Hi,
Thanks for the responses!
Ok... two pac is.. well I guess my term for paint consisting of two parts, something like an epoxy resin you would use for glue. If there's a better term for this let me know.
I live in Australia and have installed "tasmainian oak" flooring, which everyone tells me is really victorain ask, though the receipt reads "oak" and that's how I would prefer to address it =)
You can read about the timber grading on the website:
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But to sum-up the term "feature" means that the timber contains clearly visible imperfections like sapwood and other "features" like pen marks and dead borer channels. Select grade is the highest, whereby the timber doesn't contain any "features" High feature is the worst grade used by either the tragically poor, or the "shabby chic".
Most of the pictures that you see on the tasmanian oak website show "select" grade flooring. Feature grade on the other hand contains gum veins, or sapwood. When you paint sapwood, it turns a very dark colour, that in general probably increases the general darkness of the floor.
My understanding of "liming" is that the timber has a wiped treatment of light paint before being sealed.
So, in saying that, my concern is that liming the floor might result in overly white lines in the timber due the the sap veins and also due to the inability to sand the "two pac" finish from these veins or cracks. I'm also concerned that it might result in a generally distatsteful finish. Only today I heard the comment that "it's a 90's finish"!!
I've since had another look (no digital camera, so can't take photos) and think that I should perhaps mix a touch of white enamel paint in with the "two pac" varnish (Wattyl 7008) to provide a lighter consistent finish.
Any further comments?!
Cheers,