Before applying any wood sealer, cleaning your deck or wood is essential to success. Use chlorine bleach if you want to kill germs, - but also your plants-, to bleach out your deck wood and to corrode hardware. Power washing will damage the wood fibers, unseen at first, but cumulative. Use oxygen bleach to avoid all these problems ... and let it do the work for you!
Oxygen bleach is a powerhouse multi-purpose cleaner, and superb as a deck or wood siding cleaner. It doesn't damage wood and surrounding plants and environment, (unlike power washing and chlorine bleach), yet is powerfully effective and so easy to use! Oxygen bleach does the work for you! But beware...not all oxygen bleach is the same. Many oxygen bleach products contain lots of inactive filler.
The top five performing penetrating wood finishes, independently tested, as of November 2000, showing best water repellency and outdoor exposure results as a wood preservative. Note that only one of the exterior wood finishes is a synthetic resin, which will not attract mildew and algae damage like natural oil wood finish products.
A new version of vinyl siding has hit the market. Vinyl siding with a solid core makes siding look like real wood, rattle less -- and-- increases R value for energy savings! If siding of vinyl has turned you off in the past...take a look at this new vinyl siding...it is revolutionary.
The number one problem with vinyl siding is improper installation! Siding of vinyl is not difficult to install, but there are many things you need to know if you want a professional installation. Here are several of the most important aspects of installing vinyl siding.
Spray on siding is often purchased by people who want to stop painting their homes. But the spray-on siding coating homeowners get is often different from what the salesperson promised. All too often the salesperson makes promises that are never written down or communicated to the workmen who apply the coating.
Vinyl siding is a great material to dress up a concrete block structure. Vinyl siding colors are not restricted to the limited five or ten pastel colors that were the choice for so many years. There are hundreds of colors to choose from when you decide on installing vinyl siding.
For wood siding, there are four kinds of galvanized siding nails you can consider: mechanical plated, hot-galvanizing, electroplated and hot dipped. But near an ocean, the best exterior nail is stainless steel.
Cedar siding is a wonderful siding. Cedar siding stains are unwelcome guests. These are extractive bleeding stains caused by water leaking behind your siding and depositing natural chemicals. To prevent this, prime the wood with oil-based paint or special water-based primers that block the stains.
High quality vinyl sidings are a better alternative to painting. Painting wood siding usually occurs every four years. Vinyl siding is installed and finished - there are many vinyl siding colors and styles now that look like wood. Vinyl siding manufacturers have color coordinated products to recreate your paint colors.
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