Post-Washing Inspection and Stain Preparation

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Pressure Washing Wood Fences. How To FAST and Correct!

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After the entire fence has been pressure washed, conduct a thorough inspection of the wood surface. The goal is to ensure that all loose wood fibers, gray discoloration, and any black mildew or dirt have been completely removed. The wood should feel firm and look clean, providing a sound surface. The presenter explains that removing these old, damaged elements is crucial for the new stain's performance, as it allows for optimal penetration and adhesion of the product, regardless of whether a solid color stain (which might cover some minor imperfections) or a transparent stain is being used. This thorough preparation ensures the new stain will last longer and look better. He reiterates his preference for using only water for this process to avoid introducing chemicals around customer's plants, grass, or other landscaping elements, even if some chemical products are marketed as environmentally safe.

Goal: Ensure the fence is properly stripped and ready for the staining process.

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dilemma. But it's stripping really quick. We're cruising right along. Once again, I don't use any chemicals, any type of strippers, any kind of um conditioners or anything. I just don't like using that around customers plants, um the grass, the house, and stuff like that. I know a lot of them are environmentally uh safe and sensitive, but um I just like doing it with just water alone. Thought maybe some people might question. We are doing a solid color stain on this and you know, why the heck are we stripping it, stripping all this gray and black off and and um all this old wood? And you know, if you're just going to go over it, it right with a solid color stain because you're not going to see any of that stuff. It's going to cover it all. Well, taking off all this um this loose wood fibers and all this black and grain. This is going to help the penetration of the product and the adhesion of the product that we're going to be putting on. So, we want to get down to a nice good sound surface, not one that's extremely dry and flaky. So, you want to strip this, clean it really good, and then begin the staining process. All right, we got the suspen all

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