Lye Treatment For Floors
Wood lye is used for priming of unfinished or newly sanded interior woodwork i e.
Lye treatment for floors. 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. 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. 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. Type of plank.
The priming prevents the wood from yellowing and enhances the wood grain creating a coloured wash effect depending on the chosen colour. The wood still requires a coat of mafi white floor oil. Floor stairs furniture and panels. Apply at least one liter of lye for every 100 sq ft.
Traditions are there to be broken. Mafi larch brushed lye treatment and white oiled. A hard wearing conifer floor. Larch plank in 3 layer construction with small bevel on long side and approx.
Inquiry add to wishlist. The lye does not add any surface protection. Wood lye may be used on all types of wood. White lye treatments create a beautiful natural look on pine oak and ash floors amongst others.
A variety of mafi products come pre coated with a wood lye treatment. 5 mm backing in the same wood and middle layer conifer. Brushed lye treated white oil. Lye treatment is suitable for all conifers floors staircases ceilings etc for indoor use.
Very vivid surface appearance. After extensive sanding the floors are bleached with lye which takes out the natural yellow and generally creates a raw whitewashed effect. Larch wide plank brushed lye treated white oil. After all the flooring is reclaimed and not meant to be 100 perfect.
Damp mop the floor with woca intensive wood cleaner see separate instructions. Of floor or woodwork. Apply the lye undiluted with a brush or paint roller in an even coat on the floor following the wood grain. Beautiful vivid surface appearance full of character.
The lye can have different effects on certain species of woods. Today lye is commercially manufactured using a membrane cell chloralkali process it is supplied in various forms. Lye most commonly refers to sodium hydroxide naoh but historically has been used for potassium hydroxide koh. The floors can then be finished with a white oil or natural soap.
5 mm top layer with approx.