Would love to get your thoughts on staining old PT - it's the bane of my summers!
The biggest challenge I have is making old pt look good, and here in the North (Canada) I stain a lot of pt wood. This is the problem: The older the deck is, the darker the final finish is.
This photo is great example - I washed, brightened, even buffed this deck - and i'm not happy with end result. The deck looks inconsistent, and dark and dirty. On this particular deck I used AC amber, but I get a similar result with AC cedar semi transparent.
The only solution I have right now is to use a semi-solid, but most customers really desire a cedar semi-transparent finish.
Would love to get your thoughts on staining old PT - it's the bane of my summers!
The biggest challenge I have is making old pt look good, and here in the North (Canada) I stain a lot of pt wood. This is the problem: The older the deck is, the darker the final finish is.
This photo is great example - I washed, brightened, even buffed this deck - and i'm not happy with end result. The deck looks inconsistent, and dark and dirty. On this particular deck I used AC amber, but I get a similar result with AC cedar semi transparent.
The only solution I have right now is to use a semi-solid, but most customers really desire a cedar semi-transparent finish.
Trevor
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