Verify Moisture Content and Choose Proper Stain

accept more stain now I am using an oil-based penetrating St stain on this from uh stain and seal experts I'm going to be using a natural color cuz the customer wants it to look like um Redwood doesn't want a lot of color to it you do have to have color in your stain you can't just put a clear on if you want it to be protected um from UV rays and um sunlight so um if you don't want it to discolor over time you definitely want uh a stain that has um uh pigment in it to give it some protection I am using a penetrating non-drying oil product so it's going to penetrate into the wood it's going to add something to the wood keeps the wood from cracking SPL splitting and checking over time so um I'm saying it at one thing this is a brand new deck so you definitely want to test for moisture make sure uh it's not you know too wet so sometimes the wood will come out it's not kill and dry it's extremely wet if it's wet it won't accept stain this is a small deck so I'm not going to be spraying I don't want um to any overspray oil or anything I'm just going to be hand brushing this uh brushing it's important to get good penetration if you were to spray you would want to um spray and back brush to get better penetration but I'm going to be just BR