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How We Transform & Maintain Your Deck
New deck construction often instructs customers to wait a year or two before staining to allow the wood the dry out, leaving people surprised by how fast it fades to gray over time timeframe. See the value our sanding restoration and penetrating oil stain process. We guarantee your deck will Never Peel Again.
See the difference our hard sanding restoration makes on this western red cedar deck. An application of true penetrating oil stain absorbs and seals the wood while allowing breathability. All part of guarantee that your deck will Never Peel Again.
Another example of peeling cedar finish that we’ve restored and refinished with a thin, penetrating oil stain that’s guaranteed to never peel. Our oil stain absorbs and seals the wood while allowing breathability. All part of our guarantee that your deck will Never Peel Again.
This is an example of our favourite kind of job: a red cedar deck with a thick, peeling semi-transparent stain finish. It’s our favourite because know with certainty how to restore and maintain cedar, and how to remove the thick semi-transparent stain and replace it with a thin, penetrating oil stain in a colour of your choice. All part of guarantee that your deck will Never Peel Again.
We pride ourselves in taking the best care of specialty woods like Ipe. Even if you don’t mind the faded gray, we have regular maintenance care programs to keep your Ipe clean, free of mold & mildew, and looking its best every year. This works for tinted oil, clear oil, and unoiled Ipe. It’s part of guarantee that your deck will Never Peel Again.
Our most popular blog post takes hard a stand that pressure treated lumber should not be sanded (with the exception of if it’s already been finished with a thick stain or sealer that must be removed before a penetrating oil stain product.) Here’s and example of a previously unfinished pressure treated deck the we coated with a penetrating oil stain and no sanding that we happily guarantee will never peel.
Even pressure treated lumber with solid stained can be restored, although it's a lot of work once solid / opaque stain or paint has been applied. Just one application of a thick coating like this makes it impossible to look perfect again. But just one restoration and regular maintenance and keep a deck that never peels again.
Here’s an example of a customer getting routine annual maintenance done. You can see in the Before photo that the deck has faded, but did not flake, chip, bubble, or peel. The After photo shows a fresh maintenance application. When maintained regularly, the deck never needs to be sanded / restored again. It’s built into our guarantee that your deck will Never Peel Again.
We restore, stain, and maintain wood fences too. See the difference our hard sanding restoration makes on this western red cedar fence with an application of true penetrating oil stain. Full absorption, leaving no film to form on top of the wood, allowing breathability. All part of guarantee that your deck / fence / exterior wood will Never Peel Again.
Thicker stains cannot penetrate deep into the wood like a true penetrating oil stain. In Ottawa, this means your solid / opaque stains / paints / even thick semi-transparent stains will will flake, chip, or peel after the first winter. We have guaranteed your deck will never peel or we’ll fix it for free since day one, and we always will.
Mold, mildew, and moisture gets trapped in the wood when using film forming products that don't allow the wood to breathe. Film forming products are typically thick, water based products and can be either stains or sealers or paints. Here you see a water based sealer that trapped the moisture under the sealer so it could not escape, creating a black mold that we sanded through and replaced with a thin penetrating oil finish, guaranteed to Never Peel Again.
We pride ourselves in taking the best care of specialty woods like Thermory Ash. Even if you don’t mind the faded gray, we have regular maintenance care programs to keep your Thermory Ash clean, free of mold & mildew, and looking its best every year. This works for tinted oil, clear oil, and unoiled Ipe. It’s part of guarantee that your deck will Never Peel Again.
From gray to gold: another Before, During & After. Faded cedar hard sanded restoration to freshly applied penetrating oil stained finish. This is the Sand & Stain System, and we guarantee your wood project will never peel.
Here’s a detailed look at the Before & After, as well as the During. This hard sand restoration is the most important step to get your wood finish & protection off the right start and never peels. Just look at the value sanding yields after removing all previous stains and sealers and removing all sun-faded gray wood. This is the Sand & Stain System, and we guarantee your wood project will never peel.
Meet Sandy, Our Newest Hire!
Sandy, our AI Customer Support Agent, has been trained solely on our proprietary systems and information. Meaning, Sandy does not scrape information from the general internet—only what we teach her.
For example, other contractors use pressure / power washing to prep their deck and exterior wood before staining. This is something we never recommend, and Sandy knows not to recommend that to you.
If there are any questions that she can’t answer, we’ll be notified and will train her how to respond going forward. In the meantime, she has been trained on all of our FAQ, all of our blog posts, videos, etc., and is automatically updated when new content is added to the website or anywhere in our proprietary database.
Enjoy working with Sandy in the meantime! She can have both chat conversations and voice conversations to serve you. Thank you for choosing Sand & Stain to provide you with a peel-free, worry-free deck maintenance outcome.
NOTE: no employees have been let go since hiring Sandy. We work together with AI Sandy so we can do less repetitive tasks, answer specific questions outside of business hours, and focus on serving you better in ways that only humans can.