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First Deck for Elite Powerwash LLC

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Well, here's the first deck for me. It started out with some horrible solid crud in the first picture. I stripped it twice with fairly strong mix, then oxalic but there was still a lot of this stuff embedded in the wood. I was leary of over dosing the wood with chems so I opted to sand the rest of it out. 60 grit and a good orbital got it in about an hour, second pic. Because of all the sanding and on the recomendation of Shane (my mentor) I did another oxalic rinse. Let dry for two days. Masked off the area and used a 1.8g/min sureflow and some back padding. Customer, a friend of mine, was very happy with the results. In the last picture there are a few shiney spots that I padded out after I took the pic. I used two coats of Super Cedar Grey Away about 40 minutes apart, the first coat soaked in very fast.

I learned that even the slightest wind will cause very fine over spray which came off the railing very easy with a little mineral spirits. I also learned to cut in by hand further from the rails. In hind sight I might have been better off padding the whole thing.

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Pete,

Very nice work, especially for your first exterior wood job. When I started out, it took twice as long to do work as it does now. A few more decks and you will just be humming along. It gets easier, faster, and better with experience.

Though I doubt any of us will ever match Shane's amazing 120 gals. of stain applied in 2 days, working alone no less!

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That's a very sweet looking deck Pete great job dude!! :cool:

Now all you have to do is let him have you practice on that fence in the background :D

So you decided to used Super Cedar the color looks real good on that PT deck.

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