Refinishing the some of the house #1: Repainting the deck
We moved into our house about 2 years ago. I was hoping not to have to start with the maintenance this early. But the paint on deck of the porch it starting to peal up. The clear douglas fir is starting to crack etc. So I am starting to repaint the deck, every evening a little piece. Here you see the deck before I get started, you can see the bare wood in places. I used an oil based primer and a porch paint the first time around. On the picture below the top can. This time I am using a solid stain for floors and decks. No primer needed. These are the cans on the bottom. The reason I have 2 cans, is that they did not have the color I wanted. So we mixed the 2 closest colors. ...
