big mike

Most of the decks I do are Cedar, and are coated with some cheap consumer grade junk (Behr, Thompson's, CWF, etc.) This usaually means stripping and some furring. I remove any and all fur on the deck floor with the Makita (easy). The spindles are a PITA, but for them I use a 5" Porter Cable random orbital sander. This works pretty good. Old unprotected decks or fences will definitely fur on you because of the large amount of dead wood fibers. I usually plan on around 5 hours of defurring & detail work on each job. If it's less, then its more $ in my pocket. If you have a helper, have them do the spindles. Oh yeah, I no longer defur fences because of the advice from some seasoned pro's on this board.

I want to make separate lines for stripper / brightener / stain on my shurflo setup. Question 1. who carries these at a reasonable price? Question 2. What type is everyone using? i.e. flow thru, double stop, etc. Question 3. Do I need stainless for the chemicals or is brass OK? The idea is to save time and material by not having to purge the line after each process. I can just disconnect one line, and clikck on the next.

I would stain all verical surfaces white, and the floor, handrail & stair treads cedar. my2cents

Thanks tony, I've seen other pix you've posted of failed Penofin. I think what I'm going to do is strip the deck surface only and do a re-seal. It's only 14 x 16, and a easy square. I looked at it again today, and I think that might be the easiest route. I'm going to plastic off the spindles and railings though. They look decent enough. Also, a good test deck for HD-80 vs. EFC-38. What do you think I'll have the best results with? I want to keep the furring to a minimum so I want the lightest stripper I have to use. The finish is less than a month old. Oh, in case I didn't mention it before, it's a cedar deck.

Russ, Shane, Thanks for the replies. I do realize that a complete strip would be the best route. I am however, reluctant to do that because overall the finish looks pretty good. There is mainly some furring that's been sealed, and will eventually disappear anyway right? I want to spend as little time on this as possible, because time=money. I am doing this as a favor to this person, but i don't have a lot of time - and he doesn't have the money. Basically what I'm asking is, if I sand off the fur, how bad is it going to wreck the seal job?