Why It Is Important To Coat ALL SIX Sides Of Your Wood When Building A Porch Floor
When building a porch floor, it’s essential to coat all six sides of the wood. This practice is crucial for several reasons, including protecting the wood, enhancing durability, preventing moisture damage, and maintaining its appearance. Let’s break down these reasons to understand why this step is so important. First, coating the wood provides a protective […]
The Only Sure-Fire Way To Give Your Deck Coating ANY Shot At Longevity
If you have ever heard me preach about the best way to give your deck coating a fighting chance at lasting for any length of time, it may very well be the first time you have ever heard someone describe the methodology for this potentially annoying ongoing maintenance item. Internally, the process seems quite simple […]
What Is The Best Way To Prevent Rusty Nails On Deck & Porch Floors & Steps From Looking Like Rust Spots?
When going about life each day, certain things are bound to catch your eye more so than others. One such thing falling within this category in the home improvement world certainly can be the unsightly rust spots that are found bleeding through the finish on deck and porch floors and steps. These are not only […]
What Is The Purpose Of Lattice?
A number of years ago, I was having a conversation with a client and they were excitedly telling me a story of how the previous day they were looking for a paint product that they knew was around their home, but they just could not figure out where they had left it. Their search took […]
Can You Paint Pressure Treated Wood?
There is no shortage of old wives’ tales in the field of home improvement. As in many other aspects of life, there is guidance and methods of suggested approach regarding different aspects of enhancing your home that not only couldn’t be further from correct, but also may unintentionally cause pain in the long run when […]
What Happens When You Stain Over Paint?
One of the biggest benefits of applying solid stain to the exterior of your home is that typically it does not “fail” in the manner traditional paints “fail”. When people think of exterior paint failing, what comes to mind is often visions of peeling/flaking paint that is significantly unsightly and which would ignite absolute dread […]
What are Lap Marks?
Even though the exterior house stains of today perform much differently than their ancestors from yesteryear, they certainly embody many of their elders’ characteristics. As an example, when able to be used, long-term wise, stains tend not to be as susceptible to peeling as paint is, which has always been one of the more attractive […]
What is Cedar Bleed?
When painting the outside of your home, there are a number of head-scratching odd phenomena that can occur. They tend to rear their head in various forms. Some are super unsightly. Some are not really noticeable, but once you see them, they are hard to ignore moving forward. These annoying nuisances run the gamut of […]
Why Does Wood Turn Gray?
Every once in a while, we get a call from someone who recently noticed exterior natural woodwork at their home begin to “gray out”. It does not matter whether it is a deck in their backyard or siding on the outside of their home, it could be either or, but the question is still the […]
What Causes Pressure Treated Wood to Rot Out?
One of the main reasons why pressure treated wood is used in areas of construction that may be more susceptible to moisture exposure than others, is that it is much more resistant to rot than other wood used to build things, whether on the framing side or the finish side. Even this being the case, […]
