Should I buy a deckster? Your vote will decide.

I am sure that others will chime in here, but in my humble opinion, wood work is becoming more problematic. With a system like the deckster, you are limited to the product that you can apply in the manner that applies it from what demo's I have seen. I use ready seal and it would work well with the deckster, but i think thats where it ends. I have been brushing them for ease fo application, able to cut in edges and not a bunch of prep work.
 
I remember when Chris first started talking about the deckster back 1999 on live yahoo chats.

I would say its stood the test of time , my thoughts don't count for much no sealing wood for me now or in the future.

Good luck


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I'll be making my own product. A friend helped me some trade secrets. Im offering one color, for now. Take or leave it. It's a good color, bulletproof product. I've seen my friends work and its good. There is money with decks for me now because I'm not a one man show anymore. Most of the money is in the prep. It could be a deal breaker if you don't do the deck along with the house, roof, etc. Airless is tough. I once got overspray on a new Infinity...across the street...3 houses down.
 
Ed, if you can, give Adrian Carrier at ABC there in the Houston area a call.

He has a Deckster and has rebuilt it before and can help you in your decision and can offer some great advice and he has been doing wood restoration for a number of years and can offer some tips and advice on all kinds of things.
 
All i do is wood. 100%. We use the deckster pretty regularly it holds up awesome. I dont clean it out or take care of it but when it start acting up i just run a bunch of stripper in it and cleans it right up

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Ed Thompson said:
I never really gave much credence to deck services. But I got this now. Been making money, and having a few problems, but also making money with decks. Can you please help a poor fool and let me know if the deckster is a good investment for its cost?
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Go ahead and get one.... you will love it on staining decks. I bought mine 7 years ago and it is still going. The only thing I have had to do to mine was replace the on/off switch once and buy a new battery, but that is it.

The Deckster, as long as you keep using the original hose and fittings that come with it, it is a sealed system so leaving the stain in the hoses and pump is just like leaving the stain sealed up tight in the can so I never clean mine out either. I do run some stripper through it about once a year and I have broken the wand down and soaked it in stipper and it just keeps running like new.

I was cleaning a roof once using a shurflo pump when all of a sudden it went out on me. I had the Deckster in the truck so I got it out and was able to finish the job. I even used it once to apply Seal' n Lock and it worked good on that, but that was one time I made sure I cleaned it out very thoroughly because Seal' n Lock Super Wet is a two part urethane and can set up even in a sealed system.

I would not recommend the Deckster for roof cleaning or putting down Seal ' Lock, but that proves it can get you out of some fixes other than staining decks.

I have seen other people try to make their own version of the Deckster, but the Deckster is so well designed and performs so well, I think it is a very smart investment if you are doing wood.
 
I'm biased to some extent but I own three decksters for my crews and nothing out there has lasted as long for us. They aren't cheap, but they are worth every dime in my opinion. There are a couple similar designs out ther and I've bought them in the past to save money but they never ran well for any length of time so it ended up being wasted money in the long run that I should have just used to buy the best one, which is the deckster. Here is a link to the manufacturer http://www.pressurewashsupplies.com/catalog/Deckster_Deck_Sprayer_and_Accessories-11-1.html
 
Any good shurflo/diaphragm pump setup with a decent wand will work for thin liquids. The deckster has a lot of bells and whistles, but you can spend $200 and have a setup that will do the same thing.
 
I just built one. But it seems to me that the stain is coming out way to fast. I will need to tweek it some, but adam is right. for 2 hundred you can build your own. sheeeet if i can do it anyone can. 800 is just out of my ballpark. (for now)
 
I don't own one, so I couldn't tell you what pump they use. I know people that own them always rave about it, so it must be good, but in the end it's a pump on a cart with a spray wand. Not hard to do something similar, or nearly as expensive.

To some it's not about the expense, it will pay for itself. Time is money, so for some, sourcing the parts and building their own is more costly than just purchasing one that is ready to go out of the box.

I don't think you could go wrong buying one. It's purpose built, and very well built at that, so the choice is really up to you.
 
I have a pump tec system to apply oil and a surflow ( two pumps on a cart 1.5 and 3.8 )system to apply chem's. Had the surflow set ups to do everything when I first started 1.5's two separate little carts. Better to have two of the surflow setups with you at all times. The pump tec system went 6 to 7 years before I replaced last year with a new one .
 
Short answer, yes, get it. I have a decker 5er, pretty similar setup and its great. My next one will be a deckster though as its bypass is not internal so it will last longer. Both of these pumps are made to run constantly with a bypass, not on demand like most 12v pumps people are familiar with. The advantage is that if you get their wand and brass cone tip, you can adjust pressure and flow and spray pattern instantly without going back to the machine. I can't explain how nice this is. I've sprayed decks and fences and shake with strippers, briteners, stains and even did a partial roof with it. Its works great for everything but sodium percarb because the oxygenating chokes out the pump and it stops prime. I did modify mine cause it doesn't prime as well as the deckster so i put a bulkhead on the bottom of my bucket so its gravity fed.
 
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