painting a deck

[rh71]

we've moved into our new place for a year now and after having the kids ride their ride-on toys all over it (hard plastic wheels), the paint has been chipped in a few areas. Some of the WOOD planks are splitting a bit too. Is this from their abuse or just because of time? Was wondering if it's still ok to just paint and seal it.

Is it really bad to have those toys on the deck?

What's the quickest way to paint the deck... is it unconventional to use a sprayer? Can we use rollers (never really seen it done on anything but walls)?

Want to do it the quickest way possible - must we chip off the old paint first or can we just paint right over the current? Do we use a primer?

 

[SillyOReilly]

Get rid of the kids, save your deck

 

[rudder]

Using a sprayer is fast... but you have to put up plastic everywhere and it wastes a lot of paint/stain. Easiest to use brushes.

 

[xSauronx]

my brother just did one with a roller, seemed to go pretty quick and easy

 

[rh71]

Get rid of the kids, save your deck

if we got rid of the kids we wouldn't have even had to move here in the first place!

 

[SillyOReilly]

Okay, so you expect me to believe that you were the very best that your generation of Navy SEALs had to offer? I highly doubt that. If you were as good as you say you were, i don't think for a second that you would be browsing ATOT. This is mostly a place for jobless neckbeards that still live with their parents, and nerdy high school kids that don't have any friends. It really isn't the place for highly-trained assassins to be hanging out in their spare time. Even if it was, something far worse than a troll being mean to you probably would have set you off a long time ago. What about the slew of gore and child pornography that gets posted here on a regular basis? Isn't that something that deserves a person being hunted down and made to regret their actions? Yeah, you're just not the ATOT type. Sure, there's a wide variety of people that browse here, but you're far from the core demographic if you are who you say you are (which isn't the case). Even if it were true that you're an incredibly talented soldier, I think all the military discipline would prevent you from getting mad enough to murder some random idiot on the internet. I also doubt that even the best SEALs have a "secret network of spies across the USA". Why would all of the most expansive Big Brother network in the world be willing to help a troubled PTSD-sufferer hunt down some random kid on the internet? That doesn't even make sense. If you're gonna try to scare somebody, make it more believable than "IM A SUPER SOLDIER HURR DURR". You might frighten a thirteen year old who doesn't know any better, but to must of us you just look like a kid with an anger problem and a very active imagination. Hopefully things will be easier for you when your puberty's over. Best of luck with that... kiddo.

 

[rh71]

Okay, so you expect me to believe that you were the very best that your generation of Navy SEALs had to offer? I highly doubt that. If you were as good as you say you were, i don't think for a second that you would be browsing ATOT. This is mostly a place for jobless neckbeards that still live with their parents, and nerdy high school kids that don't have any friends. It really isn't the place for highly-trained assassins to be hanging out in their spare time. Even if it was, something far worse than a troll being mean to you probably would have set you off a long time ago. What about the slew of gore and child pornography that gets posted here on a regular basis? Isn't that something that deserves a person being hunted down and made to regret their actions? Yeah, you're just not the ATOT type. Sure, there's a wide variety of people that browse here, but you're far from the core demographic if you are who you say you are (which isn't the case). Even if it were true that you're an incredibly talented soldier, I think all the military discipline would prevent you from getting mad enough to murder some random idiot on the internet. I also doubt that even the best SEALs have a "secret network of spies across the USA". Why would all of the most expansive Big Brother network in the world be willing to help a troubled PTSD-sufferer hunt down some random kid on the internet? That doesn't even make sense. If you're gonna try to scare somebody, make it more believable than "IM A SUPER SOLDIER HURR DURR". You might frighten a thirteen year old who doesn't know any better, but to must of us you just look like a kid with an anger problem and a very active imagination. Hopefully things will be easier for you when your puberty's over. Best of luck with that... kiddo.

hey hey hey, I just want to paint my damned deck! So that's why I'm asking you neckbeards.

quoted for wrong-thread lols.

 

[ponyo]

was it stained or painted? I stained my deck last week. Last stain was 3 years ago so it was looking little rough. I didn't have anything peeling so I sprayed some deck cleaner and then stained it the next day. I sprayed the whole thing with a power sprayer. Took about 6 gallons. You're supposed to roll and then brush for a proper job but I don't care. None of the stuff really last and I know I will have to re-stain it in a year or two regardless how I applied it. It only took me 30 minutes to spray vs hours of rolling and brushing.


If your paint is chipping and peeling, you need to sand that down first. Then spray the deck with something like TSP cleaner to clean the paint and the area. You can paint directly over the previous paint. You don't need to prime it. It might require two coats depending on the color. If you use the same color, you can get away with one coat.

 

[Zargon]

was it stained or painted? I stained my deck last week. Last stain was 3 years ago so it was looking little rough. I didn't have anything peeling so I sprayed some deck cleaner and then stained it the next day. I sprayed the whole thing with a power sprayer. Took about 6 gallons. You're supposed to roll and then brush for a proper job but I don't care. None of the stuff really last and I know I will have to re-stain it in a year or two regardless how I applied it. It only took me 30 minutes to spray vs hours of rolling and brushing.


If your paint is chipping and peeling, you need to sand that down first. Then spray the deck with something like TSP cleaner to clean the paint and the area. You can paint directly over the previous paint. You don't need to prime it. It might require two coats depending on the color. If you use the same color, you can get away with one coat.

then you are doing it wrong and/or using crappy stain.

my parents house is 25 years old and we have stained the deck 3 times

 

[Howard]

hey hey hey, I just want to paint my damned deck! So that's why I'm asking you neckbeards.

quoted for wrong-thread lols.

He did that intentionally. He's been posting that shit in various threads.

 

[SillyOReilly]

He did that intentionally. He's been posting that shit in various threads.

I have?

This is the only thread that I have pasted it in.

You need a fucking life.

 

[sdifox]

brush is best, but rollers are fine too. Spraying gets very expensive and messy. you need to clean or maybe even strip the deck first though.

I would stain rather than paint.

 

[MayorOfAmerica]

Use a decking stain. Paint creates all kinds of extra work (e.g. scraping). Scraping the ballisters and reapplying paint in a few years takes forever, whereas using a deck stain just requires you reapply the stain (unless you go WAY overboard with the stain, which can cause it to flake as well). I'd say put a little work in up front by removing all the paint and applying the stain. In a few years, you will thank youself that you dont have to go through the scraping process which can damange the wood if you mess up. I know with stain the general rule is reapply every 4 years, though like paint this can vary depending on exposure to the sun/weather/amount of traffic/etc.

Not sure that I need to say it but stain comes in (mostly) transparent, semi-transparent and solid mixtures. If you want the look of paint, use a solid, and they can mix just about any color you want. I prefer a semi-transparent myself as it allows the wood grain to still show.

Also, paint or stain, you want to use a brush, it works the product into the wood better.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Painting a duck would be way more awesome.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Painting a duck would be way more awesome.

Painting a dog would be way more awesome

 

[Squisher]

Use a decking stain. Paint creates all kinds of extra work (e.g. scraping). Scraping the ballisters and reapplying paint in a few years takes forever, whereas using a deck stain just requires you reapply the stain (unless you go WAY overboard with the stain, which can cause it to flake as well). I'd say put a little work in up front by removing all the paint and applying the stain. In a few years, you will thank youself that you dont have to go through the scraping process which can damange the wood if you mess up. I know with stain the general rule is reapply every 4 years, though like paint this can vary depending on exposure to the sun/weather/amount of traffic/etc.

Not sure that I need to say it but stain comes in (mostly) transparent, semi-transparent and solid mixtures. If you want the look of paint, use a solid, and they can mix just about any color you want. I prefer a semi-transparent myself as it allows the wood grain to still show.

Also, paint or stain, you want to use a brush, it works the product into the wood better.

If it has been previously painted it will be very hard to go back to stain (complete removal of the paint). The fact that it's chipping makes me think it is painted.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Painting a dog would be way more awesome

Ohh man, a duck standing on a dog standing on a deck, paint all three for the paint trillogy!

 

[Phokus]

Use deck restore:

http://www.synta.com/prod_restoredeck2.html

It's kind of like a combination of paint and sand. It lasts for 10+ years.

Use a matching paint finish for the vertical parts of your deck:

http://www.synta.com/prod_restorestain.html

I applied this myself and it works beautifully. Don't have to replace my deck and repaint for a long long time.

They have a sample book of the colors at home depot, but i'd order from the manufacturer website.

Edit: There's a color called 'california rustic' that i used, absolutely gorgeous results.

 

[rh71]

Use deck restore:

looks like a good easy solution. But does the surface seem smooth enough afterward? Saw reviews that said it didn't feel good on the feet, though we're not going to walk on it barefoot. Just don't want it to look "dotted" or like smooth sandpaper.

Also, did you find that it ended up costing about $1/sqft? We have about 530sqft of L-shaped deck so it can get pricey compared to a regular stain (not sure on that cost).

 

[Howard]

I have?

This is the only thread that I have pasted it in.

You need a fucking life.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in guerrilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

 

[calvinbiss]

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in guerrilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

Quoted for originality

 

[Howard]

Quoted for originality

It's not original. He posted that in another thread and then claimed here that he hadn't done something so ridiculous.