Protect Surrounding Areas and Hardware

all right today we're out here getting ready to um second day oil offense so we're working on staying defense black we're using stainless seal experts penetrating oil on this thing on this fence I'm going to give you some tips and tricks applying this product and actually prepping and getting ready to spray the product so we're going to be um using cardboard shields uh to cover the grass we're going to be using hand masker plastic masker paper masker to mask off you know things we don't want to get the oil on always wear a mask when I'm spraying oils I like to wear a um suit that way I don't get any of the oil on me at the end of the day I can just rip the suit off throw it away and I don't have any of that messy oil on me on my clothes or on my skin I'm going to be using um an extension pull with a um with a back brush to be back brushing the stain this is a penetrating oil it's a self-leveling oil so on a vertical surface it means it's going to penetrate the surface if you have runs drips and stuff like that it's going to self level on a vertical surface and you're not going to see any of that now stain and seal um expert stain and seal seals a product that does not have to be back brushed and that's the self-leveling prop properties makes it so you can just spray it on not back brush at all now I do typically always back brush when I'm doing um any type of wood Services uh bare wood you know to uh Pro promote adhesion and penetration I wanted to get in there really deep into the wood and back brushing just um AIDS in that process that's one of the great things about stain and seal um expert stain and seal is you don't have to but I still just do it anyway another thing is is masking a lot of products um solid color stains drying oils you're going to have to mask all this um Hardware off if you don't want to get the stain on it expert stain and seal um the oil is a non-drying oil so I can come back the next day or same day just a rag I can wipe all these poles off it's going to make it really simple and easy the gate hardware any type of Hardware you don't have to mask any of that off it's going to save you a ton of time we do want to mask mask areas like parts of the fence we don't want to get you know stain on or a house a porous surface that you could absorb the stain in and we wouldn't be able to wipe it off so you'll make sure you mask and Prep properly so I'm going to get ready start applying cardboard Shields we use the cardboard Shields just to…