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Still around Big Mike, working the medical stuff alot, still doing existing customers maintenance. Doing just fine here spoiling 5 grandkids now. reed

Just stopped by, saw this thread was still active. Russ started this in 05. WOW. interesting to see how prices are gonna be with this economy. Hope all are well. reed

I do a "trade off"/bartering if you want to call it bartering. I redo a deck, about 900sf of wood every two years in return for a key to 248 acres of land to hunt on. GOOD TRADE in my book. reed

I vote OTHER, I hate call backs stating there are several boards that didn't take the stain. When I go check it out, it is only the difference seen when on piece of wood is heart wood and the other is sap wood. You just can't explain enough to customers the difference in wood densities and stain appearance.

I have 3 decks and 1 *&^%^&** fence waiting to get started. Damn weather!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought the price would go up this year. I will be raising my prices again also. Doing more maintenance decks these days than new ones.

It is the first link, the second one is the organization trying to do the right thing. reed

Folks, this will stir the blood of every PATRIOT. KSDK NewsChannel 5 - Video Center It is not just here in Missouri, but all across our great nation. check this site out for more numbers (at the bottome of the home page). Missing in America Project Reed

In the 8 years of using ready seal, I have never had any sort of combustion occurance.

Congrats to you and your daughter. Please thank her for her service from me and over 87,000 members of the Patriot Guard.

On my third deck already and am booked till the end of May. Just need the weather to cooperate. This time of year is all iffy on the weather. Tornado time. We are lucky that the hail hasn't started yet.

I really like that color. I always thought that the red cedar was perfect for the IPE, or around here, Brazillian Ironwood.

They don't strip either. If your deck has a prior stain on it they don't strip, but clean and put their silicone crap on it. Here in the St. Louis area they have quite a few BBB actions. Plus, they are way over priced, almost double of what you and I would charge. Product was developed for concrete overpasses, not wood. Say away from this stuff and discourage it's use on wood whenever you can. MHO.

I'm with Jim. Not necessary to mask these. As stated, just keep them wet and you should be good to go. Also, when you neutralize be sure to rinse the spindles. They will sometimes have residue of the brightner on them when it dries. I always keep a rag damp with mineral spirits and wipe each spindle as I roll on the stain. This will get off any ReadySeal and residue from you brightner. reed

There is a Sparkle Wash in my area. Way underbids anyone else here. That's all I can say in an open forum about this.