It s the same you do with white oil soap to keep the oiled floors looking fresh.
Lye soap pine floor.
Floors are simply cleaned with a solution of white soap and a flat mop.
A soap finish is also popular on floors in denmark especially on pine floors.
Then the soap is left to soak in and mopped with clean water to finish.
Depending on usage the floor needs to be washed with dinesen floor soap two to four times a month in order to build up the soap membrane.
However the floor does require commitment.
Allow the finish 24 hours to cure.
Apply the lye undiluted with a brush or paint roller in an even coat on the floor following the wood grain.
Of floor or woodwork.
The procedure for application and maintenance is the same.
He was somewhat scathing about my plan to treat the floor in the way that i had the other floors using lye and white oil and did his utmost to convince me that a wood wash and lacquer was by the.
If there is any sign after that of oil seeping back to the surface particularly from joints then contact dane care immediately for further advice.
The soap is 100 vegetable based and it soaks into the pours of the floor making a barrier against dirt.
This was a narrower 6 board of oregon pine and was certainly reclaimed timber covered in a horrible brown stain and thick with years of dirt.
White soap is a way of keeping the floors light by adding a new layer of white overtime you wash it.
The floors can then be finished with a white oil or natural soap.
White oil is also a treatment you do like i did in this post.
After the lye process has been completed the floors are mopped with a mixture of soap flakes hot water.
Cleaning wood lye treated wood floors 1.
Now to your problem.
For these whiting calcium carbonate is usually added to the soap to produce a pickled look.
Let the floor dry completely.
After extensive sanding the floors are bleached with lye which takes out the natural yellow and generally creates a raw whitewashed effect.
White lye treatments create a beautiful natural look on pine oak and ash floors amongst others.
We recommend that you give the floor a dinesen lye finish prior to the soap finish.
They need to be freshly sanded for it to give it an even look.
Pine floor being treated with faxe softwood lye.