I have been asked to paint a massive cedar pergola on the coast in RI. The owners painted the pergola themselves with a Sikkens solid latex stain. Which is what they'd been told to use. Apart from being covered with a green algic mold, the sikkens appeared to be peeling. So I began taking the...

Hey everybody, I do mostly re-paints and not many re-stain projects but I've committed to stripping a rough sawn cedar ceiling that I believe is a solid stain in order to apply a semi-transparent (It's pretty high up and Im embarrassed to admit that I thought it was a semi-transparent when I...