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Following factors are important to keep in mind when it comes to stain or seal your deck. more
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Following factors are important to keep in mind when it comes to stain or seal your deck. more
You can conduct a simple test to check whether your deck is protected. Just splash a few drops of water onto the surface of your deck and see what happens. If you find that the water beads up and remains on the surface, it is probably alright. However, if the water soaks into the wood quickly, you are in danger of splitting, twisting, and rotting. In that case, you may need to stain your deck. You need to test in a few different areas of your deck, because each board is different. more
Staining or sealing your deck is considered among one of the most confusing tasks. When it comes to stain a deck, there are several choices in the type of stain to use. Some of the most common choices are transparent, semi transparent, semi-solid, and solid stains. What is more confusing about staining or sealing your deck is that you cannot understand when you need to stain or seal your deck.
If you seal your stained deck with a UV-rated weatherproofing water seal twice a year, this will probably double the time between re-staining. Weatherproofing water seal actually offer wet weather protection, and the ultra-violet helps to protect your deck against the damaging rays of the sun. [links]
The Ready Seal 512 doubles as a stain and as a sealer. It helps protect your deck from UV light, sunlight, and moisture. It also seals the wood pores. It’s easy to use, sand, and there’s no multi-step application process. Better yet, the natural color of the wood remains intact.
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For maximum protection against UV light, this is the ideal deck stain. [links]
One product you can use to clean the deck if you do have these black stains is ‘Deck Clean’, which is a mild acid. If you decide to remove your black stains by cleaning with Deck Clean, you need to scrub like you have never scrubbed before and you will have to repeat the process at least a couple of times. In some cases you will have no alternative but to sand the deck back.
To prevent this from happening to your deck, it is best to clean your deck daily making sure to remove anything metal from the deck. Even leaving other bits of timber on the deck can lead to stains which are hard to remove. Kwila timber is especially bad for this, as it is a wood that is heavy with tannins. Tannin is the sap inside timber and even though the majority of decking boards are ‘kiln-dried’, they still have a level of tannin in them. [links]
Unsightly black stains on a deck are caused by metal being left on a wet deck. In the photo you can see where a bolt, a bracket and even a nail have been left on the deck and they have left a faint stain behind. That big, black mess that you can see on the right-hand side of the photo has been left behind after some metal has been ground on the deck and the metal filings haven’t been cleaned off properly. Then when water gets on the deck, the metal filings and the tannin inside the decking boards have reacted to each other and created a black stain. This black stain is near impossible to clean off and when it is as bad as it is in the photo, you have no option but to sand back the deck.
For more information of on installing decking boards have a look at our “Installing Decking Boards” guide which is available from the Resource Shop. here
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