dave601 14 Report post Posted May 8, 2011 Hello, Just bought a house a few months ago and have been planning on cleaning and staining the 2 year old deck once the weather got a little nicer. The weather finally got nicer and I started cleaning it today. After doing some reading around here I have realized that I should have had a better plan as to the cleaning and staining timeline as well as what stain I am going to use. First some details about the deck. I believe it is a pressure treated pine deck. It gets a decent amount of sunlight in the afternoon (some trees around it but not immediately shading it). I am in Minnesota so there will be plenty of weather extremes. Right now I am using a 2 in 1 cleaner from Home Depot (believe it is a Behr product). I have some experience from shop class in high school staining furniture but I have never done anything with a deck before...so my experience is a little on the low end. Now for the questions. First off, what is the maximum time I can go between cleaning the deck and applying stain? Secondly, I have been reading about my stain options and there are a lot of them out there. I am thinking I want something more transparent and less solid. Initially I was looking at a Olympic Toner at Lowes but as I have been reading it seems there are a lot of quality products that are sold not at your local big home improvement stores (I was reading about Wood Tux). Looking for recommendations... Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
