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Best paint for deck by pond?
Phyllis and I painted our deck with a Home Depot Behr deck paint five
or so years ago. The paint was to last 3-5 years. It has, basically. We will repaint this year. We have found a HD paint with a 10 year deck guarantee and 25 years on vertical walls. We have used solid colors as they protect the wood better. Ten years seems good to us! Has anyone suggestions or comments about these or other stains? Jim |
Best paint for deck by pond?
Come on deck painters!
Jim |
Best paint for deck by pond?
Phyllis and Jim wrote:
Come on deck painters! Jim Haven't a clue but I'm eargerly waiting on you getting an answer as the new pond will be right up to the deck and I'll have the same problem. Gill |
Best paint for deck by pond?
I was not happy with Behr paint from HD. we used deck paint from
Menards and it is going on 8 years not a flake anywhere. Ingrid On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:42:12 CST, Phyllis and Jim wrote: Phyllis and I painted our deck with a Home Depot Behr deck paint five or so years ago. The paint was to last 3-5 years. It has, basically. We will repaint this year. We have found a HD paint with a 10 year deck guarantee and 25 years on vertical walls. We have used solid colors as they protect the wood better. Ten years seems good to us! Has anyone suggestions or comments about these or other stains? Jim |
Best paint for deck by pond?
Thanks for the feedback. Learning from other people's experience
beats doing all the experiments myself! Jim |
Best paint for deck by pond?
Phyllis and Jim wrote:
Come on deck painters! Not me... I'm a weathered wood guy :-) -- derek |
Best paint for deck by pond?
Weathered wood in southern sun and humidity...disaster. Even
'treatment' only stops mildew etc. It does not protect from sun and degeration. Must be that (very) northern climate.... We had bare wood in Syracuse... Jim |
Best paint for deck by pond?
Phyllis and Jim wrote:
Weathered wood in southern sun and humidity...disaster. Even 'treatment' only stops mildew etc. It does not protect from sun and degeration. Must be that (very) northern climate.... We had bare wood in Syracuse... Sun ? Who gets sun :-( I did mention that the irises just finished blooming, didn't I. It's been a miserable summer, so far. At least, it hasn't been a disastrous one, as it has been for so many others. -- derek |
Best paint for deck by pond?
Derek Broughton wrote:
Phyllis and Jim wrote: Weathered wood in southern sun and humidity...disaster. Even 'treatment' only stops mildew etc. It does not protect from sun and degeration. Must be that (very) northern climate.... We had bare wood in Syracuse... Sun ? Who gets sun :-( I did mention that the irises just finished blooming, didn't I. It's been a miserable summer, so far. At least, it hasn't been a disastrous one, as it has been for so many others. Well we don't get sun either....at least not this year - last year we had a drought.....our deck gets periously slippy if we don't do any maintenance on it.....had a nice slide across it the other day....prolonged water and frosts surely can only damage wood and there has to be a limit to the length of time you can have "weathered wood" and wood that needs replacing.... JMO Gill |
Best paint for deck by pond?
Gill Passman wrote:
Well we don't get sun either....at least not this year - last year we had a drought.....our deck gets periously slippy if we don't do any maintenance on it.....had a nice slide across it the other day....prolonged water and frosts surely can only damage wood and there has to be a limit to the length of time you can have "weathered wood" and wood that needs replacing.... Sure, but it's not appreciably different to the time that painted wood will last. Wood generally does pretty well as long as it's not exposed to water over the long term. My last deck, which was treated but not painted, was going fine for 13 years before we moved. -- derek |
Best paint for deck by pond?
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:08:38 CST, Derek Broughton
wrote: Phyllis and Jim wrote: Come on deck painters! Not me... I'm a weathered wood guy :-) -- derek I was given the understanding that paint isn't a good thing for pressure treated wood, (That is what they sell for decking here.) since it will seal moisture in as well as out, causing decay to set up. I was told a penetrating stain would work much better. Hal |
Best paint for deck by pond?
Derek Broughton wrote:
Gill Passman wrote: Well we don't get sun either....at least not this year - last year we had a drought.....our deck gets periously slippy if we don't do any maintenance on it.....had a nice slide across it the other day....prolonged water and frosts surely can only damage wood and there has to be a limit to the length of time you can have "weathered wood" and wood that needs replacing.... Sure, but it's not appreciably different to the time that painted wood will last. Wood generally does pretty well as long as it's not exposed to water over the long term. My last deck, which was treated but not painted, was going fine for 13 years before we moved. Yeah, "treated" is what we are thinking of for ours. Do you know of a pond friendly woodstain? Cheers Gill |
Best paint for deck by pond?
I misspoke. Actually, we used a Behr deck stain that is a solid
color. It advertizes all manner of fillers to penetrate into and to restore the wood. The deck is now 10 yrs old and shows no wear or deterioration. The stain is only on the top surfaces (hard to paint under a deck that is 1.5" off the old concrete). We used treated wood. It seems to be doing very well. Jim |
Best paint for deck by pond?
Did you use 5/4 by six deck boards or 2 by six for the top?
Gale :~) "Phyllis and Jim" wrote in message ps.com... I misspoke. Actually, we used a Behr deck stain that is a solid color. It advertizes all manner of fillers to penetrate into and to restore the wood. The deck is now 10 yrs old and shows no wear or deterioration. The stain is only on the top surfaces (hard to paint under a deck that is 1.5" off the old concrete). We used treated wood. It seems to be doing very well. Jim |
Best paint for deck by pond?
We used 2x6 for the top and 2x8 for the joists, set at 24" intervals.
They are screwed down rather than nailed. Jim |
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