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Clean Up and Final Touch-ups

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Staining a Deck in a DAY! The Idaho Painter

What happens here

After all staining is complete and the deck has dried sufficiently, remove all masking paper and tape from the house siding and concrete. Perform any necessary touch-ups on missed spots or areas where stain may have accidentally transferred. The presenter notes that with Olympic Elite stain, touch-ups blend seamlessly without flashing or leaving visible brush strokes, even on a dark color.

Goal: Remove masking and perform final touch-ups for a clean finish.

Tools and materials

  • Hand Brush Premier — Applying touch-ups
  • Blue FrogTape FrogTape — Removed from protected surfaces
  • Masking Paper — Removed from protected surfaces

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[Music] All right. So, we worked our way off the deck now. Come down. You can see we've got some masking. We used masking around with uh blue frog tape so we didn't get any bleeding in on our concrete. Worked our way down. And I'll just talk about we got the spindles up here. And this is a good time to explain to you kind of what I meant about not what I meant about not working yourself into a corner or something. And this is not working oursel into a corner. But we did the whole top of the deck. And now this side of the spindles right here, we would have to walk on the deck to get to this side of the spindles and handrailing. And if this deck wasn't going to be dry enough by today to get up there to do that, then we we wouldn't be able to get the deck done in a day. So, um I do have to admit, um that was my mistake. So, I forgot about that because we were just so wrapped up in doing this video, but what we should have did is just did that side of the railing first right there and then started on the deck. That way, we wouldn't have to jump on the back on the deck. But the deck is this is dry enough now where we could walk on it with our socks. So in a pickle. Um you can take your shoes off, walk on it with your socks and do that within an couple hours if it's a nice sunny warm day. So we're just hand doing our spindles over here. Just using brushes and weenie rollers. Um the sprayer I did use the sprayer quite a bit uh for doing the um in between um some of the planks and doing the steps and stuff and doing the cutins. just makes it so much faster. And some of these wide gaps in some of the the portions of the deck and stuff that's really worn out, separated, using a sprayer makes it very convenient. You don't have to have a sprayer. If you're a do-it-yourselfer, you you can stuff some foam brushes down in there, and foam brushes will work uh too, but you definitely want to get the paint down in those cracks and crevices. So, um we're continuing to uh work right along. This is one coat, so you don't need to put two coats. uh especially on this because this is a solid color stain going over the exact same color. Now, once again, if you're doing um a black on a white or white on a black, you know, you could possibly have to do two coats, but it's a water-based product, easy to clean up um continuing right along. I'll give you some more tips and tricks, you know, um as we go here. So, I just want to talk a little bit about the sprayer setup because I know…

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