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If your going to restore a deck, chances are you will run into many ideas on how to do it. Here are a couple of myths that are simply untrue.

This statement for the most part is true, but you will also be replacing all your decking too. All wood species, especially cedar, is soft. Too much pressure when restoring a cedar deck will gouge the wood very deep, leaving you the only choice to either replace the boards, or maybe flipping the entire floor over.

This statement is partially true again. Most deck staining companies use a specific stain all year long on all their deck restorations. By doing so, we are able to do what is called a maintenance coat in a couple of years. If you use an oil based stain like Olympic, then next year come back with an acrylic based stain like Behr, you are going to have nothing but a nightmare on your hands. And a quick note about acrylic based stains; these stains just “lay” on top of the wood. They don’t penetrate the wood and protect it like a good oil based stain does.

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