Hi Folks
Looking for a couple of tips please.
Finally finished paint stripping our back deck.
The timber is treated pine.
Too many nails were too hard and a lot of effort to try and get flush, to be able to use an industrial sander to remove the surface paint, previous owner decided to paint over the previous stain.
So after several weeks of using 20 litres of paint stripper, finally have removed all previous surfaces.
There are blemishes of previous stains etc left on the timber, looks pretty trendy actually; wife likes the current look.
The plan now is; this is where some tips will assist
1) Sand deck now with fine sandpaper; hoping to only have to sand once, fine sandpaper or medium is the better option?
2) Then the big question, the wife wants to stain the deck, then oil the deck.
3) Recommendations on just staining compared to stain and oil.
4) Don’t want to ever; have to do this again, that is paint stripping, sanding etc
Hoping that if we put a couple of coats of stain on deck, then annually only have to wash down and add another couple of coats of stain?
Please help, this is killing me:
Have been at this deck for about 6 weeks, still have to paint the second coat on hand rails etc
Attached phots of before and after
After using paint stripper to remove previous paint and stains
Painted Deck
