Tell me about deck maintenance

[iris lilies]

We have a new outdoor deck that has not been sealed, stained, etc. I need to hire someone to do it this year.


Do they stain it, then seal it? Is there even such a thing as a seal?


I am vision is happening with a spraygun. Is that how is normally done?

[littlebittybobby]

We have a new outdoor deck that has not been sealed, stained, etc. I need to hire someone to do it this year.


Do they stain it, then seal it? Is there even such a thing as a seal?


I am vision is happening with a spraygun. Is that how is normally done?Okay---I would just go ahead and make DH do the work. As you've said many times--He is very gifted, and can do anything. But yeah---The money saved can be used for various worthwhile things---trips and restaurant meals, for instance. That said---Good luck!

[Tybee]

All I ever did with the one on the house I flipped was to powerwash it and then stain it again. Check out Cabot website:
Premium Woodcare Products for Your Deck | Cabot® Stain (cabotstain.com) (https://www.cabotstain.com/en)

[iris lilies]

All I ever did with the one on the house I flipped was to powerwash it and then stain it again. Check out Cabot website:
Premium Woodcare Products for Your Deck | Cabot® Stain (cabotstain.com) (https://www.cabotstain.com/en)

would it need power washing if the wood is only a year old?

[iris lilies]

Okay---I would just go ahead and make DH do the work. As you've said many times--He is very gifted, and can do anything. But yeah---The money saved can be used for various worthwhile things---trips and restaurant meals, for instance. That said---Good luck!

i’m tired of waiting for DH to do it. I am hiring work done that can be easily hired.

He is building a stone wall and you cannot get people to do that. No one knows how to do that work. But deck finishing – – easy to hire out.

[jp1]

Our deck is stained but not sealed. Contractor did not recommend dealing because in a few years it would need to be redone and ‘unsealing’ it would be a headache. Easier to just restrain it every few years.

It’s been two years and needs to be stained again because the sun has pretty much bleached all the stain into invisibility.

[Teacher Terry]

Yes you have to stain it every few years. It’s a pain.

[jp1]

Yes you have to stain it every few years. It’s a pain.

Yes, and now we have to buy new stain even though we still had half a quart left, presumably enough to redo it this time. I'd moved the container from the garage to the corner of the deck a month ago, waiting for the weather to dry out, and forgot about it. Last week while I was out of town for work it got pretty warm here and apparently heated up the can enough to make the lid pop off. When I went outside over the weekend to mow the lawn and such I noticed this and the stain inside the can had dried out into a solid mass. Blah. I have no idea what another quart of the stuff will cost.