But not the fun kind. Completely sanded the entire deck. At least its not to big 16 x 24. I did buy a wood restored tool, basically a hand held drum sander was a game changer though. Even made a jig to hold the spindles for sanding. Last time I sanded the spindles while still attached, this time I just took them off sanded them and the board they are attached to and screwed them back on. Bought some chocolate brown stain and planning on doing that next weekend. I hurt too much to do it tomorrow. I'm getting too old for this stuff. 2nd picture is the spindle holding jig
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Kenny Durrant
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Nice Place.
Dalecamino
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Nice work! I like that jig.
My body agrees with you.
tomtedesco
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What time is the BBQ? Looks very nice.
Wife is making chicken out there later today
it will look better after it's stained, shooting for next weekend.
TellicoTurning
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The deck or the chicken ????Wife is making chicken out there later today
KMCloonan
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I know the exhaustion you get from that. My deck is 33 years old, pressure treated lumber. I had the same battle with my deck 2 years ago, and it seems every 3-4 years before that. I finally gave up, used a pressure washer to clean the wood, then used an opaque stain. The only way it would ever look as nice as yours would be to replace it.
Ray-CA
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We have built two decks at our home in San Diego and I like the weathered gray color that the redwood gets after a bit of exposure. However, this time, we didn't feel like waiting a couple of years for that to happen. So, we did the vinegar and steel wool trick (https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/how-to-age-wood/#:~:text=Soak some steel wool in,even faster in the vinegar) and it worked out great. Plus, it was a lot of dollars less expensive then buying all that stain.
I think that's what we're doing from now on. The new stain is opaque too.