Prepare Stain and Equipment

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Should You Back Brush Stain? Spraying vs Back Brushing Stain.

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What happens here

Prepare the stain by stirring it thoroughly. The presenter uses a piece of wood as an improvised stir stick for the Sherwin Williams WoodScapes semi-transparent water-based exterior house stain. He then pours 'Bug Juice,' an insecticide, into the stain and mixes it in, explaining that this product helps kill flying and crawling insects like spiders and mosquitoes. He emphasizes following the instructions for adding the insecticide to the stain. Next, select an appropriate spray tip for the paint sprayer, favoring a 515 tip for a heavy application, and adjust the pressure of the Titan 440 sprayer to around 800 PSI to control overspray. A sprayer saver is also demonstrated to efficiently use stain when levels are low in the bucket.

Goal: Mix stain with insecticide and set up the paint sprayer for application.

Tools and materials

24ft Extension — Reaching higher areas of the cabin
Paint Sprayer — Applying stain to the cabin
Piece of Wood N/A — Stirring the stain
Short Whip Hose — Connecting the sprayer for maneuverability and reduced product load
Spray Tip — Achieving a heavy stain application and controlling overspray
Sprayer Saver — Allowing the sprayer to draw stain from low levels in the bucket without sucking air
Bug Juice Insecticide Bug Juice — Adding insect repellent properties to the stain

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stain that um is a water-based product and um we don't have to you know wait multiple days for it to dry and that's one of the benefits of a water-based you know stain when i was pressure washing the um the logs one of my main focuses was on tops of each log there's this flat area and it had a lot of glass beads from the previous um previous uh blasting when it uh the thing was stripped down to bare wood again a lot of that was left behind it wasn't cleaned thoroughly so i was really trying to get that cleaned off so there wouldn't be anything um causing an adhesion issue with the chinking you don't want any sand debris you know we're gonna be chinking there's gonna be chin chinking in between all these logs so we got it all thoroughly cleaned now once again no chemicals just an agitating nozzle i did use the front i used this straight shot nozzle to um flood the front gable up there just to get you know any um dirt and debris there's a lot of like uh pine pollen and stuff and just cleaned it up nicely with that so the pressure washing is done gonna get get ready to start staining i'm to be doing the staining process with a titan 440 going to be spraying and back brushing this entire thing i'll be shielding the um footings or masking them off we'll be throwing some masking over the windows which will go really quick so i don't get any over spray on the windows but just the logs themselves just spraying back brushing the back brushing is gonna you know enhance adhesion and penetration of the stain if you were just to actually spray it and not back brush it then you're not gonna get really good penetration of the stain it's not gonna last very long if you want this to last long and not have to stain it every year every two years then you're gonna need to really back brush it you want to saturate it really well and back brush it but let's get on with this staining process now so we're getting our stain ready it's a semi-transparent stain that we're going to be using today and i'm going to be putting a product in because there's um they do have a problem with um the carpenter ants on this house and so they spray it all the time uh put stuff around the perimeter all the time they're still getting in the house i'm gonna be putting a product called bug juice inside the paint and it's an insecticide for um flying and crawling insects and it kills flying crawling insects so and i've used it um probably for the last 12 years and it's a very effective product for…

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