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What stain is on the house now? I would hope no more than 8-9 hours 1 person spraying the chems one p/washing.You work on 1 section at a time strip/brighten/rinse oneside at a time till you are done.

Thanks Beth :cool: I've always used bleach and soap to clean un-treated decks.I see a lot of mildew and bleach gets the job done fast and works great.It's hard for me to think another chem could make this look any better. I've never used a percarb to clean decks. Does it work like a mild stripper? I know what ya saying that bleach can harm the wood if not used properly.I've had a few customers that did a number on their deck cleaning with bleach.I was left to salvage their mess with the bleach and the p/washer with a 0 tip.I thought he was trying to write his name in his deck. :D This deck will be in Gray Away Brown as dark as i can get it the sun is horrible in that yard. (Bleach doesn't kill wood people who use bleach wrong kill wood)

$1000 to just strip/cleaned $4000 to clean and seal it :cool:

Oh yeah by the way my Behr strip job was the work of a homeowner.

That's too funny Jon...:lolsign: :applause:

Looks good Mike :cool: Looks like we both been stripping this crap off of decks.I stripped this job last week and was actually kind of easy.It looks like your deck had more of that crap on it than mine did.

I thought i would help ya out and add your pic to your post. Hope ya didn't mind :cool: I had to make it smaller in Photoshop for it to post.

That's too funny Jon!! :rotfl: This thread has been good reading :cool:

We work with a development company to stain all the fences in the subdivision that they developed.I will stain all 500 fences of the homes and every 3-4 years there after.Unless the homeowner buys the Gray Away from us comapny and does the work themselves. We started the subdivision by spraying 2500 lft of 8' tall fence All of the fences are to be sprayed with Gray Away "Blend" per HOA. :cool: I've tried calling a realator about restoring a house they had for sale.She said she would tell the homeowner and give him my name yeah right :rolleyes: Since the the realator is only selling the house for the owner so they have no say so.

Well it's getting an early start the tropics are brewing and it's heading to the Gulf of Mexico. Watch out guys in La. and all along the Gulfcoast it's tracking ya'll way.

Houston is 3 1/2 hours or so from Ft.Worth.

Well if you are going to re stain it with a diff stain you will want to strip that Cabots. If you are just trying to kill mildew mix some bleach/soap and it should clean up just fine. :cool:

I use bleach on cedar siding all the time have no problems at all.

Geez that would take all day to sand,so that was like a 3 day job? That job must have been a pretty penny to do all that cleaning and sanding then sealing.

We been pushin mid 90's and heat index in 100's

That looks sweet nice work Beth n Rod :cool: That hand rail must have been a pain to sand!

Hey Bill nice rig :cool: I have some friends who work for Superior diving Co. heard of them? Stay safe out there :cool:

Here is a deck i stained last year with Gray Away Gold.It started raining pretty hard not too long after i was padding my last coat.I didn't have ill effects from the rain pretty happy for that :cool:

Nick i mix my own S/H stripper but it's still does the same job as the most other S/H strippers out there. I have remove some paint a few times by accident...painted door...gutter once.I think i had a strong mixture both times so it will take paint off trust me.So mask with some plastic where needed around painted surfaces Now it will aslo burn some grass if it's mixed strong also.Hardy green plants if kept wet usually hold up good RINSE good! If you have roses,or most flowering plants i will usually cover with plastic atleast till i'm done rinsing.If you leave the plastic on to long they will burn in the hot sun! I will use the best chem for the job to clean it the best and fastest :cool: What exactly is the chem make up of this EFC-38?

Your pics have to be in .jpg format so make sure they are not in .bmp format.Then you just have to resize them if they are still too big. .jpg format is a more compressed file than .bmp files. Check out this link to see if it helps you to remove your paint. http://www.thegrimescene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3900

Wow i would have never known you could use those for a sprayer that's a new one for me. :cool:

I see you must be saving up for another Island vactaion huh :cool: Nice to see you buzzing around the board Carlos! So far this Summer it's been steady been getting about 40 hrs/wk.I'm happy it hasn't been to stressful since we work damm near year round here in Houston. I'm happy working 8-10 hrs during the summer here cause it's too damm HOT later in the afternoon.Oh don't forget about the humidity,you walk out the door and 5 min you dripping wet.

Hey Art this link is to some brewing kegs huh ? They are at a cheap price too for $22.50 buy em while you can. :cool:

Last summer i had a bad case of heat exaustion staining both sides of a 8ft.tall 1400lft.cedar fence.Before i knew it i had the chills when leaving the job at 3 p.m. Later that night i thought my head was gonna explode with the headache i had.That's one feeling i don't want to ever have again thought i was gonna die!! Start early and finish early in the Texas summer!! Even working the Texas summers for the last 8 years I still never get used to them.

Now that's my kind of arbor nice job :cool: How did you measure the arbor? I'll measure them pretty precise getting every sqft. there is on that puppy. 2K is a good job but the arbor looks over 700 sqft alone.What were the deminsions of the arbor?