[tsunamicontract]

So we painted one face of a building and proceeded to sand and stain the two small decks with oil based deckscapes. At one point I looked up and the sky was starting to get dark. I had my guy with a smartphone check the weather and found out we were in trouble. In less than 15 minutes all hell broke loose. We didn't even have a chance to get everything under cover, the wind blew around ladders and knocked over stain bucks. We all got drenched including the parts of the decks that we stained. After it was all over (about 20 min) I broomed off the water and blotted stuff dry. I didn't get a chance to do the wet on wet coat on the horizontals. So now I have a rained on 1 coat of partially finished stain. What do I do now?
Do I go back in the morning and finish my wet on wet coats because it probably wont be cured by then? Do I just stain over it? Do I have to strip it all off and start over?

 

[slickshift]

You'll have to make a judgment call when you see it
Depends on how it looks now, and which products you are using

Fortunately when this has happened to me, I have been able to go over it the next day, and it didn't look too bad
I'd hesitate to say that would be the case everytime

...it also sounds like you got hammered there

 

[tsunamicontract]

arg it ended up thunderstorming all night, I will just have to strip it. They really need to get better at predicting the weather.

 

[vermontpainter]

Tsunami

Its kind of like closing the gate after all the cows got out...but on any day that we are doing exterior, I am on weather.com at 5 a.m. for the zip code we are working in. If they predict afternoon showers, which is usually the case here, we work vertical surfaces until noon and then go into rainy day mode. Definitely wouldnt do any horizontals on a day that has even 40% chance. Thats about as far as I would push the envelope.

As to your case, it sounds like you will be needing to remove the stuff you did that got wet and redo. It may be a messy to task to remove uncured water contaminated oil stain. Its always good to conquer a new challenge though. And you dont make that same mistake twice. You need to be the one with the smart phone, anticipating and checking weather with a constant eye on the sky.

Its ironic that this happened to a company called Tsunami! You should be much more in tune with torrential downpours! Let us know how this is resolved, its a good reminder for us all.

 

[tsunamicontract]

Scott,
Thanks for helping me see the humor in this, lol.
The only thunderstorms in the forecast at 9 a.m. and at noon were the ones that we just barely avoided around 1. This one that got us was not predicted or on radar even by noon. But yah, just another notch on the old belt i guess. Not excited to strip and neutralize it all again, but at least we were only half done

 

[premierpainter]

I think that Deckscapes can be put on a wet deck (I have never done this) so maybe your fine. They say that you can pw and stain the same day. Might only be the latex deckscapes....I'm confused

 

[tsunamicontract]

The only product I am aware of that cause be used on wet wood is the WoodTux stuff. This was a custom dark, pretty opaque grey so it had to go deckscapes. The SW rep didn't say that it was wet applyable.

 

[MAK-Deco]

opaque grey so it had to go deckscapes.

Is it solid color? why only SW deckscapes? no one else make stain?

 

[tsunamicontract]

no, just that I had them tint it to a semi opaque color and i didn't feel confident that anyone else in my area would do a decent job. And I have never used stain from BM, how is their stuff?

 

[edtrujillo]

What To Do

You need to remove the stain you put on and start all over. Try Cabot's deck stain remover and a pressure washer

 

[MAK-Deco]

no, just that I had them tint it to a semi opaque color and i didn't feel confident that anyone else in my area would do a decent job. And I have never used stain from BM, how is their stuff?

i don't use BM's stains... For Decks it Sikkens or Cabots for me... Cabot makes a semi solid.. by semi opaque are you referring to a semi trans-parent?

 

[tsunamicontract]

Cabot makes a semi solid.. by semi opaque are you referring to a semi trans-parent?

i went right in between. its a semi with just enough pigment. almost semi solid, not quite. looks real sharp on the cedar, not as hot on the treated floor boards. not so sharp any more either lol.
I don't have a good cabots store near me, just lil hardware stores. they have decent service but not much knowledge about paints. Where do you guys get your cabots?

 

[rehoboth]

Deckscapes has a waterborne version of their stains that can be used on wet wood. I've used it on a deck I stained last year and its holding up real well.
http://www.sherwin-williams.com/pro/sherwin_williams_paint/sherwin_williams_paints/exterior_coatings/stains/index.jsp

 

[MAK-Deco]

i went right in between. its a semi with just enough pigment. almost semi solid, not quite. looks real sharp on the cedar, not as hot on the treated floor boards. not so sharp any more either lol.
I don't have a good cabots store near me, just lil hardware stores. they have decent service but not much knowledge about paints. Where do you guys get your cabots?

I get mine at a hardware store. I know cabots products enough that I don't need to talk to the guy that doesn't know anything about paint

 

[bikerboy]

i went right in between. its a semi with just enough pigment. almost semi solid, not quite. looks real sharp on the cedar, not as hot on the treated floor boards. not so sharp any more either lol.
I don't have a good cabots store near me, just lil hardware stores. they have decent service but not much knowledge about paints. Where do you guys get your cabots?

One of my main suppliers is a Cabot's dealer, so it's easy for us. it's popular in this area.

 

[EricTheHandyman]

I get mine at a hardware store. I know cabots products enough that I don't need to talk to the guy that doesn't know anything about paint

hardware store here also, I used to sell it in a previous life, so I was trained by Cabot and I don't need the teenager at the store to tell me what to get.