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Thanks Greg. Hey, we missed you in Tampa this weekend

John, that us one of the coolest things I have ever read. Thanks for doing this. Excellent choices for the recipients.

The method with Seal n Lock is to wash in sand after cleaning. But its designed to seal wet pavers. If your using an acrylic, you cant really do that, because the sand stays wet far longer than the pavers. What I used to do with acrylic sealers is apply sealer, come back later and broom in dry sand then add a light coat of sealer. It was too time intensive. Thats one of the reasons I was sold on SealNLock.

yes, Replace whatever you wash out.

Clark. There is a lady from long island that will cal you. Neda a complete strip and reseal. Have no idea how far that is away.

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I hate those things. Like my wife says. "stupid alergies" (you know- the tears and all) My kids school did that. They had a staff member in Iraq, and brought him home for their annual fundraising banquet. Had his wife and kid on stage and made like they were calling him on skype, but it wasnt working. So the Head master said, well maybe we can do better. and he walks out from behind the curtain. Total shock and surprise to his wife who had talked to him in Iraq the day before. It was really cool.

Your welcome in advance. So you don't incur any more wrath

Go with the big guy. Its worth the money.

the classic is just too light for that kind of flow. Get a WW big guy, or a heaver model. The wider cleaning path will speed things up too with out lifting up.

I've got this almost down to a science, anyone need any help with it, feel free to call me,

Got a call from a lady that is worried about her old wood deck leaching arsenic. Do the stains on the market stop leaching. I remember reading about it years ago, but can't find the info now

Here is a travertine deck that I sealed with SealNLock this week. Its something isn't it.

Aint it though. The pictures dont do it justice

A few more.

Heres a time lapse video I made of the paver intall at my house. I cant wait to seal them!

Any one in long island do paver striping? call me or email me at ppcleanandseal@gmail.com for lead info.

I've become disgusted with the market here in regards to wood restoration. I have decided to just offer cleaning, and re-applying the same product as was there before. If not sure, put a water based solid. No more stripping. The market just doesn't bear the cost. I think I price fairly for a complete strip, but my competitors (usually painters) just quick clean and apply whatever. Tired of wasting time on estimates to be beat by a $500 dollar bid. I recently did a dock and reapplied Flood Spa N Deck (which I hate) and another dock with..... Behr supreme. And they came out beautifully. no more stripping. give the customer a beautiful finished product. They dont really care how long it lasts, they wont call for maintenance for 4-5 years anyway or until the move. And they wont pay for real restoration work. And I make money. Quickly. No more killing myself over what turns out to be my least profitable service catagory.

I have to ask Doug. What would be the purpose of measuring the rpm of a surface cleaner?

I had to work around this the other night. Needles to say, they didnt leave the keys with the valet

we went right up to it and around. Always wanted to test the limits of my insurance policy

Here is a good for instance. I called a customer that I did a dock and gazebo for to schedule a courtesy evaluation for maintenance. I had stripped and stained with wood tux. Beautiful job at what was then a pretty reasonable price. His response. "Nah, My son is going to do it. He needs some extra money " This was an executive in a million dollar waterfront home! Now imagine the normal joe blow in a 150K home with an estimate for $1500 to strip, sand, repl a couple boards, stain with a high quality stain or a $600 clean and apply a water based solid. Im just bowing to reality and moving on to more profitable work. Plus my calls have gone from 75-100 estimates a year to less than 20 last year with only 4 landed. Thats a pretty poor percentage. And Im still #1 in my area on searches for deck sealing. I will still do what is right on a deck when I can get the money for it, but Im saying Im going to try to be a better judge of my client and not overdo it. Give them what they want, not what I want.

Its not a matter of joining them. The flood Spa n Deck is extremely hard to remove. If I know what it is, why bother stripping and staining with something else. Same with the Behr Supreme. There is no more liability than with anything else. In fact, stripping a dock of old stain opens up a huge can of worms, as opposed to a percarb cleaning and re-staining. How would it leave me wide open to anything, Rod? Im still going to prep it better than any of the painters I see doing decks. I still use proper cleaning, neutralizing and staining techniques. Im just tired of presenting the best option as the only option. Few of my estimates know the difference. I can educate them I'm blue in the face. Some will go with the cheaper guy because he didnt try to educate them, he just gave them what they wanted, or at least a finished product. 2 years down the road when it fails the customer may not be in the same house, or the other guy may not be around. I'm just being realistic in my market.

Sodium Percarb with a little NP9. For those that do decks full time and have great success with it, I give you mega kudo's. And I have had success in the past. I still get calls, although not as many as in the past, because my website works. But like Clark said, it really is an uphill battle in certain areas of the country. Rick Petry asked me when he flew into Orlando. How do you make a living doing decks? he couldn't see one deck from the plane. Thats one of the problems, not enough decks. The other is an attitude of Cheapness that runs through Florida (more so than other areas of the country, especially in urban markets. ) People are used to hiring contractors that are happy to make $10 an hour. Its a shame, but Ive replaced it with paver sealing and am doing great with it. Thats a money maker in these parts, and Ive been able to do better combatting the cheap guys.

Safe restore works well. Ox should work too, but mix strong. Remember each of these will leave a nice bright spot in the driveway, so plan on doing the whole drive and price accordingly