Tannin Bleed and Priming Considerations

comes to uh the arbor coat so this is um not necessarily a negative thing because this is with any paints or stains uh solid color stains semi-solid colored stains if you're staining because we do stain redwood we stain cedar those types of wood species have a lot of tannins in them so you can get tan and bleed and we were using white one time we're testing now the white and their products are self priming and which is another positive self-priming products on most substrates and um but you know if there's tannins coming through it's not going to stop tan and bleed so you can't put on coat after coat and your first coat's not going to stop the tannin bleed if you put another coat on it's going to continue to bleed through so you do these uh you do need to use the proper primer so you definitely want to check their tds the technical data sheet and it's going to recommend what primer that you're going to need to use when it comes to stopping tan and bleed all right so you might be wondering where the heck you can use arbor coat their water based products the solid color stains and there's semi-solid color stains or even their semi-transparent stains you can use it on fences you can use it on deck you decks you can use it on siding you can use it on furniture you can put it on pressure treated wood or even engineered wood so there's a lot of different surfaces a lot of different wood things you can use there's a lot of