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Deck Stain

robson@nf.sympatico.ca

2006-05-30, 12:21 pm

I hated scraping my deck between staining jobs so I went with Olympic
semi trans. stain and it has been excellent up to now. Wifey has
changed the siding / shingle color and now wants the deck color changed
- Can another color semi be used? A blue is there now and she wants a
light brown. I understand the 1st color will always bleed through?

If I go with a solid oil stain has the scrapping issue gotten better if
prepped right?

Thanks

m Ransley

2006-05-30, 1:21 pm

Solid will still peal, there are deck stripper cleaners you powerwash
off then you can maybe stay semi transparent

NickySantoro

2006-05-30, 9:22 pm

On 30 May 2006 07:43:12 -0700, robson@nf.sympatico.ca wrote:

>I hated scraping my deck between staining jobs so I went with Olympic
>semi trans. stain and it has been excellent up to now. Wifey has
>changed the siding / shingle color and now wants the deck color changed
>- Can another color semi be used? A blue is there now and she wants a
>light brown. I understand the 1st color will always bleed through?
>
>If I go with a solid oil stain has the scrapping issue gotten better if
>prepped right?
>
>Thanks
If you have used only OB semi-trans in the past, I'd go with either
the Cabot or Behr deck stripper followed by a power wash followed by
an application of wood brightener followed by a rinse followed by a
thorough dry followed by an OB semi trans in the color of your choice.
BTDT more times than I'd care to remember. It has yet to fail.
If your thought is to go with a solid, the recommended course of
action on a previously stained deck would be to use an acrylic primer
followed by a solid latex. The new solid latex from Benjamin Moore is
really good but, IMO, the procedure outlined produces a superior job.
FWIW
YMMV

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