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Cut In Edges and Fill Gaps

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Staining a Deck in a DAY! The Idaho Painter

What happens here

Begin by 'cutting in' the edges of the deck, specifically along the house siding and railing posts. Use a hand brush for precision in these areas. For gaps between deck planks, a foam brush can be used to work the stain down into the crevices, or an airless sprayer can be used for wider gaps. Getting stain into these gaps is crucial for a professional, durable finish, as neglecting them can make the deck look unfinished.

Goal: Apply stain to edges, house-facing boards, and deck plank gaps.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Sprayer — Spraying stain into wider deck plank gaps
  • Foam Brush Premier — Applying stain into narrow deck plank gaps
  • Hand Brush Premier — Precision application along edges and for cutting in

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logically. We're going to move our way out this way and then we can actually exit with all of our tools and products out the yard and out the sideyard right there. So, we're going to start from this up here. We're going to cut in up here right along the house along the um railing and then work our way out with our um Goliath brush. Um putting the stain down and laying it out. I'm going to show you the sprayer. And once again, um some of these um wide gaps right here, you would typically want to spray them. I'm going to be using a 30-in extension with a 310 tip to spray some of these gaps just to make sure that the stain gets down into them. It's good to have like a foam brush. You can use a foam brush to do your gaps, too, if you don't have a sprayer. I'll show you what that looks like. You just stuck a foam brush down in there, run it down inside, and that's another quick, easy way to do the gaps. The one of the things about making your deck look done professionally and not like a do-it-yourselfer did it is to do those gaps. If you look down on those gaps, you should see that it's coated all the way down, you know, um on the boards and some some of the gaps might be too tight that you can't get a brush down there or the sprayer won't spray down in them in there, but you typically can't see down

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