Decking Guide: Preparing Your Deck For A New Finish

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The good look of new decks tends to fade with time due to a number of factors most of them being weather related. The original finishing of the deck will have to be replaced with a new one from time to time for it to maintain its glorious look. In this article, we will review how to get your deck ready for a new finishing.

How To Clean Your Decking With Owatrol Net-Trol

The advantage of a new deck is that adding a new coating to it is not difficult. Like any other procedure, you need to clean a surface before adding a new sticking coating to it. This can be easily done using a cleaning agent, preferably Owatrol Net-Trol wood cleaner which not only serves to remove the toughest of stains but also helps to restore the natural colour of the deck.

To clean using this agent, you should wet the surface before applying it. you can then later scrub tougher stains off to ensure a cleaner result. After all this, one shouldn’t forget to rinse the deck with a lot of water and let it dry for a reasonable amount of time.

If you are stressing about a previous coating or painting that had been applied before, then you have nothing to worry about. All you have to do is get rid of the previous applied coating before you apply a new one. As much as it may sound like a tedious process, it in fact isn’t.

We have line up a couple of products for you to use for this purpose. Here is a look at some of them:

Preparing Your Deck For A New Finish

Preparing Your Deck With Owatrol Aquanett

To specifically remove oil stains, one should go for this solvent free remover. It should be put clear that the cleaner doesn’t work well with other stains or even paint. Its big advantage is that it is simple to use and works fast.

One just needs to apply it on the deck surface without any water for close to half an hour before rinsing it with a lot of water as usual. You can choose to scrub to get better results.

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Owatrol Aquanett

Preparing Your Deck With Owatrol Dilunett

This solutions works to remove all oil paint and other paint coatings. It has superior capabilities which enable it to get rid over 5 layers of paint coating comfortably.

Using it is also simple. All you need is to apply a thick layer of the solution on your deck. Let it work for some time before rinsing it off with lots of water while scrubbing. Depending on the number of layers you need to remove, the time you leave the solution on the deck varies.

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Owatrol Dilunett

Preparing Your Deck With Owatrol Prepdeck

The stamps on your wood finally have a solution. They not only make the deck look ugly but prevent one from evenly applying a coating. Owatrol Prepdeck can help you get rid of the stamps. It is applied and remove just like the other cleaning agents.

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Owatrol Prepdeck

After preparing the deck with all these solutions, you should thoroughly clean the deck using Owatrol Net-Trol. This ensures that all of the cleaning solutions too are gone. It is after this that you can apply your new coating.

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