HOW TO STAIN A DECK. Tips Staining A Wood Deck. DIY home improvement tips.

In this video, we're going to be staining a small deck. This deck has been power washed 2 days prior and it's all dried out now. And we're going to be using a Mesmer product. This is Mesmer's UV+ dark walnut stain. Another thing we'll actually be using during this task is paint thinner cuz it's a oil-based product. We've got a 5gallon bucket here that has paint thinner in it. When we're actually all done, we just take our brushes, put it in the paint thinner, let it set for a day, and then we begin cleaning them out the next day. We got this deck here that we powerwashed. It's all dry, and now we're actually staining. We like to use a oilbased stain brush, black china bristle or white China bristle. We It's a 4-in brush, which is 1 in wide, so it holds a lot of the the product while we're staining. Um, this type of brush we like to use because Mesmer's is a very liquidy stain. It's very watery and has a tendency to grip and splatter. And the bigger China bristle brushes um help alleviate that problem. We're starting by staining. We go along, we stain the the cracks first and then actually fill in the top of the deck after we do the cracks. And as you can see, GMO's staining, going along, doing two planks at a time, and he stains the crack and then he fills in the top. And what you want to do is make sure you get enough of the stain down in the crack so the crack is completely stained so you don't have any light spots, which would look very unprofessional if you had light spots down in the cracks. Drew's over here right behind Gamo doing the same technique. He's staining the cracks and then going in the top with memer stain. And the key is to put on a lot of the stain so it penetrates and um and adds a lot of oil to the wood itself. And the Mesmer's oil is a deep penetrating rosewood oil that actually penetrates into the wood and helps keep the wood from splitting and cracking. And um the sun has a tendency to dry out the wood pretty bad and has a tendency to make it split and crack. And adding some oil back to the wood gives it some more life. And the UV plus actually has a high concentration of milic size to keep the wood from mildoing. Also, it's a small deck that we're doing at this point in time. Got about half of it done. We're using cardboard shields around the bottom of the deck. You can see we got some rock and um concrete and curbing that we don't want to get the stain on. So, we use cardboard shields to keep the stain off those areas, too. Once the deck is done, it should be look heavily coated. And if there's any heavy spots that are still wet after about an hour, what you want to do is take and wipe those spots off with a rag. Cuz if you don't wipe them off and they're still wet, they'll stay tacky for several weeks and collect dust. And you just wipe them off so it's there's nothing standing, no standing puddles of stain on the deck. This is Chris from BNK Painting with Drew and Gamo staining a deck, showing you how to stain a deck.