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Deck Stain Questions and Answers
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25/01/2021 6:43 pm
About 4-5 years ago, my deck was stained with an oil based TWP product. Last year, a I hired someone to restain. Unfortunately, they used a water based Sherwin Williams stain. Now I have patches of the deck where the old stain is bleeding through. It looks terrible.
I was planning on using Restore a Deck product with the enhancers (will this product strip both stains?) . When I go do restain, should I use an oil-based or a water-based stain. Which product on your site would you recommend?
Thanks!
Topic starter
25/01/2021 11:09 pm
The grey is a solid stain. Yuck on sanding. Would it be worth trying to strip this off with one of your products?
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17/05/2021 2:01 pm
@administrator
When I initially put the boards down, I put the 'crown' side up (the wood grain at the end would have a frown).
I'm not wondering if I could just flip the boards over, sand, clean, brighten, and then re-stain. The crown of the wood would facing down. What do you think? Is that a bad practice to put the crown side down. Here are a few pics. This looks like it would be so much easier if the downsides are not too bad.
Thanks! Chris
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18/05/2021 10:48 am
What would you consider the 'easiest' approach to fixing the deck.
1. sand the grey side and prep
2. try and sand the joint stains off and prep
3. just buy new wood and start over
I put these boards down about 5-6 years ago. I could do it again. What would you consider the easiest and fastest approach?
