Lye Treatment For Floors

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

Lye treatment for floors.

Of floor or woodwork. Traditions are there to be broken. Lye treatment is suitable for all conifers floors staircases ceilings etc for indoor use. Type of plank.

After all the flooring is reclaimed and not meant to be 100 perfect. The floors can then be finished with a white oil or natural soap. 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. Wood lye may be used on all types of wood.

Very vivid surface appearance. The lye does not add any surface protection. 5 mm top layer with approx. Let the floor dry completely.

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. Wood lye is used for priming of unfinished or newly sanded interior woodwork i e. Floor stairs furniture and panels. A variety of mafi products come pre coated with a wood lye treatment.

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. The wood still requires a coat of mafi white floor oil. A hard wearing conifer floor. Inquiry add to wishlist.

Larch plank in 3 layer construction with small bevel on long side and approx. Today lye is commercially manufactured using a membrane cell chloralkali process it is supplied in various forms. Mafi larch brushed lye treatment and white oiled. Apply the lye undiluted with a brush or paint roller in an even coat on the floor following the wood grain.

Apply at least one liter of lye for every 100 sq ft. 5 mm backing in the same wood and middle layer conifer. The lye can have different effects on certain species of woods. Brushed lye treated white oil.

Beautiful vivid surface appearance full of character. White lye treatments create a beautiful natural look on pine oak and ash floors amongst others. Damp mop the floor with woca intensive wood cleaner see separate instructions. The priming prevents the wood from yellowing and enhances the wood grain creating a coloured wash effect depending on the chosen colour.

Larch wide plank brushed lye treated white oil.