[Tomahawk]

I am scraping my fence and going to Stain it with Cabot, my question is what is the best way to probate it before putting the stain on?

The old stain was palling off and I do not want it to happen again. What should I use to stop this from happening?

I have used a Deck cleaner on it before I started to scraping it, this is where all the trouble started and I do not believe it was from the cleaner. I do notice that there is green algae on the wood, the wood is around 17 years old and it was pressure treated.

Is there anything that I need to put on it before staining it?

 

[vermontpainter]

Probation is the trickiest part of working on fences. I would give it a probationary period of at least 3 months before applying any finish. At that point, finish selection is key, as after the probationary period, capillary action is likely to be at its highest.

 

[tsunamicontract]

Probation is the trickiest part of working on fences. I would give it a probationary period of at least 3 months before applying any finish. At that point, finish selection is key, as after the probationary period, capillary action is likely to be at its highest.

what he said.
By the way, how did he get his text so loud and annoying?

 

[Tomahawk]

Probation is the trickiest part of working on fences. I would give it a probationary period of at least 3 months before applying any finish. At that point, finish selection is key, as after the probationary period, capillary action is likely to be at its highest.

I live in Ohio and it is going into August so that only gives me 2 months and September is maybe and October is I don't know. The weather at that time of year anything can happen.

You want at least 70 degrees to stain and to dry don't you?

 

[tsunamicontract]

and when stain starts palling it usually becomes a chronic problem, so I would recommend a probation period of at least over winter, which allows the selected finish to be applied in the early spring, when capillary action is higher. You also may try an capillatory stimulating cleaner 2 days before you finish the fence. This should reduce palling of future finishes.

 

[vermontpainter]

It depends on how advanced the palling is. Palling is a rare paint failure and needs to be treated with extreme preventionary measures. I would extend the probationary period for as long as possible, and if the fence shows any unacceptable behavior, not even as serious as palling, I would extend it more and perhaps resort to firing with butane to prevent further abnormalities. The temperature is not such a big deal, you could use a low temperature stain on the fence and do it anytime.

 

[Tomahawk]

It depends on how advanced the palling is. Palling is a rare paint failure and needs to be treated with extreme preventionary measures. I would extend the probationary period for as long as possible, and if the fence shows any unacceptable behavior, not even as serious as palling, I would extend it more and perhaps resort to firing with butane to prevent further abnormalities. The temperature is not such a big deal, you could use a low temperature stain on the fence and do it anytime.

What happens if I would wash it down with Bleach and water?

 

[tsunamicontract]

What happens if I would wash it down with Bleach and water?

well I would imagine it would get wet!

 

[vermontpainter]

What happens if I would wash it down with Bleach and water?

Before we go further into technical discussion, and in order to help you better...How long have you been painting professionally?

 

[tsunamicontract]

But Vermontpainter, what do you think would happen? I would be worried that it would melt. Like the wicked witch. I would strongly consider having Nate Severson of Seversons Painting come in to paint it. He would be well worth paying him the mileage to drive there as he might even mix wallpaper glue into the finish which would certainly help improve the substrates behavior and might alleviate the need to try the butane method.

 

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