Lye Treatment For Floors

After all the flooring is reclaimed and not meant to be 100 perfect.

Lye treatment for floors.

The priming prevents the wood from yellowing and enhances the wood grain creating a coloured wash effect depending on the chosen colour. Type of plank. 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.

Larch plank in 3 layer construction with small bevel on long side and approx. Inquiry add to wishlist. White lye treatments create a beautiful natural look on pine oak and ash floors amongst others. 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.

Floor stairs furniture and panels. Of floor or woodwork. The lye does not add any surface protection. Very vivid surface appearance.

Damp mop the floor with woca intensive wood cleaner see separate instructions. Lye treatment is suitable for all conifers floors staircases ceilings etc for indoor use. A hard wearing conifer floor. 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.

5 mm top layer with approx. The wood still requires a coat of mafi white floor oil. Wood lye may be used on all types of wood. Apply at least one liter of lye for every 100 sq ft.

Wood lye is used for priming of unfinished or newly sanded interior woodwork i e. A variety of mafi products come pre coated with a wood lye treatment. 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. Beautiful vivid surface appearance full of character.

Mafi larch brushed lye treatment and white oiled. Let the floor dry completely. Larch wide plank brushed lye treated white oil. Brushed lye treated white oil.

Apply the lye undiluted with a brush or paint roller in an even coat on the floor following the wood grain. The lye can have different effects on certain species of woods. 5 mm backing in the same wood and middle layer conifer. A hard wearing conifer floor.

Lye most commonly refers to sodium hydroxide naoh but historically has been used for potassium hydroxide koh.