Dan,
I read your post the other night and have been thinking about it all day long. I know this is a closed board as far as mentioning other brand names. I am going to answer your post in deffense of other products without calling them by name. Being a manufacture of a sealant as well as being a user, I can tell you without a doubt, that the smell you are referring to is not due to the mildewcide, there are a number of other products on the market, including mine, that have a mildewcide package that does not have that strong smell. Your comment about Ready Seal being the only product that has a mildewcide package was totally off the wall and very missleading. I could name 20 differant products that have been around for a good many years before Ready Seal was ever thought of, that contain a mildewcide package. This is not something new. If this is going to be a closed board as far as talking about various products, lets give the real facts about the ones that we can talk about.
If you have ever been around the oil fields, you would recognize the smell right off, it's the oil used in the product that produces the smell. This is a product that you do not want to apply to an interior of a home. If you want to know why, try this: Take a piece of wood and apply the product, let it cure out. Place the piece of wood into a zip lock bag and seal it up for a week. Open the bag and smell it. This is the same smell you'll get in a home if it is closed up for a week.
Please don't take me wrong, if you like the product, and it's working for you, keep using it. If a product is good, it will stand on it's own merrit. False statements do not make a good product.
Jim Bilyeu
Exterior Woodcare