Protecting and enhancing interior hard woods

Interior hard woods require careful care and attention and often demand a higher level of attention to detail and finesse. As such, we would make the following recommendations to achieve a flawless colourless finish of your interior wood surfaces.

New Wood

First degrease the wood surface with denatured alcohol
Then sand the wood (100 grain maximum)
Finally protect the wood with one of our interior hard wood protection finishes such as Deks Olje D1 or Teak Olje

Grey Wood

First clean and restore the wood with our wood cleaner and colour restorer Net-Trol
Then protect the wood with one of our interior hard wood protection finishes such as Deks Olje D1 or Teak Olje

Coated or Oiled Wood

First dry strip the wood
Then degrease the surface with denatured alcohol
Finally protect with Deks Olje D1 or another interior hard wood protection

Maintaining protected wood

First remove dust from the surface
Then protect with Deks Olje D1 or another suitable wood finish for hard wood

Recommended wood protection for interior hard wood

There are many products available for protecting interior hard wood surfaces and your product choice depends on the look that you want. We would recommend:

Deks Olje D1 – Use Deks Olje d1 for a transparent matt finish which does not cover the grain of the wood. This saturates and protects dense and/or oily woods.

Deks Olje D2 – If you want a high gloss hard wood finish which enhances the wood grain and provides long-term protection then after using Deks Olje D1 you can apply Deks Olje D2.

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