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Precolouring: What's on the market ?
PRECOLOURING WOODEN FLOORBOARDS COLOURING WOOD VASTLY INCREASES THE DECORATIVE OPTIONS
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Why would you move heaven and earth to make people think that your oak parquet floor is actually a wenge parquet floor? Because it’s beautiful? In that case, just buy a wenge parquet floor in the first place. Too expensive? Doesn’t this raise the question as to whether the difference in price is so great after the administration of the necessary camouflage techniques and products? Whatever the case, the market offers the necessary possibilities for making one wood look like another one. Precolouring parquet is occurring more and more frequently and the number of shades is infinite.
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Floor Forum International 95
The real wood colour What’s special about a wood colour is that you can’t just catalogue a colour under a common umbrella name. Each wood sort has its own shade, which belongs to that wood sort. Let’s put it like this: If you say that merbau is ‘reddish’ in colour, you give something away in the description of that wood sort. You make it clear that ‘reddish’ is only a general guidelines. Anyone who says that merbau is ‘red’ isn’t adding anything new; on the contrary. After all, the ‘red of merbau is so unique and typical of this beautiful sort of wood that you can’t just call this shade ‘red’. That linguistic distinction is necessary; anyone who