strange sealer

[Jon Fife]

Hello guys,


...was giving an estimate on a large deck today with a finish that i could not detect. I applied stripexL to the deck which was successful. The finish was very shiny and felt acrylic. When i applied stripper, it came off in a way that looked like CWF (looked like dead skin peeling off)

I have stripped many CWF decks, and this is not CWF. Does not look like it, and is a different color. I thought it could be sikkens, but I asked the guy what he paid for the job and it could not have been sikkens. Besides, i've never seen a sikkens deck around here and I only know of one store that sells it and they just recently began selling it.

Any thoughts on what this could be?? Definetely looks like some sort of varnish or something, but it appears that stripexL will remove it. I would just like to know what it is. Thanks for any help!

Jon Fife

 

[Mike Hughes]

It could be Wolman Extreme....

 

[johny]

Has any of you ever used Olympic in storm gery color.Really srange color.In direct sunlight it looks like there is no stain on at all,just natural color, in the shade looks antique, wheathered grey.
i couldnt figure out this thirsty deck.It was just 6 month old,but kept absorbin the stain.I put on even 5 coats on top ot the rails,still didnt look better.It looked like i missed a bunch of places where i dint.I tried to flood it by spraying ,but no difference.Sould i have done something different??
Johny

 

[Ronniels]

Johny,
We did a deck this summer with Olympic's "Storm Grey"
Yes, at some angles it looks invisible, not even a natural looking clear, but like nothing at all was on there.

And that is with putting it in heavier than I was comfortable with.
Not sure if this info helps you or not, but you probably did it right.
In the can and while applying it looks like a solid, but dries clear...very clear.

Customer actually argued that we did not put it on so we ended up putting on a solid (at her expense) but it made her happy.