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Complete Staining and Final Cleanup

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Staining a Deck | What You Need To Know

What happens here

Continue applying the oil-based stain to the remaining deck components, including the built-in benches, posts, and railings, ensuring even coverage and wiping off any excess product with rags. Once all staining is complete, carefully remove all masking tape. Properly dispose of any oil-soaked rags by spreading them out flat to dry in a safe, non-combustible area, or by immersing them in water in a sealed metal container, to prevent spontaneous combustion. The finished deck is shown with a rich, natural redwood color.

Goal: Finish staining all deck components and perform a safe and thorough cleanup.

Tools and materials

  • Rags — Wiping off excess stain
  • Wide paint brush — Applying stain to posts and railings

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excess it'll never dry and it'll stay tacky forever collecting dirt um showing Footprints and everything so it's absolutely critical that you wipe off the excess stain of any oilbased stain you're Us in so water-based stains you don't have that problem but oilbased stains you know you do have that issue so whatever you do make sure you wipe off the stain and tell you another um handy tip that cuz you know a lot of the tips I give are from life's experiences and I uh went to lunch put all our rags in a bucket next to the deck and spontaneous combustion a hot summer day the rags caught on fire burn burned the grass almost caught the deck on fire luckily it did it but um that was my experience with spontaneous combustion and balling Rags up and putting them in a bucket one of the really cool things about stain and seal and one of the reasons why I really didn't like using oilbased products is because the inherent dangers of fires and um stain and seal does not have that problem because the oil that they used uh for their products has a flash point I believe it's like 500° versus um all other oils have a flash point of like I believe it's like 90° and so they'll spontaneously combust stain and seal experts products it will not combust in your vehicle um the flash point is so high it's literally almost impossible for it to catch on fire so one of the benefits one of the things I like about stain and seals [Music] products [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh

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