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Looks like some type of moth.

I have used the Rustoleum Epoxy shield kit for a couple of customers and it works very well and looks great. The only downside is that it only comes in 2 colors, Grey and Tan. Once the floor is painted cars should stay off for 7 days to let it cure. It will handle light foot traffic after 24 hours. I was looking to try another brand that offers more colors, but they are usually much more expensive and most people flip out about $70/gal/bay for the epoxy shield paint. I'd hate to hear what they say when you tell them the paint will cost $100+ per/gal for just a one car garage. If it's a 3 car (common in my area) $$$$. Most people don't want to spend big bucks on their garage unless they have show cars or just have lots of extra $$$ laying around.

Ken, In that case you would have to charge sales tax for materials. NJ ALWAYS wants their share!!! MORE MORE MORE GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE.

NJ does require sales tax to be charged for labor. Materials is no sales tax cause the tax is already paid for when bought from the store.

I would say to use oxalic acid, or try ESI's Citralic mixed a bit on the strong side. This should get rid of the rust stains. Pure oxalic acid might lighten the old boards a bit more. HTH, Doug

Very nice door! Sounds like the salesman was trying to screw you. At least he gave you a good price. Are you going to have the door stained or painted? If you do decide to stain, Therma tru sells a stain kit for their doors. Doug

Someone may have a better and easier method, but what I have done is disconnect the hose from the pump. Then put the end into the stain can, hold the trigger on the gun while lifting the hose to allow the stain to drain back into the can. Doug

People SUCK!!!! :D

The phone # is on the website. From what I was told the online ordering isn't up and running yet. HTH, Doug

Here is a deck I stained today. This was my first time spraying and using WTW. I Love WTW and my Decker sprayer. Started spraying at 10:00am and finished by 1:30pm. I know some of you seasoned pros would have done it quicker, but I think I did pretty good for my first time spraying. :D

Does it turn darker or lighter? Or does the color just "mellow out" a bit? They are having a party next saturday June 3rd. Hopefully people at the party will be impressed with the job and I'll get a ton of work from it. :D:lgmoneyey Not that I need more work right now since I'm booked into August, but I won't turn work down. I have to start working on Saturdays soon. Need to make the $$$ now to get me thru the slow winter season. Doug

Thanks Celeste! I tried to make sure I didn't over/under apply the stain. I was a bit nervous when I first started but once I got going and figured things out it went fairly smooth. The customer said that she wanted the deck to be a little darker then when the deck was wet just after I washed it. So I tinted the wood tux with a bit of black and red till I got the color right. Doug

And a few more pics.

Very nice!!!

Got this in an e-mail this morning. Enjoy, Doug If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious! When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill both ways through year round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a Straight-A average despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death! And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But.... Now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. When we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves! There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter. With an actual pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and messed it all up! You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options. We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We didn't have any fancy Sony PlayStation videogames, either, with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens; it was just one screen forever! And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy sat in front of you and you couldn't see you were just screwed! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing you had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning... D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards! We didn't have microwaves; if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove imagine that! If we wanted popcorn we had to use that stupid jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like an idiot forever. That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled, you guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980! Damn! I feel old!!!!!

I use a Little Giant ladder all the time. It's great!!! Doug

Here are some pics of a deck I cleaned today. Will be stained with WTW. Doug

Thanks Shane, I'll check it tomorrow and if there is some mildew on there I'll hit it with a mild bleach. When the customer came home her jaw dropped when she saw the deck. :) Doug

Thanks Ron, It had some sealer left on the verticals. Not sure what it was. May have been a clear or possibly a cedar color stain??? What ever it was it melted right off with HD-80. Followed up with citralic to neutralize and brighten. Going back tomorrow if the weather is good to do some sanding and de-fur some spots. Also have to paint 2 doors. Then I have to wait for the WTW to be delivered. Hopefully should be here tomorrow or Friday. Doug

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I have a possible deck restoration job coming up. I did a test area on the deck and need some assitance ID'ing the wood. I first thought it was western red cedar, but after seeing the wood dry it may be white cedar or AYC. The pic is when the wood was wet. I fogot to bring my camera today when I went back to show the customer some color samples I did on a new piece of WRC. The deck is old and weathered. They put clear on it in the past. I've been explaining to them that a clear is no good. The guy at a paint store and another painter that they got an estimate from said that a clear is fine. The woman checked online and saw that a clear offers little to no UV protection. At least she knows that I'm being honest with her.

The wood on the deck is clear cedar. There are very few to no knots. What is KD15 stock? Doug

I drove out to ACR on Friday and picked up a Decker 5'er and a bunch of other stuff. Stopped at Wal-mart on the way home and bought a 27 series deep cycle battery. Charged the battery overnight and hooked everything up this afternoon to try it out. This thing is COOL!!!! It's gonna save me a bunch of time just in applying chems to a deck over a pump up sprayer. I'm not going to spray stain on a customers deck untill I test spray my own deck to get use to it. Now on to some questions. For those that use a Decker or Deckster. What pressure do you use for applying chems (efc-38, HD-80, Brightner, etc...)? I know each stain is different. Some are thick, some are thin. But in general what preesure would be good for stains? Or is that something you just have to play with to find what works best for you? I have a gallon of RS to tryout and see how I like it once my test deck is dry enough to apply it. Doug

I guess it could be possible. I've never done it. The fumes from the alcohol would be outrageous though. I guess thats what respirators are for. :D Doug

Denatured Alcohol will soften dried latex paint. I use it to clean paint brushes when there is some dry paint on them. I also cleaned a front door before painting it and the latex paint that was on it started getting soft and rubbing off. HTH, Doug