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I believe the real issue is the Top Cap is pressure treated wood, which usually takes about 3-6 months to completely dry. When they applied the stain is rolled right off the new top cap. The only way to solve the issue is to use a brush to apply the stain, using a spray gun will distribute to much stain and longer you can wait to apply the stain to pressure treated wood the better is will absorb. You can also use a moisture meter to check the wood.
Does the Ready Seal stain cover well? We had TWP oil stain about 5 years ago and deck has been power washed but can still see cedar color. What’s your thoughts on Behr’s semi transparent oil stain please? Thank you!
Our side deck is about 9 years old, and gets a ton of hot afternoon sun. It’s oil stained about 5 years ago, been pressure washed last week with a couple pieces of new pressure treated wood planks. We’re thinking of going solid but now having second thoughts. Is Cabot oil based semi-solid any good? Since we have old and couple of new planks, which Ready Seal color would be best to use? Pecan? Which Ready Seal color did you use/test? Thank you!
How long do they last and when its time to retreat how hard is that gonna be because ive messed up my back and front deck using stuff ppl said to use my back deck in full sun has to have boards replaced i have a big deck and its gonna cost a lot to have someone come out and fixed then we spent 15k already on having them built now not even 10 yrs later we almost need a full back deck
I've never stained a fence before. I'm on the fence between Ready Seal and Wood Defender (ha ha). Seriously, I have a hodgepodge of wood, cedar (pickets) and pine (posts, rails, front/top caps), new and weathered. You stated in another video that WD is more flat and RS is more brighter. I'd rather have the brighter. I would like to apply a two tone of stains, I'm assuming both will be transparent. I wanted to stain the posts a dark brown and the pickets, rails and front & top caps a more cedar/mahogany red color. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I would like to see a video on the comparisons of RS with cedar and pine, new and weathered, thank you again for your videos, very informative.
Since you have different types of wood and some are aged and some not they are all going to take the stain a little differently. The older pieces will absorb more and look darker than the newer wood. Cedar will also take up more stain than pine. To make them look as consistent as possible I would recommend using a Wood Defender semi-transparent stain. It's going to cover up more that the transparent. Confusingly, Ready Seal calls their stain semi-transparent but it is more similar to the WD Transparent varieties. Here is a link to what I'm talking about: amzn.to/3VapOwo
@@AllAboutWoodStaingetting ready to stain and I’ve noticed exactly what you mentioned here. Ready Seal seems much less pigmented than Wood Defender. Nice to have a pro opinion on this prior to purchase,thank you.
I like Wood Defender a little better than Ready Seal for two reasons. More color options and it performed a little better in my backyard test. They are honestly very similar and both good stains so you can't go wrong with either. Expert doesn't have a wholesaler in my area so I haven't used them much but I'm actively testing them now. As far as I can tell it is similar to WD and RS.
Hello, thank you for this video. We have oil based stains on our deck which was built about 9 years ago. We’re thinking of using solid color from SW or Home Depot instead of semi transparent stains again. Deck gets a lot of afternoon sun. Your thoughts?
That might not be quite enough stain. Usually the price to buy a 5 gallon bucket is not much more than getting 4 single gallons so you may look at that.
