deck with Olympic stain

[Chappy 138]

This deck was with the Playset in st. Pete.

I goofed on this one.

After stripping the playset, the deck had lots of mildew on it. I asked HO if she wanted it cleaned off. Light bleach and lightly washed, but a little of the color came off. Knowing up front it needed to be refinished, because lots of bare areas already, I was planning on writing an estimate for future maintenance restain. The Husband called me that night and said I took off most of the old stain! And that I should restain it at cost!

Now you'd assume he knew the condition before hand, but I was left with no room to argue and agreed to re stain with the original Olympic semi. It really turned out great and I was able to at least cover my helpers labor and make a little.

Lesson learned the hard way!

[PressurePros 249]

Even though that's a little deck, it looks like a PITA project.. cutting around those columns and wrapping them to protect from overspray.

[Beth n Rod 1,279]

That's an easy masking job.....at least I think it is.

Get a roll of pre-taped plastic. (9 foot roll)

Cut a piece big enough to go around the post.

Pre-tape from the top down (suggesting 6 feet high)

Blue tape at the bottom, leaving half the blue tape bare to tuck into.

Unfold pre-taped plastic pulling down gently and tucking into the blue tape seam, press closed.

Run a seam of blue tape up the opening in the plastic.

Your columns are now masked.

Rock on that wood!

Beth

[Chappy 138]

That one was hand brushed. Ive learned that even though it takes 2-3 times longer to brush instead of spray, the taping and tarping takes twice as long as the spraying so the time savings on a small deck is minimal.