Lye Treatment For Floors

Damp mop the floor with woca intensive wood cleaner see separate instructions.

Lye treatment for floors.

Let the floor dry completely. The floors can then be finished with a white oil or natural soap. Of floor or woodwork. Wood lye is used for priming of unfinished or newly sanded interior woodwork i e.

Work on building and installing the kitchen is still underway more to follow on that so photos of the completed extension must wait a little longer. Mafi larch brushed lye treatment and white oiled. A lye is a metal hydroxide traditionally obtained by leaching wood ashes or a strong alkali which is highly soluble in water producing caustic basic solutions. The lye does not add any surface protection.

Larch plank in 3 layer construction with small bevel on long side and approx. White lye treatments create a beautiful natural look on pine oak and ash floors amongst others. Today lye is commercially manufactured using a membrane cell chloralkali process it is supplied in various forms. A variety of mafi products come pre coated with a wood lye treatment.

Lye most commonly refers to sodium hydroxide naoh but historically has been used for potassium hydroxide koh. Lye is a chemical used for making soap performing chemistry demonstrations making biodiesel curing food unclogging drains disinfecting floors and toilets and synthesizing drugs because it can be used to make illegal drugs lye may be hard to find in a store however you can make the chemical yourself using a method popular in colonial days. Floor stairs furniture and panels. The wood still requires a coat of mafi white floor oil.

Traditions are there to be broken. Wood lye may be used on all types of wood. After all the flooring is reclaimed and not meant to be 100 perfect. Brushed lye treated white oil.

Apply at least one liter of lye for every 100 sq ft. Larch wide plank brushed lye treated white oil. A hard wearing conifer floor. Type of plank.

5 mm top layer with approx. All i will say is that a slight mishap occurred when experiencing an itchy nose as i used the lye on my new oak kitchen. Inquiry add to wishlist. Very vivid surface appearance.

Lye treatment is suitable for all conifers floors staircases ceilings etc for indoor use. Apply the lye undiluted with a brush or paint roller in an even coat on the floor following the wood grain. A hard wearing conifer floor. 5 mm backing in the same wood and middle layer conifer.

After extensive sanding the floors are bleached with lye which takes out the natural yellow and generally creates a raw whitewashed effect.