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Re: Staining a deck

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Subject: Re: Staining a deck
From: Rush <jdrush@enter.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:45:46 -0400
We use TWP www.twpstain.com and it will maintain its color for two or 
three years around here. I'm just up the road in Coopersburg.

Jon

Phil Nase wrote:

> I used a Cabot stain this year in May after pressure washing my deck.  The
> stain didn't hold up over the summer.  Where I have an awning covering the
> deck the stain is still good color.  Everywhere else where exposed to sun
> and rain the stain darkened to a dirty brown color.  (I used a cedar stain
> over ceder decking).  Could be the excess rain this year but I'm still
> searching for a decent stain. YMMV.  
> 
> The stain I used was a transparent type.  I used it to have less color in
> hopes that it wouldn't do exactly what it did do.   
> 
> If someone has a good product to use I would appreciate knowing what it is.
> 
> Phil Nase
> Quakertown, PA
> http://home.comcast.net/~philnasecpa




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