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25/03/2016 9:11 pm
We have six very large poplar trees on our lot that litter our yard with acidic seeds every spring. They eat through car paint, permanently stain our rugs if they're stuck to your shoes (no stain removers seem to remove these brown-colored smudges) and peel the coatings off our cedar deck—on which I've previously used solid stains.
I'm going to strip what's on our old cedar decking this spring and re-stain it. I came across this site the other day.
Can someone recommend a product that might resist the seeds? I'm thinking of going with some kind of transparent stain this time.
Thanks ahead for any advice!
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26/03/2016 7:06 am
Quote from administrator on March 25, 21:20
I doubt any stain will resist the seeds if they are that acidic. FYI, stripping a solid stain off and going transparent is nearly impossible to do. Strippers do not remove solid stains completely and in some cases, not at all. You would have to sand to get it all off most likely.
Thanks for this.
Sanding should remove everything and I'm prepared to do that. I'll then be left with old, bare cedar. What the seeds do is stick to the surface (the chemicals in them tend not to permeate into what they stick to) so I'm thinking a stain that is absorbed by the wood will penetrate (I'm guessing) an 1/8" or 1/16" into the wood. If it is that deep then the seeds won't remove it.
When they finally stop falling, I remove the seeds off our deck and driveway with a pressure washer. It's about the only way I can get the nasties out!
Can you recommend a stain that I can use after sanding? My only option is to leave the wood bare—I'd like to at least try some sort of transparent product before giving up. Thanks...
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30/03/2016 2:59 am
Thanks very much for your input! Have some things to think about now...
