Waterborne vs. Oil-Based for Different Climates

standing snow that's going to be sitting on a deck for long periods of time so what i've noticed is any waterborne products over time if they've got a snow load on them which up in the mccall area donnelly area tamarac that snow sitting on those decks it could be four months five months that it's actually sitting on there on a deck so that that's a long time for moisture um ice water to be sitting on a surface and oil-based products they do like harbor coat oil-based products they're going to penetrate deeper into the wood they're actually going to add something to the wood the oil to the wood but they protect from the inside out so you're going to get better penetration better adhesion with an oil-based product but there's you know the once again the drawbacks the cleanup you're going to have to clean up with mineral spirits um there's some environmental regulations with disposing of you know the the products um the rags and stuff and another thing i wanted to talk about is oil-based products you know dry time and this is a very key element when it comes to doing decks or siding with an oil-based product so another thing i do really like about the uh arbor coat the water-based product is the dry times the dry time to the touch is about a half hour and it does dry extremely fast so you can um it's not recommended but you can walk on it pretty quick but if you got to get somewhere across the deck or anything you could take your shoes off walk on it with socks and i've noticed we can walk on them you know one to two hours you can walk to get places as long as you walk softly you know in socks or stuff it's the dry time to the touch is a half hour it's for about four hours to re-coat and unlike oil-based products and another one of things you know kind of the drawbacks of an oil-based product is extremely long dry time so they do penetrate a lot deeper and give some better penetration and adhesion but then they do have long dry times and if you don't get any excess wiped up it can stay tacky um i've even seen oil based sparks say tacky for up to several weeks and so that can end up becoming a big problem because you can get footprints um dust can collect on it and stuff so even on sided homes log sided homes you can start getting dust piling up on tops of logs and stuff like that and it's going to stick to the oil-based products so one of the the things i really like about water-based products is the fast dry times so penetration is also you know extremely…