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Posted: 07 October 2006 at 6:20pm |
Nothing to do with babies or children as such but it's definately a job I wanna do before I think about getting preggers as I can't imagine myself doing it while pregnant or while a mini me is running around..
We have a massive deck. The old owners at one time, probably about 15 yrs ago, painted it grey (how boring!), a fair lot of the paint has come off but there is still traces of it on the deck. I wanna stain the deck or make it look like it's stained.
2 reasons for this is that I want the wood protected from the weather a bit and also it would look way better as right now it's faded and boring looking.
Would it be easier to strip the paint and stain it? Or would the stain work by itself since most of the paint is gone anyway? or paint it? Staining is far quicker than painting as you don't have to be as precise. It's quite a large deck too.
I'm trying to figure out how much it's gonna cost and how much prep work I'm going to need to do for it. Then I can move onto another project! 
Any thoughts on what would be quickest/easier/cheapest and look the best would be most welcome!
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miss
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Posted: 07 October 2006 at 6:51pm |
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I don't think you want to stain it till you have all the paint off. I know there is that good stripping stuff they sell at the malls sometimes - you have probably seen it too. They have a couple of doors and have stripped old paint off it. I have heard that it is very good stuff, but it is probably quite pricey.
Staining is better than painting, I reckon - our little deck is painted and it just doesn't look that flash. I think staining is much more natural and gives it that good weather proofing you want.
Have fun - we are diy-ing too, it is fun (but builds up $$ wise).
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Posted: 07 October 2006 at 6:56pm |
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Yeah I know, we have so many things we want to do to this house. Luckily most don't involve any major work apart from in the garden so it's mostly going to be stuff like curtains and paint to spend money on but even that is expensive enough!
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Posted: 07 October 2006 at 7:32pm |
Strip it for sure! My husband has used that Coopers wood-stripper on bits of our home (one of those started 5 years ago waiting to be finished jobbies!), an the wood does come up beautifully, but the thing is you still have to heat-gun or sand back the original paint before using the Coopers, which is then a 3-step process after that. So if you're going to have to bother stripping the wood, and it's wood that could handle being say, heat-gunned then sanded, then stained, that'd be easier and quicker. Still a fair bit of work (I hate stripping paint!), but less work (and cheaper) than using Coopers, which seems to be more of a product for indoor woodwork anyway.
Staining straight over the paint would look pretty paru, but is exactly the sort of thing I'd suddenly do one day in a fit of under-funded frustrated nesting!! We have the world's most disgraceful kitchen cupboards that when this house was hubby's flat (flat full of boys) got written over in vivid markers!! I hate them with a passion, so today after nearly 2 years of grimacing at them and waiting for them to be fixed I just painted over them - no priming, nothing. It's fair to say I've made a wee improvement, but they still look so crap it's actually funny! Especially since on 2 doors the writing still shows through! (oh for shame). Maybe you shouldn't take my DIY advice after all!! Ah, I know how to do better, I just don't.
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Posted: 07 October 2006 at 8:11pm |
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Stacey, go to the place on the corner of Albert and Featherston St they sell paint stripper at half the price of coopers. I don't think I would want to use coopers outdoors far too expresive. They stain it after stripping it. Also ask at the likes of Mitre 10 Mega and Bunnings what you should do as they are paid to answer those questions.
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Posted: 07 October 2006 at 8:16pm |
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Yeah I thought about asking them, but the thing is I know people who work there and don't have a clue about anything that they are asked so I'm not exactly really trusting of the advice that I might get from those stores lol..
I'll see what our leftover stripper does tomorrow maybe (we have a lil left from when we were painting our last place) and see how much work it's gonna be
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Posted: 07 October 2006 at 10:51pm |
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I agree on people working htere not knowing everything - we have had to fix up part of a wall that was letting moisture into the house, and the told me at PLacemakers to use mulseal or the other bitumen one - while I was looking at it a holdfast rep came along and actually explained to me a number of things about the products. TYhings like the fact those products eat away at polystyrene(which the placemakers guy said to use next to the product he said to get). They also gave me a sealant product for the gap between wall and house that wouldn't have been any good at all - it said multipurpose but was more for indoor. If I hadn't met the guy, it would have cost me twice as much to fix the problem and wouldn't have actually fixed it!
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Posted: 08 October 2006 at 9:55am |
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Yeah, I've decided I'm gonna use any old stripper and borrow my parents water blaster which should remove quite a bit of it. Only annoying part is that the wood has to be completely dry before you can put stripper on which kind of sucks
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