Woodoc Wood Treatment for Woodworking & Timber in Namibia

Product-per-purpose discipline: 25 for interior furniture, 2000 for floors, 30 outward — with coverage rates logged per timber species, because Namibian-dried meranti drinks differently from imbuia. Batch colour work from consistent stain lots (we supply against production runs), and write the three-coat schedule into the job card so quoting stays honest.

The water-beading test: when droplets stop standing on the surface, book the maintenance coat — inland north-facing work at 12–18 months, sheltered pieces longer. Sell it as the feature it is: a clean-and-coat afternoon versus the strip-and-rebuild every film finish demands. Joineries that quote maintenance contracts on their own installs own the relationship.

Our timber is drier than the products’ home assumptions — often single-digit moisture content — so the first coat vanishes into the fibres at coverage rates the tin never promised. Work it generously with a wet edge, let the timber take what it wants, and judge the system on coat three. The thirsty first coat is the protection working.

Test boards, always: the same Universal Colour reads differently on pine, meranti and blackwood, so step the stain concentration per species against a master sample, and seal the tests with the intended clear grade — the sealer shifts the tone too. Twenty minutes of boards saves the resand of a finished dining suite.