Jennifer, I am impressed! You did not excellent job with the entire process!

1) dry next to yellow house 2) dry on overcast day 3) dry on overcast day (from beam back is covered with tin roof which is why it looks darker)

Loading three photos: 1) cleaned deck (and per my other post i think you could def. skip the olympic part, we only did it bc we hadnt yet found TWP)...

I recently stained my deck with TWP 1500 california redwood. It's a 14X30 deck. We first pressure washed the deck, then applied Olympic cleaner, scr...

Possibly but they still will not match.

You really should wait a month or two to let the wood dry more. TWP actually suggest wasting a year. Cracks are going to happen no matter what. The st...

I was also wondering about mixing stains, but my circumstances are quite a bit different. Based on the response to the original question I doubt I'm ...

I would not mix brands together. If you want to switch down the road it would be best to remove the Sikkens with a stain stripper first.

If it is not tinted then it will not have UV protection from turning gray. I would look at Armstrong Clark in the Amber Color.

We really like the Honeytone and the Cedartone colors for the 1500 Series.

thanks. would flipping them be a better choice than replacing for uniformity in color?

I would stain within a couple of weeks after washing.