How To Stain Cedar House Siding. DIY How to stain a house. Exterior house painting tips.

Up top this roof here, we've got some cedar siding that we've already powerwashed. And you can see there's a lot of exposed wood, but we're using a product from Sher Williams called Woodscapes. And the Woodscapes goes right over the top of the wood and it actually absorbs into the wood, so you don't need to prime it. And we've got these laps and these tops and bottoms of these boards right here. And we're actually hand brushing the the tops of the boards first and then we're going to go back and spray them. I'm using a brush just to go along here and back brush it first. And the tops of these laps get a lot of weather, get a lot of water, and so they get pretty beat up and so it's good to back brush them with stain first prior to spraying it with the stain. And then we're going to go back and spray it with our Graco 695 sprayer. We're going to be using a 515 tip at a pretty low pressure cuz it's a stain and it's pretty watery. We're going to be using about 1,800 PSI pressure. So, I'm going to go along. I'm going to back brush all these laps right here. And then we're going to go back and spray it. And then we're going to back brush and back roll the actual face of the boards with our nap after it's been sprayed. And we'll show you how we go about doing that right now. Now, we're going to put a good heavy coat of woodscape stain on this siding. And while it's still nice and wet, you got to go back and back brush and back roll it. Now, while the stain is still extremely wet, you want to start back rolling and back brushing it with a 4-in nap. This back rolling process is actually going to push the stain deeper into the wood. You want to make sure the sprayer doesn't get too far ahead of you cuz the stain will start to dry before you actually have a chance to back roll it or back brush it. So who's ever back rolling or back brushing's got to work pretty quickly. There are some spots that need, you know, more even after it's sprayed. You got your bucket here with some of the stain to keep dipping into and my sprayers waiting for me to catch up to them. This is Chris the Edo Painter. How to stain wood cedar siding.