Originally posted by kjacques21
From the many posts I read ready seal gets great reviews and thompsons is despised...any one have an opinion on cabots or olympic products...I am searching for transparents or natural wood looking stains. My market likes the transparent look and actually likes the look of weathered grey wood...maybe I'll teach them other wise
Ken
I don't like Cabots for the reason of stripping, of the decks I have gotten that were stained by the customers were nightmares to strip without needing a sand.
Remember I am in a HOT dry climate and decks in the sun out in this neck of the woods no matter what you put on them need redoing once a year to two and two is pushing it.
Olimpic Natural look in the green can has been doing real well for me both in stripping on return work and holding up okay. The best thing I like about the Olimpic New look is how it really comes out on older decks.
I use SuperDeck Natural alot and sometimes the redwood but if the wood is old the Redwood Super Deck never really looks like it should vs the Olympic. In fact the deck we did yesterday was switched to Olympic from Redwood SD. The customer liked the way I brought the wood back and I told them becuase of it's age the redwood would look dark. So I did a sample brush out and they bit hard on the Olympic.
I am doing on deck that I have had since it was built for five years now I have been putting Natural Super Deck onit and it looks like a vergin deck each time I am done.
Down the road from it I am using Olympic for the first time, she has allways wanted redwood super deck but wants something differant this year to see how it works and lasts.