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Thanks Rick. I'll be using a Graco XR7 commercial airless sprayer and I'll look into the paraffinic stains.

I'm going to painting 3 houses starting this weekend and decided to invest in a paint sprayer to make life easier. My question however, is that I want to be able to spray stain with it when doing decks or fences. I'm a solo guy and have no problem appying stain with a brush but if I spray it on, does it have to be brushed into the grain afterwards or can it just be sprayed and left alone? I've seen a couple vides on youtube with guys spraying it but they always have a helper dragging a cloth pad or something behind the sprayer to "massage" it into the wood. How could I do this easily by myself? Also, if i am spraying stain on a fence instead of brushing it on, do I still need to go over the wet stain with a cloth or spunge afterwards? What would work pretty good for that if so? Or should I just go over it with a big stain brush to get rid of excess stain where it collects? Thanks for the tips, Eric.

I'd like to know what others charge for this type of work also as I'm about to pas out my flyers for some work and would like to know what to charge people.

MAYBE....But no.... I'm off on weekends and i dont sit around chatting on forums in my spare time. . I have plenty of time to do that at my reg job. (now)

Well considering I'm in my 20's and tight on cash and they are in thier 50's and both retired execs from a large computer comp and live VERY comfy, I have no problem taking money from them when offered.

Hey Bro! I mentioned I only had 1 day to research this and trust me when I say I spent several hours while I was at my day job surfing this forum and others TRYING to find some usefull info but was unable to find anything pertaining my my exact question. For someone to say "Yeah just use some dish soap and bleach on it" as a solution is not very good advice to give a beginner thus the reason I asked for specifics.

Thanks for the info, I'll know for next time. Unfortunately i dint know what type of cleach to use so i only used a strong mix of detergent and it seemed to work pretty well. It was my first deck job but turned out pretty good.

46 views and I comment... I guess I should have known better from last time I asked a simple question. Do you have to be a seasoned "pro" to get any "usefull" info on this forum?

Can someone elaborate on this for me a little? I would research this myself by time is the main factor here. I'll likely skip the bleach but can someone tell me how much dish soap to use per a 5 gallon bucket of water?

Exact same product going on.... So what type of dish soap? What type of bleach? How much do I mix? Do I mix them together with water and downstream the premix? Or do I mix them seperately for a bleach clean and then a soap clean? Sorry for the lack of knowledge. He just brough this up to me last night and wants it done tomorrow so I havnt had much time to figure all of this out and If I dont do it, he'll hire someone else because he want s to restain the deck next week.

What if your client doenst want the current stain stripped away because they are applying the same color stain? Should you just use a detergent and then rinse it? Any bleach with the detergent?

The summer is finally here and my in-laws hired me for my first job. They have a large stained deck that they want cleaned so that my father in-law can restain it. He doesnt want the current stain stripped because he's redoing it the same color, just cleaned to get all the dirt and grime off. Are there any chems I should use to help with the cleaning prossess? I have Simple Cherry from PT but should I even use a detergent or cleaner at all or just plain water? Whats the max pressure I should use? 900-1000? I dont wanna screw up my in-laws deck the first time I clean it. He's paying me 150.00 just to clean it and if he likes it said he'd let me do it every few months. I also have a 19" surface claner shoud I use that on wood or could it dammage the surface? Thanks for the advice guys...

Ahh... I 've got an orbital sander so it might do the trick. Thanks for the idea...

I am trying to remove black spray paint from the wood planks on my trailer. I bought it new just a few weeks ago but they halfass spray painted the wood for some reason and it looks like crap. Yesterday I hammered it with a strong concentrate of F18 or F13 (which ever one is the stripper) and it only removed paint in the areas where it wasnt applied very heavily. The outter sides of the trailer are caked with it on there and even went back and applied a second coat and let it sit about 30 minutes instead of 20 minutes like the first time and still didnt pull much of it off. How can i get this crap off my wood so i can stain it? BTW, I was wearing shorts and caught some over spray from the chems on my leg and with in seconds my leg was burning like hell... I guess this stuff works pretty good. ;)

Wow.. You guys were quick to Gene's defense without seeing this rig in person or the actual condition of his equipment. I would have spent an entire day just cleaning the spiderwebs and junk off of everything. Not to mention having to trash half of the stuff because it was in such poor condition. But hey, to each his own right? I'm VERY happy with my decision to not buy it and have been practicing with the machine I did purcahse. It's a new cold water unit I got from Bob at PT and it's more than enough for residential and wood restoration which is my main focus. I even bought a new surfacer and trailer without holes in the floor or completey rusted out matierals! Good luck to you on saling your rig Gene! ;)