Lye On Oak Floors

Lye and hydrogen peroxide.

Lye on oak floors. How to video wood lye is used for lye priming of unfinished or newly sanded interior woodwork i e. The unfinished woodwork must be well sanded clean and dry before application of lye. I picked up a. White lye treatments create a beautiful natural look on pine oak and ash floors amongst others.

Our hardwood flooring was white oak but we had a lot of other wood elements like beams and built ins that would have to be built using red oak boards. Rilke after studying your site my husband and i did this on 800 sq. Our possibilities range from lye soap oil to linseed oil which are a very ecological alternative to other oils. We had to use red oak due to the limited availability of white oak.

Wood lye bleeches solid wood floors and engineered floors of solid wood and is especially used for beech oak birch maple hevea and other types of softwood or light hardwood. The floors can then be finished with a white oil or natural soap. Mild non corrosive and easy to use for a professional woodworking enthusiast or diyer. Clean with 125 ml wood cleaner mixed with 5 l water.

The treatment of the wood flooring depends first and foremost on the kind of colour you are looking for but also the intensity of use of the entire floor. Woca wood lye helps the wood from yellowing over time and adds pigment white or grey to the wood grain. Woca wood lye is compatible with all wood species particularly white oak. I wish the color was a little stronger.

We got the supplies from a company outside of atlanta. After extensive sanding the floors are bleached with lye which takes out the natural yellow and generally creates a raw whitewashed effect. Of blond oak parquet floor. My only regret is we didn t put two layers of lye down.