Redwood Sided House Restoration

This house is from 1950 and the new homeowners did not know it was a redwood sided house. The restoration of the wood was outstanding and the end result is you can still see the lighter and darker planks. Customer wanted to see the grain and the wood characteristics but also wanted this red tone. A little more red for my taste but they are very happy! I intermixed 1/2 a gallon of Cabot Tile Red Stain to 4 gallons of Deck Restoration Plus Shamong Red to get the desired color.
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I just love when you can talk a customer away from painting the wood and you get a result they are happy with and can still see the wood grain and character. This was actually a referral from a home improvement store and another customer. Got another house to do from this one already and we just finished yesterday. I have been intermixing for years and it is a great way to still use transparent type stains and tweak them to give a customer a little of a desired color or tone as well as have a more consistent finish on older wood and still show grain.
 
Nice, very nice. Your work always looks great. I went and spoke with a gentleman 2 weeks ago about plowing his driveway. During my visit I brought up the condition of his cedar home. He told me that he was going to bring in some painters next spring to paint it. He really had no idea what was possible. After showing him some pictures and explaining/educating him about my process he was all about stripping and staining. I have all winter to build a relationship so I better not mess this one up. LOL
 
Steve, thanks I hope that customer works out for you! Once they realize what we can do it usually work out when we see their face at the end! Thanks Jim, you are so right about redwood. I do love the look of the homeowners face though during restoration when the whole side of the house is black and they look at you like "are you sure you know what you are doing?"
 
I'm living in my second Redwood home... here in Missouri... where nobody seems to know anything about how to preserve the naturual beauty of it... Great JOB, I might comment... While the maintenance is relatively high, as opposed to most other options... the look is like no other. BTW... where's the best place to purchace Sodium Percarbonate nowadays??? (High concentrate, low price, preferably)??? I tried it a few years ago, but, could not find a good source, concentrate was too low, and the big box stores and paint stores weren't much help either... Still using a mix of TSP and bleach to this day, as a result... (but, low solution of bleach, as I know it kills the wood along with the mold, etc...
 
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I just love when you can talk a customer away from painting the wood and you get a result they are happy with and can still see the wood grain and character. This was actually a referral from a home improvement store and another customer. Got another house to do from this one already and we just finished yesterday. I have been intermixing for years and it is a great way to still use transparent type stains and tweak them to give a customer a little of a desired color or tone as well as have a more consistent finish on older wood and still show grain.

I so agree... most every cedar or redwood home in our area eventually seems to turn grey, or black... and then... out come the "painters" who cover it up with some "non transparent, solid pigment latex, STAIN"... "problem solved"... NOT!!!

I appreciate your passion...
 
I'm living in my second Redwood home... here in Missouri... where nobody seems to know anything about how to preserve the naturual beauty of it... Great JOB, I might comment... While the maintenance is relatively high, as opposed to most other options... the look is like no other. BTW... where's the best place to purchace Sodium Percarbonate nowadays??? (High concentrate, low price, preferably)??? I tried it a few years ago, but, could not find a good source, concentrate was too low, and the big box stores and paint stores weren't much help either... Still using a mix of TSP and bleach to this day, as a result... (but, low solution of bleach, as I know it kills the wood along with the mold, etc...
 
I'm living in my second Redwood home... here in Missouri... where nobody seems to know anything about how to preserve the naturual beauty of it... Great JOB, I might comment... While the maintenance is relatively high, as opposed to most other options... the look is like no other. BTW... where's the best place to purchace Sodium Percarbonate nowadays??? (High concentrate, low price, preferably)??? I tried it a few years ago, but, could not find a good source, concentrate was too low, and the big box stores and paint stores weren't much help either... Still using a mix of TSP and bleach to this day, as a result... (but, low solution of bleach, as I know it kills the wood along with the mold, etc...

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