https://forum.deckstainhelp.com/deck-stain-questions-and-answers/recreating-preserving-weathered-siding-look/ Deck Stain Help Forum Discussion Board en-US Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:04:29 +0000 wpForo 60 https://forum.deckstainhelp.com/deck-stain-questions-and-answers/recreating-preserving-weathered-siding-look/#post-8179 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:09:54 +0000 Deck Stain Questions and Answers Scott Paul ~ Restoring Wood & Decks Since 1993 https://forum.deckstainhelp.com/deck-stain-questions-and-answers/recreating-preserving-weathered-siding-look/#post-8179 https://forum.deckstainhelp.com/deck-stain-questions-and-answers/recreating-preserving-weathered-siding-look/#post-8177 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 04:57:21 +0000
We are trying to decide how to protect the redwood siding on our vacation home on the California coast. It gets a lot of weather in the winter, so the siding deteriorates from cupping, cracking, and continual cycles of rain and sun.
We are trying to preserve the siding, and prefer the naturally weathered, silver appearance of old redwood. We've had some of the siding on the weathered sides redone last year, and some other the year before. The latter walls are now perfect in color so a clear preservative would add some protection (admittedly not as much as a stain, but stains always look too uniform and artificial from what we have seen).

Some of the siding will need to be cleaned before treatment to get rid of black algae stain.

California now requires low VOC paints and stains; right now TWP 1500 looks promising, but we are also looking at Cabot, Olympic, and Superdeck. From reading on the 'net it sounds like the new low VOC formulations do NOT work as well as the original oil-based, high VOC formulas.

Any recommendations, including links to websites that might be helpful, would be much appreciated.
]]> Deck Stain Questions and Answers Stan Tillinghast https://forum.deckstainhelp.com/deck-stain-questions-and-answers/recreating-preserving-weathered-siding-look/#post-8177