Maintain Stain Consistency and Safe Tool/Rag Management

Anytime we're doing deck stains, we pretty much use old brushes. And and when we're talking about oil based stains, we'll use, you know, old brushes that we've been using. And they're kind of like our duster brushes. We don't like to have to clean out any of our tools. We just throw it all away. So, we're going to throw away our brushes. We're going to throw away the rags. Make sure you let them hang out and dry or you could start a fire. keep spontaneous combustion, but we're going to just throw away our naps and rollers. We're going to be using rollers that are typically pretty old and we'll be using naps that we actually store in our van that are old naps that are just kind of throwaway naps, too. So, when we're done, don't have to clean up anything. Just throw it all away. It's pretty critical that before you apply in your stain, if you build the deck and it's brand new, to wait till the deck dries out so it accepts stain. If the wood's really wet, really green, then it's not going to accept the proper amount of stain. You want it to be nice and dry and absorbent so that a stain will absorb right in. But also, when it's not absorbing in, do not let it puddle or pull. Make sure you wipe it off. Another important tip about staining is with a semi-transparent stain, the tint the tint will have a tendency to settle at the bottom of the bucket. So, every couple minutes, you want to use a stir stick just to stir your stain up to keep it from drawing or settle at the bottom cuz once you start working to the bottom, the stain will be a lot darker.