Woca wood lye helps the wood from yellowing over time and adds pigment white or grey to the wood grain.
Lye on oak floors.
The hydrogen peroxide was easy to find.
How to video wood lye is used for lye priming of unfinished or newly sanded interior woodwork i e.
Woca wood lye is compatible with all wood species particularly white oak.
I picked up a.
Lye and hydrogen peroxide.
Of blond oak parquet floor.
After extensive sanding the floors are bleached with lye which takes out the natural yellow and generally creates a raw whitewashed effect.
So i decided to make my own wood bleach.
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.
I wish the color was a little stronger.
Rilke after studying your site my husband and i did this on 800 sq.
The floors can then be finished with a white oil or natural soap.
Our possibilities range from lye soap oil to linseed oil which are a very ecological alternative to other oils.
Mild non corrosive and easy to use for a professional woodworking enthusiast or diyer.
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.
We had to use red oak due to the limited availability of white oak.
The unfinished woodwork must be well sanded clean and dry before application of lye.
Floor stairs furniture and panels.
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.
We got the supplies from a company outside of atlanta.