Care and use of your folding box


Take care of your FridayBOX from time to time. This will help you to enjoy your folding box for as long as possible. If something does break, you can also get spare parts from us.

Protection and care: the side section of our foldable wooden box is coated with linseed oil

Yes, please! This is how good care works:

  • Cleaning: wipe your FridayBOX once in a while with a slightly wet cloth. The smooth surfaces of the sorting box can be cleaned easily as they have no grooves or ridges.
  • Oil for the wellbeing: Treat your box now and then with a bit of oil! Pour some linseed oil on a cloth and rub it on the wood of your foldable box and let it dry.
  • Dry slowly: If your FridayBOX got wet put it somehwere to dry as soon as possible but slowly. Not too near to the heater or another source of heat!

No, better not:

  • Constant humidity and wetness: A life in a wet cellar or having to stay outside in bad weather? That’s not what the FridayBOX likes. Don’t leave your box out in the rain!
  • Lengthy contact with fresh vegetables and fruits: apples, tomatoes and other agricultural products shouldn’t be stored in the FridayBOX in direct contact with the wood. Over time it is possible that they will leave traces in the oiled wood.
  • Direct contact with delicate materials: fine fabrics, expensive carpets, important papers – these items should be kept at a distance from the FridayBOX. Because our box treated with natural oils could leave marks on them – especially if they are brand new.

Colourful colleagues of our robust foldable box

A lot of black and green boxes are left outside for weeks – whether rain or shine – and wait there to be loaded full of vegetables or herbs. A huge number of red boxes are handled and washed daily in industrial cleaning processes. Blue boxes transport all kinds of automotive parts through highly sophisticated storage and transport systems.

Many of the requirements to be met by these red, green and blue boxes don’t apply to wood as the basic material. When there is water and moisture involved the FridayBOX reaches it’s limits.

For example, your FridayBOX could suffer in the home if fruit is stored in direct contact for too long. Over time, the marks on the oiled wooden surface will begin to point to your stories with the FridayBOX. Not all of them can be wiped or sanded away.

When care no longer helps:

Your beloved foldable box befell a misfortune and you can’t restore it to the original status by sanding or oiling? Don’t worry, the single parts of the FridayBOX can be easily exchanged. Information on how to do so can be found here Repair, Tuning and Spare Parts.