James

With Ipe it's very simple. T he Best it will loook is when you finish it and then turn the timer on. Because when you get the check it has already started to degrade !!

How old is the deck? You may have to buff it off. If the wood hasn't degraded enough to remove the top layer of grey mechanical means must be used.

Just rinse them well or a little acid will reverse the action. I've had the same connectors from the start.

Port Orford Spindles $5 .25 a piece at the local high end lumber yard.

Hey , What's it like out there from Nov to March weather wise? Can you do wood year round? I like Redwood!

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Rick u should of stayed another 5 days! Happy Two Zero!

John , that is wonderful! Congratulation....

Please tell me how it will make the wood fuzzyer? Neutralization works better as the wood gets toward 20 % moisture so more acid gets into the wood. Most people do it right after stripping and the wood is to wet and it only effects the top of the wood. You can make the stripper stop working by a good rinsing and a good rain will help the situation. I have never had a problem and this has happen to me several times where I didn't neutralize until the next day ( nofuzballs) either.

Great example of how RS holds up. I did a complete property maint. today ,Washed house, deck, windows. This is the third time was there 3 years ago. I did the deck first and then the house. Packed up the my stuff and the washed the windows. By the time I finished the windows the deck was dry. Put my window stuff away and oiled the deck. Total time 5 hours $670.

I have some Wood Sentry also using Monday( inventor of WT).When you compare products you have to compare like product. Apples to Apples. Comparing RS to AC is like comparing Apples to Oranges unless you add some Linseed to RS. I have fooled around with adding Linseed to RS for a while because I have issues with cedar up to 3 years old ( cedar is a pain is the **%# first application). The problem is keeping color on the surface which linseed will do by holding it there. Then the issue becomes maintenance of the surface. RS might look like crap after two years but it's still working. In conclusion AC looks like a solution for my cedar issue but adding Boiled linseed to RS does work and I'm still playing with At the lower New England Wood laboratory . .

Its ok as long as you do a good rinsing . It might just come out better.

A great comparison is AC vs WooDrIch. Why? They are both have similar features drying and nondrying oils. Just like RS should be compared to Timbor oil because they are similar non drying oils. Understanding the function of a product and how it works down the road with regards to maintenance is more important. How it breaks down from the sun and weather. Is it going to be easier or more difficult than the first time you did the job?Who has done a maintenance you can talk too? How many people have actually use a product multi times on the same deck? I have used AC on some small projects with good results and no opinion formed yet. I do understand how I will use the product and what woods I will trial!I have many projects with a sort of WoodRich because I was blending my own before it came out. The earlier WT version was much better. It produced a harder shell and feared better with regards to weathering. The newer stuff comes off like butter but I still use it.

It's not the product. Your putting to much on. Anything that doesn't sink in has to be wiped off.Any product not absorbed by the wood remains where?

Use Noah or a Phosphoric based cleaner. I use Phosphoric to clean boats.

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I had stuff stolen off my trailer and a camera out of the front seat of my truck while a got a coffee in a town with no crime.

I've cleaned many stone surfaces where I get very dirty( moss on Brick, blue stone, ect...) but gross has another meaning. Like a dog breeder and a hundred poops on the deck from the winter( will not go back). I cleaned all the piping in a parking garage ( bird poop and gunk) before a college graduation.

Rick, I like the word Dolt! Hate : Standing still Love: Passing time

Number one you where correct. You should of stripped it and came back in 6 months. Now the same thing that happened to the ATO is happening to the WTW. The Ipe has to loose it's color and some of it's extractives for something to enter it. Some people get it and some don't. I did a deck and waited 6 month( WT) and returned in 6 months and my deck looked like yours but I told them it would look like it did. The longer you wait the better and longer the finish will last. A fact that is being missed here is the contractor didn't follow the ATO instructions. Which states to wait 8 weeks or so before the application of product and follow up with a recoat in 3 to 6 months. I have not seen the instructions in a while so they might be a bit different.

Looks like The RED WOOD I take care of and it has a long LegAcy ?

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