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Clean Deck and Mask Off Adjacent Surfaces

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Staining a Deck | What You Need To Know

What happens here

After sanding, thoroughly dust off the entire deck surface using a leaf blower to remove all sawdust and debris. Mask off any adjacent surfaces, such as the house siding, ledges, and door frames, with FrogTape Yellow Delicate Surface Tape to protect them from accidental stain application. Cardboard can be placed on the ground below the deck to catch any drips.

Goal: Ensure a clean work area and protect the house and ground from stain.

Tools and materials

  • Cardboard — Protecting the ground from drips
  • Leaf blower — Removing sawdust and debris from the deck

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penetration but I'm going to be just BR really small I just got to do a little bit of masking around with some frog tapes I don't get it on the house but um other that we're good to go I'm going to show you the sanding we're going to sand it then I'm going to dust it off blow it off and then we're going to begin applying the stain so here we go I'll talk a little bit we got some you know um lag bolts and stuff right there you can just stain right over that if you do have large hardware and stuff like on a gate or anything um one of the great things about uh stain and SE it is a non-drying oil so you could spray or brush stain right over the hardware and then later on just wipe it right off it'll wipe right off with like a crocodile cloth so you don't have to worry about getting it on the hard where you don't have to worry about masking it off [Music] either you there's different types of oils you can you know stain a deck with um or even water-based products too so water-based products aren't adding you know anything to the wood to you know increase the life of the wood keep it from splitting checking um drying out uh penetrating oils penetrate you know into the wood add something to it keep the wood fibers you know soft keep them from drying out keep well keep the deck from splitting and cracking you know over time so it's really important to use like a penetrating oil stain and seal experts penetrating oil never dries and it'll literally just keep penetrating over time all the way through it'll literally penetrate through the other side of the deck even though the other side of the deck you know isn't done one of the um things when building a deck like this if you have the opportunity stain seal experts has a machine you can actually run all your wood through it stay both sides um all four um edges and then you can apply it you know right after you stain it but um not everybody has the ability to do that so show you now I'm just going to take um dust this deck

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