I am going to be building a deck on my home in northeast Ohio in the next few weeks. I will be using treated lumber for everything; posts, joists, rails, stairs, and deck boards. I’m not sure what I will use for a finish. Someone recommended a product called ONE TIME WOOD. It’s supposed to be an advanced deck stain/sealer that is good for seven years. It looks like a good product, just wanted to ask if anyone here has used it.
If you have another favorite let me know. I’m looking for something that is semi-transparent, durable enough to keep the wood from cracking, and fairly easy to reapply in the future.
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There is a A.M. radio home improvement show (At Home with Gary Sullivan)and he and his listeners swear by it.Gary’s Comments: One Time Wood is unlike anything on the market today. You want to stop sealing your deck every year? Use One Time Wood!
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Wonder how good it really is.
Not sure about finish product, but there's nothing thats gonna stop wolmanized deck boards from cracking.
never heard of it.
what I use on my all PT deck is a semi transparent blue stain on the deck and white solid color stain on the railings ... every other year or three just squirt some deck wash on, hose it all clean and reroll the stain when it's dry.
doesn't take much time at all ... with all stain and no paint, there's no scrubbing or sanding.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Even at my age if it is any good I can still get wood more than once!
I will be using treated lumber for everything; posts, joists, rails, stairs, and deck boards.
I hope you don't have any children or plan on trying to sell that house to anyone who has....
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
foolish men call Justice....
why?
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why?
why [do you hope I don't have children]?
Because children run around on decks barefoot. Toddlers and babies crawl on them, and chew on the balusters, too.
CCA (the previous generation of PT wood) was taken off the market after decades of unregulated use in applications that put it in direct contact with human skin and/or potable water supplies. Nobody knows how many children suffered low-level neurological damage as a result of absorbing CCA through skin contact or from drinking water contaminated by it.
It took many years for the average person to understand that CCA is a poison--and a particularly nasty one at that, containing arsenic and heavy metals--but they finally did, and consumer sales resistance started to have a serious impact on PT industry profits in the late 90s. (Not only that, the government in its slow, ponderous, beetle-browed way, finally started to make noises like it was going to do something about it.)
So the PT wood industry got 'pro-active'...and developed a new poison called ACQ (alkaline copper quatenary). ACQ is an organic poison (which, btw, puts it in the same class as hydrocarbons such as gasoline) and is (gram for gram!) less toxic than CCA. Both these facts have been pushed at the public by makers of ACQ lumber in an effort to lessen the 'curse' of poisoned lumber.
But what the PT industry doesn't publicise is that in order to make the product as resistant to rot and insects, they put many times more ACQ in this generation of PT lumber than they ever put CCA in the older stuff.
ACQ is nasty stuff, organic or not. Full-grown men with calluses from working as carpenters for a lifetime get nasty skin rashes just from handling the stuff. Anyone who cuts it without wearing a respirator mask is courting lung and airway problems, too.
Do you really want your children running around on something built of that stuff?
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Why?
Why?
I put this on my granddaughter's play set in Brecksville (NE Ohio) two years ago. The same year, a contractor put an opaque "deck stain" on my SIL's deck. The deck is peeling and the swingset is fine. My son-in-law would like strip off the deck stain and use it on his deck.
It is a bit expensive, but unlike most deck treatments that are mostly thinner that evaporates away and what's left lasts for a few weeks, it is 100% solds, UV-cured. I figured it would pay for itself many times over in labor cost (either paid or my own).
So far, so good; I'd use it again in a heartbeat.
Their test panels (in Cleveland) are going on 10 years without a problem.
Brecksville? I am in Seven Hills.
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I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia