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BEHR Stain & Poly Review | Does this stuff actually work?

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The Idaho Painter

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This project details the process of preparing, staining, and applying a polyurethane finish to wooden shelves, followed by their installation. The steps include light sanding, careful application of a water-based stain and poly mixture, and securing the finished shelves to the wall.

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so I'm working on applying our stain and poly and one from bear now I'm uh just sanding the wood I want to just lightly sand it I'm sanding it just with a um 150 grit uh echod diamond sanding sponge right here to knock anything down make sure it's not really rough we've already done one of the shelves we got one right here that's already done um applied two coats and and it's done ready to hang doing the back side of this one right here one thing with your stained poly you want to make sure you stir it often so I have a stir stick you know available to stir your product cuz the tint you know can settle in it so I'm going to stir my product up I'm just using a little cut bucket to put it in I like to just keep the rim of the can clean just pulling it out with my brush to keep your lid on at all times now I'm going to apply one coat instructions are you can apply one coat then um wait an hour sand it I'll lightly sand with my EOD Diamond sponge and apply the second coat you can see behind me the one that's already done right there looks absolutely amazing so give you some pointers when to apply in it too while we're applying it the more coat you paint the more color you'll end up seeing you definitely got to do more than one coat your first coat kind of is like acting as a seal coat so so I want to try to get it on as quickly as I can and then I'm going to lay it out or tip it off that some people might say I already did my sides edges it dries the first coat dries really fast so what I noticed is I mean I was even um able to sand my first coat you'll before an hour I'm getting my first coat on putting it on nice and heavy working it in the grain of the wood if you're doing a lot larger piece of wood you would have to lay it out and tip it off you sooner terminology for that if you're not familiar laying it out I'm just going to would lay it with my brush or tip it off with my brush that's what is um going to get rid of all your brush Strokes um your random brush Strokes or it'll help get rid of any air bubbles in the um product so I got it on there now I'm going to lay it out make sure everything's 100% covered make sure my Sid side KN it a little bit this is what it's going to look like I'm just going to lay it out in One Direction get it to the end lay it out I want to make sure my sides watch your edges that if you get any running down the edge or the side make sure that you um brush it out one of them after um I laid it out this I didn't check my edges and I had some runs on the sides if you get runs I just scraped it out with my um scraped the five scraped it off with my 5 in one and then I um so we got a little run coming down the side right there I'm just going to brush it out and I sanded it after I scraped it so there's my first coat I'm going to let that dry it's going to dry pretty quick and then I'm going to sand it with my EOD Diamond sponge so while I'm waiting for that to dry I'm going to install one of my shelves right here [Music] [Applause] [Music] a

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