Apply Stain Using the 'Cracks First' Technique

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,