells you that they are genuine authorised by FSC-UK.org to use the Trademark.

And of course, besides FSC certified products we supply PEFC certified products, like most of our Design Parquet blocks and patterns.

(This announcement is also the 100th's article on our FAQ & News site!)

Cast iron buffing block now with 100% guarantee

The most effective and eco-friendly way to maintain your natural wooden floor the easy way! 100% guaranteed!

Every wooden floor benefits from maintenance treatments. Modern polishes are easy to apply and our eco-friendly 7kg weighing cast-iron buffing block makes light work of it.

Read more.......

Aged & Distressed in a modern construction

Our Aged & Distressed (Destressed) Range - the Chapel and Hertogs original Oak 'parket' floors, are products that respect traditional wood flooring methods and are produced with care and attention. These floors combine a homely, aged appearance with modern convenience: they are resistant to lactic acid (which means they are suitable for kitchens and even bathrooms) and they are virtually maintenance free.

When you combine this traditional appearance with the modern construction of thick wood-engineered boards - a 6mm Solid Oak top-layer on 15mm water-resistant-plywood (like our Duoplank range) it opens up a whole new world: tradition with ultimate stability, durability with eco-friendliness.

Did you know that 5.5 cubic meter Oak trunks can produce 95 sq m of Solid Oak floorboards 20mm thick and that the same cubic meters will produce an amazing 450 sq m of Solid Oak top-layer of 6mm thick! Almost 5 times as much! If you then also know that the birch used to make the 11 layers of water-resistant-plywood comes from dedicated Birch plantations - meaning no devastating deforestation takes place, like any wood that pays it stays - the choice between solid or wood-engineered floorboards is an easy one.

Our Aged & Distressed (Destressed) Chapel and Hertog's range will now only contain wood-engineered floors:

The so-called load-bearing 'In-between' Floor with 6mm Solid top layer on water resistant birch plywood in 10 great colours (from natural to double smoked oiled white, from smoked natural to scraped black/red oiled)

Hand-scraped standard wood-engineered floors (4mm solid Oak top layer, total thickness 15mm) in 4 colours and the Hand-aged wood-engineered board in the same colour varieties and thickness.

Combining traditional appearance with modern construction equals an eco-friendly solution.

(calculation of sq m per cubic meter by MeisterWerke)

Wooden Flooring and Water - a case-study

New Wood Floor Guide published:

Wooden Flooring and Water - a case study

Wood likes water as long as it is a tree - once the tree is cut and turned into durable products, like natural wooden flooring or furniture it is a combination that can cause problems.

Accidents do happen of course. This guide is partly a case study, partly advice and tips from us as wood flooring specialists and from an insurance specialist on what to do to prevent more damage when such an accident should happen in your home.

Case-study:

Wood You Like received the following 'cry for advice' (*1) through the 'ask a question' webform:

"About 10 years ago we purchased a wooden floor for our kitchen and dining room from a company that no longer exists. The floor is oak (French oak?), tongue and groove.
We have had a leak from our water tank onto a section of the flooring. The area affected was about 2m x 2m and although the boards have dried out quite well in the last week, the floor has buckled and has a pronounced ridge where the water has penetrated. There are also some stains on the wood. We are in need of advice as to how to proceed and what kind of restoration work may be needed. Are you able to give us some help? We could email pictures if that would assist."

Read more....       

The plain truth about natural wooden flooring in your home

Wood Floor Fact Sheet - now available:

Do you know how to IMMEDIATELY increase

the value of your house and the comfort of your home? 

Adding new or restored natural wooden flooring will definitely increase the value and comfort to any house and home immediately. Yours included.

It's a known fact - even before the 'credit-crunch' effect on the housing market.

FACT:

According to WoodCare adding wooden features to your home will increase its value between 5 to 15%.

From stripping down wooden banisters and exposing their natural character, re-instating real wood doors and especially installing real wooden floors in the main areas - it will all have an instant positive effect.

And it's not just that you can ask more for your house than your neighbour - estate agents and existing clients tell us again and again that homes with wooden floors sell quicker!

Read more....

Wood You Like, the wooden flooring specialist - Guardian Magazine

In March we reported we had received a request from the editor of the Guardian Magazine - Space Solves - to advice one of their readers on how to take care of a poor parquet floor and of course we did this to the best of our ability as we do with every request for advice.

We are happy to report that in the publication of our advice (Guardian Magazine - Saturday 3 May) we are labeled wooden flooring specialists:

Pity our poor parquet

Our 28-year-old parquet flooring is black where it has been trodden on heavily, while other parts are stained and faded. How can I lift the stains? I clean it with a damp, soapy mop.

'I'm afraid the black areas are a result of not treating the floor soon enough when the finish had worn off,' says Karin Hermans of wooden flooring specialist Wood You Like (01233 713725, woodyoulike).

Read more............

At your service, as always. And while we're on the subject of maintaining a valuable parquet floor properly - read our "3 Easy Steps to Clean and Maintain Your Parquet Floor" to make sure your own parquet floor doesn't need the 'drastic' steps of resanding - or worse, being covered up with carpet!

Testimonial on Eco-friendliness from a very young nature lover

Earlier this year we gifted, through the post, a little miracle of nature – a beautiful, locally handpicked, acorn to many of our contacts (perhaps even you).

We hope they all have given it a honourable spot in their garden and that they will undoubtedly get many years of pleasure from this most magnificent of trees as it matures over the next 40 years.

Now it’s time to share ‘the story’ behind our unusual gift.

In September last year we received an Oak sapling from one of our clients together with a mind-provoking letter:

The letter goes on to thank us for the installation, but of course we gratefully accepted Tom’s gift (see picture right) and have given it a good home.

All our wooden flooring, from Basic Oak to Bespoke, come from sustainable sources, be it FSC or PEFC certified. Thanks to sustainable forest management more trees are planted than are harvested.  In fact, European re-forestation grows by an area the size of Cyprus every year!

You can, just as our little nature-loving son of our client, rest assured that purchasing your wooden floor from Wood You Like will be an eco-friendly purchase – one with a delivery time of 4 weeks, not 40 years!

Ps: all our clients who buy a natural wooden floor during our 5th Anniversary Celebrating year will receive our very popular ‘Walking with Wood’ comfy clog-style slippers – 1 pair for free for every purchase of 10 sq m or more.

From little Acorns....

"From little Acorns mighty Oaks will grow"

How to ‘Grow your own floor’ - a special gift of natural wonder, from us to you.

On this special occasion of our 5th Anniversary we are gifting you a little ‘miracle of nature’, a beautiful acorn, hand collected from a natural forest locally, so you too can start growing your very own ‘genuine oak flooring’. (Request to have a little miracle of nature send to you by filling the form below, sorry, none left!)

Estimated delivery time for your oak floor - approx 40 years.

Meanwhile, the oak in your garden will provide you with many years of pleasure – and guaranteed, you will get so fond of it you won’t want to chop it down.  So, perhaps a quicker, more reliable way of getting your ‘genuine oak flooring’ is to give Wood You Like, the wood flooring specialists, a call on 01233 713725.

Revised delivery time for your oak flooring - within 4 weeks!

What you need to know about growing your own floor:

• The Oak is part of the Beech family - its Latin name is Quercus.
• Your Oak tree can easily live 200 years and more - the oldest known Oak tree in the UK is said to be about 1,000 years old.
• Only after about 25 years will your Oak start to produce its own acorns.
• It takes, on average, up to 35 years for an Oak tree to reach maturity (approx height of 25 – 30 metres).
• A mature Oak tree can draw up 190 litres of water a day from your garden.
• After felling your tree, it will need to go through various drying processes (lumber stacks, turning, dry-sheds, kiln drying, and more, taking up to 3 years) to reduce its moisture content, in a gentle and natural manner to prevent it splitting, before it can eventually be cut into timber or floor boards – and then dried further before you can lay them, with pride, in your home.
• From 1 cubic metre of tree you might get 20 sq metres of 21mm thick solid boards, or up to 90 sq metres of precision Wood-Engineered floorboards.

5th Anniversary Wood You Like

Happy New Year !

And what a new year it will be: a whole year with special offers to celebrate Wood You Like's 5th Anniversary.

We'll start with a very special gift to every client purchasing our quality natural wooden flooring:

Browse our website and online shop to select your own high quality natural wooden flooring and stay tuned for more special offers, attractions and celebrations.

Pre-view of Interior Design pictures of our flooring

Our policy on sending out small samples of wood is known - it will never show you the full character of the wood and/or grade of any wood type. In order to help you select the best suited floor for your taste or existing/new Interior Design we have created a whole file of 58 High Resolution Interior Design Pictures of the Duoplank an Solid Range.

For a very small fee - £ 3.97 - you can download the file (also containing our Duoplank and Solid range leaflet) from our E-booklet and leaflet page.

For a pre-view of the pictures, start the 'video' below.
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£ 3. 97: all 58 Pictures to help you choose your unique Natural Wooden Flooring from Wood You Like

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Lieverdink PGN Supplier of the Year

This month another of our trusted suppliers won an award: Lieverdink Parketfabriek (design – bespoke parquet).
Yearly the PGN (Parket Groep Nederland, 40 independent wood flooring retailers working together under the slogan “Our Craftsmanship is Your Guarantee”) selects three suppliers in wooden flooring and/or wooden flooring accessories who, according to all the PGN members deliver the best quality in products and service.
Jan Stigter, chairman of PGN, explained the reasoning behind awarding Lieverdink the first price this year:

“Perseverance in quality production, utmost believe and trust in their own products and the ability to pass on this message in a simple way to their clients made Lieverdink the worthy winner this year.”

A slightly surprised Gerben Lieverdink accepted the award during the annual End-of-Year reception of PGN in Baarn.
Lieverdink also won the price in 2001 and 2004.

(parquet flooring based on traditional craftsmanship)

News source Parketplein/PGN 27.11.07

Latin American Trade Award 2007: our Duoplank manufacturer

Inpa Parket bv has been awarded first price of The Latin American Trade Award 2007. This award is an initiative of the Dutch Department of Economical Affairs, ABN-Amro, The Netherlands-Latin America Business Council (NLABC) and KPMG.

A pre-selection placed four Dutch companies together in the race for this award and on Thursday 15 November Inpa was announced the winner. During the award ceremony - at the Head-Office of ABN-Amro - the award was handed over by Drs Chris Buijink, secretary-general of the Dutch Department of Economical Affairs, to Arthur Hoetelmans of Inpa Parket.

The ceremony followed after various presentations and talks on "changes and opportunities in trading with/in Latin America."

"Our ongoing involvement, in a sustainable and responsible way, in South America's forestry combined with assisting the local community with development and employment has contributed greatly to us winning the award."

(Renier Hoetelmans, Inpa)

Inpa Parket owns a FSC-certified forest in Bolivia and is involved in reforestation projects in Paraguay.

(News source: Inpa, Parketplein)

Chapel Parket Uk presents more Hertog

Chapel Parket UK has extended its Original Hertog Aged & Destressed Oak floorboard range. And of course, the place to see new samples of the various natural smoked and oiled natural or in popular colours (like White, Red, Grey and Gothic) is in our showroom in the lovely village of Charing, Kent.

The boards (Solid 160 - 180mm wide, thick engineered 180 - 260mm wide) are either aged or scraped (without damaging the Tongue and Groove construction, very important!) and are all pre-finished.

Solid Aged 160 - 180mm natural oiled or oiled white
Wood-Engineered Aged 180mm natural oiled or oiled white

Solid Aged 160 - 180mm smoked natural or white, double smoked natural or white
Wood-Engineered Aged 180mm in same colours

Solid Scraped 160 - 180mm Red, Grey, Gothic or Red-Black oiled
Wood-Engineered 18mm same colours

Wider Wood-Engineered boards available at a surcharge.

Also available in matching colours are flat beading, skirting boards and stair-nosing to finish your whole room in the same style.

'Real Wood' Campaign gains more support

Dutch participation in ‘Real Wood’ Campaign

The following Dutch manufacturers have affiliated themselves with the ‘Real Wood’ Campaign of the European Federation of Parquet Industry:

• Albers Parket fabrieken
• Dekora Parket
• Inpa Parket
• M.J.D. Parket
• Parketfabriek Lieverdink
• Van Kesteren Parketfabriek
• Grönloh Parket
• and Beter Hout.

The participation of the eight Dutch parquet manufacturers is the result of talks between the FEP and Parket Alliance.

The list of participants on www.realwood.eu already mentions 40 manufacturers who fully support the campaign (and carry the ‘Real Wood’ logo).

(News source: Parketplein/BWD/FEP, 15.10.07)

Ranges: From Basic Oak to real Bespoke

Our Charing showroom is home to around 117 large samples of different wood flooring types, or as we like to say: From Basic Oak to Bespoke. Ample choice for you, from simple wood-engineered Oak Rustic 3-strip, flamy Tropical (FSC) Tarrara Amarillo Duoplank or Solid floorboard to Prime Oak Design Parquet in many patterns.

Our bespoke parquet design comes in at least 25 different 'standard' patterns - in many combinations of wood types - and even then our manufacturer (Lieverdink Parket) can make bespoke even more bespoke by altering the chosen pattern at the request of our clients (when possible of course).

Below is an 'adapted' Versailles panel (or adapted "Hackfort") - a whole block in the middle instead of the 'standard' two wood strips -  in Prime Oak and this is the story we received from our delighted client:

"Hi Karin,

Having trawled the timber suppliers in the UK and Europe, plus the so called timber floor experts in the South my wife and I were on the brink of giving up on finding a supplier who could help.
Having spoken to Karin on the phone we decided to drive down to Wood You Like's premises in the wilds of Kent. We decided if she couldn't help we would give up. Our aim was to find a supplier that knew what a Versailles panel was, at a reasonable price, and a short delivery.

Karin knew exactly what we wanted, spoke to her factory in Holland whilst we were there, in Dutch (of course). Stated that it would be no problem, gave us a very competitive price and confirmed delivery would be about 10 days.
At last, so within 10 minutes of meeting we placed our order. Had confirmation the next day, and hey presto a very large lorry showed up 10 days later with our beautiful Premium Oak panels, exactly as promised.

Many thanks Karin for your excellent service from start to finish. A real pleasure, the photographs do not do the floor justice."

Kind regards

Kevin Beasant
(Senior Manager The Wilton Carpet Factory Limited, Wilton Wiltshire)

Black = back! Wenge versus Thermo Treated Oak

Black is the new... black
Designers are looking for warm and dark colours, also in wooden flooring. Staining an Oak floor will just be that: Oak with a darker colour where the grains will stand-out darker than the surrounding wood. Tropical wood comes in many colours, from red-brown to pitch black (like Wenge or Panga Panga), but comes with a price.

Our Wenge Duoplank (6mm Solid Wenge top layer on 15mm water-resistant-plywood) is black, in natures own variations of black and comes with a price tag of £ 99.47 (ex VAT) per sq m, pre-oiled.

But there is an alternative: Duoplank Thermo Heated Oak - black without pronouncing only the grain. It's a through and through 'stain', nothing superficial about it. Placed next to our Wenge sample board you can see the similarity in colour:

Price wise, a complete difference: only £ 58.97 (ex VAT) per sq m pre-oiled.

Ask us for more details, availability and accessories for your own warm, dark, sustainable wooden floor. You can call us (01233 - 713725), email us, or visit our showroom in Charing, Kent.

Wicanders WicCork on DIY-SOS

BBC's DIY-SOS team will show - in two of their new programs - how Wicanders WicCork can help to create your dream room.
Not just once, but twice have they used this versatile and available in many colours, designs and textures to help out desperate DIY-ers. The first program will be aired on Wednesday 26 September from 8.00pm on BBC1.

For  preview of the Wicanders WicCork see our "Colours and Design" page.

Personal and dedicated service, the proof is in the pudding

On this blog and on our websites (Supply and Install 'division' - "DIY with a Difference" division) our aim to supply quality products and service is frequently mentioned. And we pride ourselves that our clients frequently acknowledge this fact by sending us testimonials and feedback.

One of the promises "Why You Know Wood You Like Provides the Greatest Value in Wooden Flooring" is:

The personal and dedicated service you receive will continue for as long as you need us. Our growing band of delighted clients, with their glowing testimonials and feed back are your confirmation and assurance of the quality and service you will receive of Wood You Like, THE natural wooden flooring specialists in the UK.

Recently, after we installed a Duoplank Oak Rustic, brushed & oiled natural our client remarked that the doors (trimmed to the new height of the floor and wooden threshold) seem to be scraping over the threshold. Our job is only finished when our client is happy. The following (email) conversation is our 'proof in the pudding' of this week:

Dear Jay

As discussed with you yesterday I mentioned to Ton that the doors in your home touch the thresholds etc. Before he left he checked all of them, but he believes the doors (hardwood) are a bit too heavy for the little screws in the hinges. We have no problem whatsoever to come round again, but removing more material from the bottom of the doors, while the cause is the screws might not be the way forward (the door will 'drop' again and in the end you might end up with a gap between the top of the door and door post.)
Please advice. If needed Ton can come round later tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon.

Kind Regards
Wood You Like Ltd
Karin Hermans

Karin,

I will come back you on this. I may be able to get my father (who hung the doors) to replace the screws with longer ones if this is the case. I have a feeling that one of the doors may still need a trim but we'll try longer screws first - as we don't want them falling off in the long run.

Can I take this opportunity to thank you and Ton for a fantastic job. The floors look superb and Ton has finished the fitting to a very high standard. My Father commented that it was a very tidy job - and as a carpenter he is hard to please!!! We appreciate your patience with our fussiness too - we can be awkward clients I am aware.

Please feel free to use any of these comments on your customer comments section of your website etc if you wish.

Many thanks,

Jay & Lorraine

We are awaiting the news if replacing the short screws with longer ones has resolved the problem. If not, we're on our way - as promised.

'Old-fashion' wood mosaic available on-line

Renovating/restoring an old property and in need of renewing, replacing, adding on Old-Fashion wood mosaic tiles? The so-called 5-finger of 7 finger blocks of thin strips of wood in easy to install tiles?

We now have various wood-types available from our Charing Showroom and on-line for you to finally complete any project. The wood-types are the most 'commonly' used in the old days.

All wood-types are unfinished, so you can use your own matching colour or leave it natural with HardWaxOil, and come with mesh or felt-backing for easy installation with normal parquet adhesive (like Lecol5500 or F.Ball B92 - Stycobond)

All our products now available to buy on-line (securely)

Since today you are able to buy all of our products: natural wooden flooring either solid or engineered, fitting & finishing materials, underlayment and maintenance products on-line.
(Two categories are still in process for this: Design parquet patterns in various wood-types and thresholds/beading - we expect these to be available soon)

 
The freight costs for delivery anywhere on mainland UK are between minimum £ 8.50 and maximum £ 175.00 - most orders will be shipped directly from our manufacturers (mainland Europe) to your doorstep. This to avoid damage by having to re-load your order constantly from one delivery truck to the other.

We also have created the posibility for you to browse our online shop, download a quotation form and receive a specified no-obligations best price quote from us (these quotations will be written 'manually' on a one-to-one base and during our normal working hours, so please allow maximum 36 - 48 hours for this.

Of course, you always more than welcome to visit our showroom to see, touch, feel our over 100 different floors for yourself, send us an email with your requirements or give us a call.

After all, we here to provide you with the greatest value in natural wooden flooring and service!

More sustained success in Bolivia

Beginning this year our Duoplank Manufacturer Inpa Parket started a very special project in Bolivia: together with thirty Indian families the company owns and runs over 26.000 hectare of FSC-certified forest. In the just released newsletter "Good News!" from FSC-The Netherlands Inpa director Arthur Hoetelmans explains more about this unique joint-venture:

"We support the Indian community, named Cururu, of thirty families intensely. For instance, we teach them how to use machinery and felling of trees. Based on a sustainable method of course, in order for them to create an income from the forest without destroying it. The wood they sell from it is sub-tropical and can be used for furniture and flooring. The standard FSC-regulations are for this project adjusted on one point: the Indians are still allowed to hunt in the forest."

Inpa Parket joint FSC-The Netherlands in 1998 and has been active in Bolivia for longer.

"It has always been our desire to do something more for the local community. When we were offered a PSOM-subsidy for investments in developing countries we decided to start this project."

Inpa Parket now also works together with two other Indian communities and the certifying of the project will be ready end of 2008.

(news sources: Inpa, FSC-The Netherlands, Parketplein)

Download to Nature

In our April newsletter we explained our sample policy: Samples, why not. Because of the rich characteristics in natural wood we know that a tiny sample of any wood-type will never show you nature's variety in full.
This tiny sample (even larger than most companies do send out), is supposed to be a sample of Oak Smoked and Oiled natural. If you are able to see the whole spectrum of an Oak Smoked and Oiled natural floor you will see this (picture right):

A very wide variety in colours, from very dark (like the tiny sample) to lighter and very light. Some boards have many knots, some none at all, some boards might even have medullary rays ('flecks' or 'mirrors'). At Wood You Like we feel strongly that the best way to select the natural wooden floor most suited for your unique interior design is by looking at very large samples in our showroom or for us to present you with high resolution Interior Design Pictures to show off the rich characteristics of natural wooden flooring.

And that's what we have launched just now: a first batch of 58 high resolution Interior Design Pictures from our Duoplank and Solid Flooring range downloadable from our website. More ranges will follow very soon.

We use a secure server for the downloads and have to ask you a very small donation for this. In keeping with our sustainable sources policy we will however donate 75% of all revenue from the downloads to a local nature group: The Charing Alderbed and Wetland Meadow Conservation Group. (You can find more details about this nature project on our website.)

Special offer on Wicanders WiCCork series 100

Our cork range flooring comes in many colours and designs (not just 'boring' brown). And until the end of June 2007 all 4 'Collections' in the Series 100 are reduced in price to £ 27.50 per sq m (ex VAT)

Series 100: cork floorboards (10.5 x 295 x 900mm) with cork-lock, Extreme WRT (Wear-Resistant-Technology) finish and built-in thermal insulation and built-in acoustic insulation (the natural characteristics of cork).

In our showroom we have 12 of the 30 different colours and desing on show for you. (Please note, on small orders we might have to charge a little bit extra for freight-costs - maximum £ 40,00, but this depends on how quickly you would like your cork flooring delivered)

New Range: Antique Hand scraped and Hand destressed Oak

Wood You Like is happy to announce the addition of Hertog's Antique Handmade Oak wood-engineered range into their Charing showroom:

Hand scraped Oak Rustic and Hand destressed Oak Rustic, both pre-oiled in 4 colours:
Oiled Natural, Oiled White, Smoked and Smoked White oiled.

The Antique Hand destressed boards have a character of timelessness that fits with nearly every interior design style; the Antique Hand scraped boards add that rough texture you expect from floors centuries old.

Both types are 15mm thick with a 4mm Solid Oak top layer, bevelled on the long sides and are pre-finished oiled for quick and problem free installation in any room. The construction of the wood-engineered boards make this range also suitable to be installed in kitchens and conservatories.

Visit our showroom in Charing to see and feel the newest innovation from The Netherlands or see our online showroom for prices and other details.

Managing 60,000 football pitches

We recently reported on our (Dutch) Duoplank manufacturer's involvement with Forest Stewardship Council and reforestation in South America.

FSC and creating sustainable forests is on ongoing business. Life is 'give and take'. This rule applies more than ever in the 30,000 hectare FSC forest owned and managed by Inpa in Bolivia.

"Put everything back into the forest what you have taken out. Call upon the services of the local inhabitants, but give them their due. Show respect for all forms of life in and around the forest."

This is the philosophy which J. Roosenboom, founder of the Dutch company, believed in 20 years ago and implemented his philosophy with reforestation projects in Paraguay.

In 2001 the company bought its own forest in Bolivia, South America. Sustainable management of the forest by the company is also the key to long-term operational management - in and around the forest. A fully self-supporting micro-economy has been created: the forest has its own road infrastructure, its own water and energy suppliers, not only benefiting the company and the forest but also the local residents, who are closely involved in the project.

FSC in practice
Managing a forest of 30,000 hectare is no sinecure. The surface area is roughly the same amount as 60,000 football pitches. The management procedure in itself is impressive:

• The forest engineer and helpers search the depths of the forest for trees and gradually make a map of the whole area
• An (ongoing) inventory of the forest is drawn up
• The FSC has to grant permission for tree-felling, requested per 'block' of forest
• In each block trees are cut selectively - the block is then closed for at least a quarter of a century and is only accessible to scientist who carry out research.
• Every cut tree bears a permanent accompanying FSC label.

The 'harvested' trees are then processed in one of the 4 company's own sawmills in Bolivia. The equipment of these sawmills are the state of the art: a modern saw, a self-grinding machine for saw-blades and an adjustable 'intelligent' decision-maker, The Opticut, which decides how each plank must be sawn.
The wood is pre-dried in the drying-sheds before it's transported further to the company's parquet factory in Paraguay and from there finds its way to final destinations all over the world.

To our showroom in Charing for instance. Wood You Like has a whole range of Duoplanks on show, from the Oak range to - of course - most of the FSC wood species.

Wicanders WicCork colour palet

Wicanders "The Natural Choice for Environmental Floors"

On our website you can now find all colours and designs available in the following WicCork ranges:

• Originals
• Identity
• Personality
• Nuance

Chose Natural Cork flooring for any of the following benefits:

• Built-in thermal insulation
• Built-in acoustic insulation
• Comfortable to walk and stand on
• Extremely wear resistant
• Increased slide resistance
• Enhances natural features
• Easy maintenance
• Healthy and hygienic
• Environmental friendly
• Fast and easy installation

For more information on Natural Cork, visit our showroom (24 large samples) or our speciality page

Samples, why not

Wood is a wonderful product of nature, very versatile in species.

But nature also 'dictates' very versatile characteristics in every species, making everything individual (like human beings, we're all different in shape, looks, colour and character).

Wood is no different, every individual board has its own colour, look, character. One piece of Oak Rustic can have many knots, sapwood areas and even some medullary rays. Another piece of Oak Rustic (even cut from the same tree) can have a completely different appearance: tiny knots perhaps, slightly darker in colour than its 'neighbouring' board and no medullary rays at all.

That's what makes a wooden floor so natural, but also makes it hard to choose a floor from a tiny sample send out to you. It can never show you all its natural variety.
That's why Wood You Like has large sample boards in the showroom, containing at least three different pieces (single boards) in the sample to give you the correct best impression of how that type of flooring, that type of wood in that type of grade and colour can look like.
That's why Wood You Like websites and online showroom shows interior design pictures, not pictures of a piece of wood. We want to 'show-off' the richness of nature's varied character.

That's why Wood You Like doesn't easily send out tiny samples, it will never give you the best impression. You might receive a dark piece, not matching your style or colour idea at all, while in the total floor it would 'blend' in seamlessly between all other varied in character boards.
There is another reason for not sending samples: all wood-types 'mature' once exposed to light (and not just sun light). Some wood types start pale and get darker or honey-coloured (like Oak), some start light brown and turn brown-reddish over time (specially tropical wood types) and some turn from vaguely dark to deep dark (Jatabo amongst others). A 'fresh' sample send out for a colour match with your design will not show you the ultimate matured appearance of your natural wooden floor.

Nature is too varied to have your choice in wood dictated by a small - tiny sample. Come and see it in situ in our showroom or download our Interior Design Pictures of many wood-types in our various ranges.

The Mighty Oak - wood at work

Yesterday the Mighty, Majestic Oak featured in BBC2's "The Trees That Made Britain". Tony Kirkham and Jon Hammerton, both familiar faces from the Kew-Garden programs, showed and experienced the 'work-horse' among trees.

The Oak has been around for ages, surrounded with folklore, tradition, history and is nature's source for many trades and products.

The Oak, not just in the U.K. - all over mainland Europe also, is used for grand structures (Salisbury Cathedral's Spire is just one, but excellent, example), many historic ships, galleons, barges and simple tugs depended on the strength of the Oak, the bark of the tree (the tanned-acid) was/is an essential product to keep hides in prime and flexible condition and Oak barrels make Whiskey what Whiskey is.

Oak, the majestic tree is the most popular choice in wooden flooring (85% of all wooden flooring bought), its variety in grades and natural colours, its strength, durability and value is renowned by all and sundry.
The tanned-acid in the wood is still used to create that typical dark, golden brown, smoked colour old Oak boards or beams in stables and cattle-wagons have (the ammonia in the cattle pee reacting with the tanned-acid changes the wood colour - nowadays ammonium-vapours are used - in a 'smoke-room' - to create the same effect).

Mighty Oak, the versatile, grandest work-horse among all trees, who wouldn't want to have a majestic floor from you?

Shouldn't cork be boring brown?

Eh, no, definitely not.

WicCork (Wicanders): "The Natural Choice for Environmental Floors" comes in many colours, designs and textures. The pictures above show only a small selection of all the colours nature's own insulator comes in, in total there are over 30 available (even brown).
Go wild and create your own design mixing various colours and textures together; stay cool/calm and create your own 'hide-away' with one soothing colour.

Cork, environmentally and eco-friendly harvested from the Cork Oak tree, absorbs sound and is warm, comfortable and soft under foot.
Ideal hygienic and anti-allergic floorcovering in children's playrooms and bedrooms. Or to liven up your heavy traffic reception area, or waiting room and office.

WicCork comes in floorboards (10.5 x 295 x 900mm) with corkloc T&G or in glue-down tiles (3.2 x 300 x 300mm/600 x 300mm) all with Extreme WRT (Wear-Resistant-Technology) finish and with built-in thermal insulation and built-in acoustic insulation (the natural characteristics of cork).

In our showroom in Charing we have 24 large sample boards to give you the best starting point in visualising what/how cork floorcovering can do/mix with your unique interior design at home or in your office.
Just another example of Wood You Like's specialities

Forest Stewardship Council and reforestation.

Reforestation should be on everyone's mind who is dealing/working with wood. Sustained forests are the only way forward, economically and environmentally. More and more governments, producers and organisations realise that a "Forest that pays, stays", and not just tropical forests. Examples: The Netherlands and Belgium combined have 115,000 ha of FSC certified forests and plantations (production forests), The U.K. 1,693,000 ha beginning 2007.
And more and more organisations/customers demand that wood used in projects (building projects, flooring projects) comes from sustained forests.

Our Dutch 'Duoplank' and Solid wooden flooring manufacturer owns 30,000 ha of FSC certified tropical forest in Bolivia and has been involved with reforestation projects in Paraguay for many, many years.

The founder/owner started with sustained forestry even before FSC was 'born' (1990) and without any help from local (South America) governments (who have been known to point out the huge forest to him asking: whatever for do we need to replant?).
The sustained plantation is now the only forest around for miles.

The birch plywood backing of the Duoplank also comes from sustained forests, making it one complete product from nature - with nature's future in mind.

(Did you know that the Oak, Merbau, Walnut and Iroco Duoplank range is guaranteed on underfloor heating? This product has been tested by TNO  - world wide renowned Dutch Technology and Test Institute - to ensure that it's a perfectly suitable product to be installed over underfloor heating - correctly installed and used according to the heating system manufacturer's specifications of course)

Restoration projects - bespoke blocks

Wood You like has been called upon to source wooden blocks for a restoration project in East Kent. The client needed herringbone blocks in a very specific width and length in order to fill in and extent from an existing herringbone floor, but was unable to find a exact duplicate until, of course, Wood You Like got involved.

Our bespoke Design Parquet Manufacturer (named in the top 3 of "Best Supplier of the Year 2006" The Netherlands) made 'easy' work of the order and also created a perfect (left and right) tongue and groove to the 13.5mm thick solid blocks. Two weeks after the first enquiry from our client the wood blocks were delivered to site.

Just one small sample of Wood You Like's specialities.

Design Parquet Manufacturer in Top 3

We're proud to announce that our (bespoke) Design Parquet Manufacturer (Parketfabriek Lieverdink BV) had been named in the top 3 of
"Best Supplier of the Year 2006"
(yearly event in The Netherlands) together with Plinten & Profielen Centrale and Kährs Benelux.