Deck Project
After I did a little bit of work on the telescope pier the other day, the weather was too good to pass up doing some work on our decks. They were in desperate need of sanding and staining since I had skipped a couple of years due to spending far too much time at the hospital (Sheila's cancer). The weather was ideal... sunny and warm but not too warm... so I pulled out the belt sander and some sanding belts and jumped right into sanding everything that needed to be stained. Everything that needed to be stained was filthy and needed to be cleaned first. It turns out that using the belt sander was the easiest way of cleaning. Plus, this allowed me to smooth out the old decks a little bit too. I grabbed my largest brush, stirred up the stain, and started staining. The following morning, I added the second coat of stain... After two days of drying under the sun, we had a day of solid rain and some localized flooding. The deck now has nice beads of water sitting on top ra