What are the differences between lacquered (painted) and the oiled type of blinds?
One type of blind has has the raw slat coated with an oil which soaks into the wood and gives a very natural appearance for approximately a year or so. By this time, the oil has evaporated out of the wood and the slats begin to look very dry and sometimes patchy and require to be reoiled with something like Scandinavian or Danish oil and the process is repeated throughout the life of the blind. Wood thus coated has fine fibres sticking up from it’s surface making them difficult to clean as these fibres hold the dust. This type of coating also should it accidentally get raindrops on it will show water stain marks. This coating is usually a matte finish. Lacquered (painted) blinds have two kinds of coatings. One is a standard spray on, usually polyurethane coating, or a Ultra Violet cured lacquered coating. We use the latter, which is state-of-the-art in the world today. This type of coating does not dry by evaporation of solvents, but contains photo-reactors which cause this paint to in
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