Lightning Gene
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With a little help from my friends I think Im better on staining decks. Ordered a Deckster last week and hope it makes it easier and faster that by paint pad......How does this deck look ?
12.5 SH and water.......neutralized with Dawn and water
Really?
I would use more of a percarbonate for grey wood to clean, although the bleach debate has and will continue. Never heard of using Dawn to neutralize - try oxalic.
Deck looks good IMO, however, a few minutes sanding would really add to the Wow factor, especially on the ends of the floorboards.
Never used RS, but have heard that it can lap pretty easy - might be careful cutting in too many boards at a time like you have done near the house.
Customer did not want any sanding or wood replacement as I suggested we are still going to stain the ends....as for the wall cut ins...I did that on purpose to see if I could go back and stain with no lap marks where we started again ....we did feather the cuts ouy.....Ready Seal did a great job with no marks in the deck anywhere...applied with paint pad on a pole ....
Really?
I would use more of a percarbonate for grey wood to clean, although the bleach debate has and will continue. Never heard of using Dawn to neutralize - try oxalic.
Deck looks good IMO, however, a few minutes sanding would really add to the Wow factor, especially on the ends of the floorboards.
Never used RS, but have heard that it can lap pretty easy - might be careful cutting in too many boards at a time like you have done near the house.
Dawn as a neutrilizer? I don't think so. I'm willing to bet that if you ran a lit strip on it the deck would not be nuetrilized.
If I can offer any advice, Gene, it would be to avoid the use of dish soap on wood. Dish detergent is usually a high-sudsing soap. Makes "thorough and complete" rinsing very hard to do within a reasonable time frame. Since the soap carries some amount of bleach or sodium hydroxide into the wood (your action chemicals) failing to rinse until ALL traces of suds are gone means that some of the action chemical stays in the wood too. This could lead to a condition called "saponification" where the residue cleaner left in the wood attacks the oil sealer you apply on top of it.
In all of the cleaners we make for wood, we avoid high-sudsers completely - opting for cleaners that rinse easily and fast. All you want from a soap is a little "lift", Gene, because your action chemical does all the work. I would steer completely away from dish soap on wood and find a more wood-friendly cleaner.
Great news, Gene. The last parts we need for Decksters are expected to ship to us tomorrow. I figure we will get them in to us by next Monday. I promise to get yours built and out the door as quickly as possible once we get the stuff that is back-ordered!
With a little help from my friends I think Im better on staining decks. Ordered a Deckster last week and hope it makes it easier and faster that by paint pad......How does this deck look ?