havenoideaatall
7th August 2006, 11:33 PM
I have an old merbeau deck, some 15 years old which has been uncovered save for an open pergola.
We have now covered it with bronze laserlight to stop it from getting worse.
Some of it is bad, cracked, rotten around the nails, split, the rest is brown where some sort of stain or paint has been applied in the past with grey bits where the stain is missing.
Can't afford to replace it so we will be replacing the worst in a few problem areas - cropping others - and staining the whole lot after a scrub.
Questions:
1) Is a stain a paint for decks? ie you wouldn't entertain a paint as such. I know that this needs to be done every few years but I feel the deck is too far gone for oil.
I was going to go with Feast and Watson's merbeau pigmented stain to try to achieve some sort of uniformity over the new and the old but the bloke in Bunnings suggests I clean extremely well and oil with Cabot's Merbeau oil. I think he is having a laugh and that he doesn't realise how bad it is. The wood itself is OK but its grey and brown and has obviously been painted in the past. I feel that a sanding won't work..
Ideas?
We have now covered it with bronze laserlight to stop it from getting worse.
Some of it is bad, cracked, rotten around the nails, split, the rest is brown where some sort of stain or paint has been applied in the past with grey bits where the stain is missing.
Can't afford to replace it so we will be replacing the worst in a few problem areas - cropping others - and staining the whole lot after a scrub.
Questions:
1) Is a stain a paint for decks? ie you wouldn't entertain a paint as such. I know that this needs to be done every few years but I feel the deck is too far gone for oil.
I was going to go with Feast and Watson's merbeau pigmented stain to try to achieve some sort of uniformity over the new and the old but the bloke in Bunnings suggests I clean extremely well and oil with Cabot's Merbeau oil. I think he is having a laugh and that he doesn't realise how bad it is. The wood itself is OK but its grey and brown and has obviously been painted in the past. I feel that a sanding won't work..
Ideas?