The shoemaker's kid goes shoeless......

Mike Hughes

New Member
This should probably be in Shoot the Bull.........oh well.......

Well, I did something pretty rare these days...........did some work on my own house!! I've been too busy lately to pay much attention, however, next weekend my wife and I are hosting a block party.............so I had to make the deck look good.

It was sealed with Ready Seal two years ago, and it didnt look too bad........but the lattice work I added after sealing and never got around to sealing it..........so, the deck looked decent, and the lattice was dark gray............not the look you want to have when you tell people you do deck restorations for a living!

Friday was quite a day...........I started out by washing my deck, and my neighbors deck..............then did a 2 story house washing job...........then sealed a floor of a deck (maint. coat), then power washed a brick patio, got home and started sealing my deck at 9PM...........I couldn't believe it, but it was actually dry enough to be sealed over the course of just one day.........it was at about 10% moisture.............this is the nice thing about recoating a Ready Seal deck.........they dry out quickly.

Sealed from 9PM till 1AM Sat morning...........got all of the rails and spindles done by worklight.............then after some sleep, saturday morning I did the floor and saturday afternoon a second coat on the floor and the lattice. My neighbors probably thought I was nuts sealing a deck at midnight........but it was a really nice night out. :)
 

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Clean County

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Goes to show you that your neighbors are probably right because us powerwashers are nuts because we can work like theres' no tomorrow.

Oh yea, your deck looks great. I will have to post a picture of my deck to show how I am the shoemaker and I need to get around to doing mine also.:)
 
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paul-uk

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hey mike.

great job on your deck and that was some days work i would be happy if i got that in a week :) all the decks i see on these posts look great ...but the contrast with the houses dont look right is thier any reason why they are all the same colour (or looks like they are ??).

hope your block party went like a bomb :D

cheers paul.
 

FROSTY

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Sealing a deck at one in the morn'.

Maniac! Gotta love it! Looks great!

Cheers to a man who enjoys what he does!
 

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