Lye Treatment For Floors

A hard wearing conifer floor.

Lye treatment for floors.

Wood lye is used for priming of unfinished or newly sanded interior woodwork i e. A hard wearing conifer floor. The lye can have different effects on certain species of woods. 5 mm backing in the same wood and middle layer conifer.

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. Lye treatment is suitable for all conifers floors staircases ceilings etc for indoor use. 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. Wood lye may be used on all types of wood.

Apply the lye undiluted with a brush or paint roller in an even coat on the floor following the wood grain. Larch plank in 3 layer construction with small bevel on long side and approx. Very vivid surface appearance. The floors can then be finished with a white oil or natural soap.

Of floor or woodwork. Today lye is commercially manufactured using a membrane cell chloralkali process it is supplied in various forms. Brushed lye treated white oil. 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.

After all the flooring is reclaimed and not meant to be 100 perfect. Floor stairs furniture and panels. Inquiry add to wishlist. The lye does not add any surface protection.

White lye treatments create a beautiful natural look on pine oak and ash floors amongst others. Apply at least one liter of lye for every 100 sq ft. The wood still requires a coat of mafi white floor oil. Type of plank.

Let the floor dry completely. Beautiful vivid surface appearance full of character. Mafi larch brushed lye treatment and white oiled. A variety of mafi products come pre coated with a wood lye treatment.

Damp mop the floor with woca intensive wood cleaner see separate instructions. 5 mm top layer with approx. Larch wide plank brushed lye treated white oil. Traditions are there to be broken.

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.