fireandrain

lmfao!

Thats great. Have any room in your truck for me?

Not sure what you meant,Kev.

bummer that GW obviously didnt see this movie! Still got my life, freedoms? thats funny stuff.

..and I hope I AM " foregive'n"...:)

thats funny,Kev! I had the stopwatch set to how long it would take you to mention that!

Sarah Palin qualified? You gotta be shi#$t'in me! If there weren't such significant consequences at stake here, I would be LMFAO!

McCain and Palin. Kinda' like getting Sodium Hydroxide in your eyes, f'ing terrifying thought!

...never worked with a redwood deck that didn't require defurring post strip. Worked with all of the popular strippers, IMHO, no measurable differences. I prefer F-18 myself.

Rick, ...and then just scraped off that creamed paint from he spindles? Did you need to manage that nasty stuff's inclination to drip down to vegetation beneath? Helluva' job Rick! Thats interesting about Mahagony's thirst for stain v. other hardwood species. I received a call back last week on a Mahogony that I sealed with RS Med Red. 2 heavy coats by hand, horiz. only. HO claims that there is an area that appears "bone dry". Very strange, I've never received such a call before~even with redwood.

Rick, also curious how you dealt with masking the bottom vegetation whilst you creamed' those verticals? Man, that just looks like it would be a rough operation!

Rick, Fine work, as always! That really looks like a gratifying project and I hope the homeowners compensated you well. Curious how much RS you went through?

I got a call last week for a resto on this "professionally restored' redwood deck. HO said that they had the deck done 2 years previous and had no idea what the contractor had applied as a sealer. Funny, or maybe not so funny, that most of my late season calls are these nasty acrylics! This will be my first time working with a boost for my stripper mix. I bought some Sierra Propylene Glycol and plan on mixing 1/2 gal PG to my 8oz. p/g stripper. I'm actually really excited to get the chance, this late in the season, to work with a booster... I expect this PG to heat up my mixture, should I be taking any extra precautions with respect to masking (plants,house paint, MYSELF!) Wunderbar!

Thanks for the information,Rick. Hey, I just saw some news coverage of that weather your having back east! Looks like you got your final deck of the season buckled up just before that snow started falling! Well done. I remember you mentioning it a couple of posts back, but just saw the video footage... Believe it or not, California is expecting its first rain in 8 months beginning Friday evening. Unfortunately, this 4-5 day rain storm is going to stall the 2 decks I have in currently have in production. To the best of my knowledge, the Bay Area does not have any snowfall forecasted....at least for the next 2-5 years.

After hearing about Rick's injuries this stuff, I gotta say my knees be a trembling a bit when it comes to working with this nuclear shiznik! Jim, you clearly seem to have experience with this stripper cream, whats you safety protocol when using it? Anything else to keep in mind?

Appreciate the input,Rick. I didn't get a chance to work with the cream today but will certainly take your experience into account when doing so! When you say a 'hole' what do you mean? Can you whistle through it? All joking aside, sorry that happened to you, jeeeeezzus!

The Sheriff of Humboldt County?

Ol' Nootka ****?

Okay, what does it take to get a moniker round here? Sir Knowledgewood? Loggy Sequoia? Your killing me!

Hey thanks Rick and James... I can only hope that my semi-pro west coast sojourns into the realm of acrylics can provide the needed entertainment that two famed east coast woodies like yourselves so deserve whilst waiting for next spring to arrive! We haven't seen any real measurable rain in nearly 8 months out here, so the season is still moving forward at a good clip. Rick, thanks for your input on the effectivity of boosted NaOH with acrylics. I have spent hours reading threads from the past few years on boosting NaOH, and never once came across any information related specifically to its use when facing an acrylic strip. Considering that this is my first boost with Poly. Glyc. that is VERY useful to keep in mind. I went at this deck today with 8 oz. p/g NaOH with 1/2 gal. Poly Glyc. mixed in. Pretty intensive strip kept me busy right up to dusk with about 70% removal so far. So, wasnt too blown away with the boost additive but makes me feel MUCH better knowing that acrylics respond to boosts differently. Look forward to working with a boosted NaOH on my next oil-based strip. I ran out of my booster around 4PM and ended dealing with one of the areas of the deck w/o any boost. I saw it as an opportunity to do some comparative work. I heated up my NaOH to 12oz. p/g (non-boosted) and would have to say that it was a little less effective than the areas hit with the boosted 8 0z. mix. The short of it... boosting my NaoH did help, but in no big way with this acrylic. This is a redwood deck so I built in a fair amount of de-furring into my bid. And, when I walked away from the deck as the sun was setting behind the oaks, I could see that he deck had grown a damn good looking beard. I'll be back tomorrow for some spot stripping, which, as James wisely reminded, will involve doing some demo work with some of the stripping creams leftover from my sample kit from Eaco Chem. I'm fairly comfortable with the progress so far, so I don't envisage needing to get to cozy with my expensive alternative strippers. I still have a gallon leftover of my Stripsol from that IPE strip in August, may enlist that as well. And Rick, wouldn't you know it, I didn't do testing prior to bidding this one. Again, I just got lucky. My first pre-09' project will be putting together a well organized testing 'suitcase' which will include various NaOH mixes as well as a few of the 08' tested 'alternative' stripping agents such as Stripsol and the Eaco Chem stripper cream. This year has been a huge step in the right direction for my business but I still have a long ways to go to when it goes to developing the rock solid confidence that you two guys have when it comes to finish removal. Thanks for your input on this one...

No, I didnt, Kevin. Had a good look at the set-up. I've had my guy with the Makita and 3M's on his knees. Work for him. May give your famd set up next week on this one.

...no way around a fuzzy deck after stripping acrylic from redwood. my experience. if the boost speeds up the strip, i'll be one happy chimp.

Anyone else with an opinion on Sierra Prop. Glycol? I guess I'm mainly concerned with adverse chem reactions when mixed with my stripper. Anyone else have experience with this Sierra Safe stuff?

Kevin, Sierra no good? I've read quite a few threads that suggest going with this stuff. When you say "other stuff I don't want", what are you referring to? Am I dealing with some bad chem reactions? So far, I haven't read anything negative about the use of Sierra's Prop. Glyc.

Rain? Hasn't rained here in the Bay Area since last March, and that was just 1/100th of an inch! Planning on staining a Braz. Mahagony tommorow and, for the first time this summer, RAIN is foretasted! Im not complaining, I know we're lucky out here...