Deck sealer...use any successfully?

[ragkar]

In the forum alt.home.repair thompsons is bad mouthed and Cabot is generally recommended.

I've considered Sikkens Cetol for my log house siding and found a reference that Sikkens Cetol SRD is recommended by consumers reports. So I'm going with that. SRD is cheaper than Cetol also.

Anecdote, I've just about finished staining my deck and since I live alone, didn't put up barriers. Guess what, my neighbor decides to come over to tell me that he's going to be cutting wood on his property and he walks all over my not dry deck.

 

[davitk]

Mr. Murphy?

 

[Podunkadunk]

Too bad a company doesn't mix a tint with cooking grease, because it's difficult as hades to get off and water beads on it for years. I have a spot on my back deck that (I found out from the previous owner) his wife spilled a fry-daddy of hot grease on. That's been 4 years ago, right after the house was built. The stuff's amazing.

(Off topic)
As for concrete sealer, I can't believe a company hasn't thought of using "Armor all". I have marks all over my driveway from spraying my tires. It leaves semi-circular marks all over the place. It's hardly noticeable when the driveway is dry, but you can see every one of them when it rains...water beading, dry underneath and white as a sheet under the armor all. "Tire Wet" does the same thing. Again, amazing.

Podunk

 

[ToadHill]

Years ago at the old place, I used motor oil drained from the tractor to treat the porch. You couldn't walk on it for about 3 weeks but it turned the wood a nice brown color and it sealed it for at least 7 years.

 

[Soundguy]

Years ago at the old place, I used motor oil drained from the tractor to treat the porch. You couldn't walk on it for about 3 weeks but it turned the wood a nice brown color and it sealed it for at least 7 years.

...and made a good source of heavy metals available to feet that walked on it.. and every time it rained, very small amounts of it leached into the environment...


soundguy

 

[ragkar]

I asked today at the paint store how to remove footprints left in Cabot Color deck stain. Re-staining is not an option since one coat is a flat color and the second coat is glossy.
Their best advice is to sand the footprints out and re-stain.

 

[Bird]

I've considered Sikkens Cetol for my log house siding and found a reference that Sikkens Cetol SRD is recommended by consumers reports. So I'm going with that. SRD is cheaper than Cetol also.

Did you mean the SRD is cheaper than "Cabot" instead of Cetol?

As I mentioned before, there was a full gallon of Sikkens Cetol Dek here when I bought this house 3 years ago. While that can had not been opened, I suspect the same product had been used in the past on the deck, so I applied a new coat in Oct. 2005. So I decided it was probably time to apply another coat and I was afraid I might come up just a tiny big short of material, so I called around yesterday to try to find a place to buy another gallon. I found a young fellow in a paint warehouse in Dallas who told me he had a gallon of it in his hand, so I drove a little over 23 miles one way to go get it this morning. What the kid had was Sikkens Cetol SRD instead of the Sikkens Cetol DEK that I wanted. He tried to tell me it's the same thing because the SRD means "Siding Rails Decks". If they're the same thing, then I'd wonder why the few places that have the DEK want over $60 a gallon while the SRD is much cheaper. Anyway, it is the same color code (078 Natural), and it's cheaper, so I went ahead and bought the SRD; $37.91 including tax. And I finished applying it just about noon. It's the same color and it smells the same, but the SRD is thinner. Now that may only be because the DEK that I still had has been here at least 3 years and has been opened and some used twice in the past, and of course, I've never added any thinner to it. So when I finished, I poured what little DEK I still had into the SRD and I'm probably a pint short of having a full gallon. So I've got plenty to do the deck again someday.

The deck is 12' x 22' with a 12' long and 2' wide step at each end. The first picture was taken from the south looking north before I put the new coat of sealer on and the second picture is from the north looking south after application and is also of a more true color..

 

[Podunkadunk]

...and made a good source of heavy metals available to feet that walked on it.. and every time it rained, very small amounts of it leached into the environment...


soundguy

He was only protecting his deck. Do you know how many carcinogens leak into ALL our water from blacktop highways? From highway water runoff/leaky vehicles. Jeesh, the amount coming from his deck doesn't even register in comparison to the amount of fuel that is dumped DAILY in aviation. I could go on, but won't. My soapbox just collapsed.

Just givin' you a hard time.

 

[mjarrels]

Once had a F-14A dump fuel on my then new 1983 Nissan truck... Talk about a MESS!

mark

 

[coachgrd]

the kid had was Sikkens Cetol SRD instead of the Sikkens Cetol DEK that I wanted. He tried to tell me it's the same thing because the SRD means "Siding Rails Decks". [/FONT]

Bird, I looked into those products when I first built the deck it seems to me that one or the other (probably DEK) is for a new, previously uncoated deck. And, if remember correctly, there was a specific procedure you had to follow, like apply a second coat 6 months after the first.

Then again, my memory is less than reliable. I do remember thinking I could not afford the stuff though, like you said it is not cheap!