stains, knowing the difference

[Power Clean]

ok you deck experts...

just how can you tell the difference between cuprinol, behr, thompsons, flood, sikkens, wolmans and that cv stuff,,, stains!!!

this has been one of my downfalls in doing decks. if the owners don't know, how can you really tell?? do they really have their own characteristics? I just don't have the experience to look at them and tell..

thanks..

roy

 

[Mike Hughes]

Roy,

That comes only with time, my friend. It is something you will pick up. I can tell most, but there are still some I can't pick out.

Sikkens looks almost like a laquer finish. Behr almost always turns a real dark color when it fails. Then again, so does CWF (flood).......but usually Behr is darker. Thompsons gives the wood almost no color at all.

Good luck!

 

[Jon Fife]

Hi Roy,

Mike is right; Sikkens looks shiny, Behr turns black. Here is the way i tell if it is CWF. Look where the spindles run onto the boards. If there is something of a brownish-orange color that looks like paint runs, it is CWF. Another place to look is the cut ends of the planks, sometimes you can see the run-off there. You see, that stuff is hard to work with and tough to keep from running. I have never come up to a cwf deck that didnt have noticable runs. Those are the only real tough finishes you may come on.
I am also in the south, and in five years i have never come upon a sikkens deck. Most all finishes that you will come upon are easy to strip, cwf is the only one you may have to get a special stripper for (stripexL). Good luck, Roy


take care,

jon fife
nashville,TN

 

[JR Wood]

i have learned that if the customer doesn't know what's on the deck then charge the price for the hardest job...everyone in our
area does that,Sometimes I can tell what it is and the customer is grateful when I tell them that it won't be that expensive(OR NOT!!!!)

 

[Power Clean]

thanks, guys..

i think i know thompsons when i see it!![bb]



roy

 

[charlie]

This is what I do carry a little bottle of remove with me if it can be removed with remove then i do the job.


Charlie