What is the best time for deck maintenance?

This time of year I get this question a lot. A previous customer Kathy James inspired this post with such a query. NO WOOD TYPE OR SPECIES is immune to the damaging effects of water absorption and sun exposure. Deck Maintenance is always needed as your deck health is...

Consumer Reports Recommends Decks Be Sanded

Good morning beloved customers and patriots!    Today you can change the course of your decks future; you can decide you’re fed up with your deck looking old, dry, splintered and weathered. You can decide old solutions of pressure washing alone don’t produce the...

Unprotected Decks Got You Down?

The devastating affects winter weather will do to your unprotected decks Check your deck now, if it deck does not bead or pool water, the water will penetrate the wood on your deck. As the weather freezes, the rain or dew or snow will expand causing small cracks to...

Why deck sand, when no one else does?

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Consumer Reports recommendations for deck sanding as an essential maintenance component prior to applying a deck stain. Below I copied what Consumer Reports wrote following with information about our sanding system: “Prep decks...

Is Behr really a bear?

Years ago I wondered why Consumer Reports rates Behr semi transparent stains so favorably, yet as a professional, I’ve experienced how terribly difficult to apply, evenly. It’s even more awful to remove once the silicon in the stain fails and peels. I was...
The Sun’s harmful affects on your deck

The Sun’s harmful affects on your deck

The day you finish installing a deck or other wooden structure is the day that trouble can start! Most of our customers think of trouble in the form of damage caused by water or cold, water will penetrate the wood, then as freezing occurs the water will expand leading...