Rescuing Old Deck
My deck was worn and weather getting splintery in desperate need of either replacement or paint to make it last a few more years. Short on funds so the painting was the choice. I sanded it down removing the old crack weathered paint and some of the splinters. That was a big a task! I used a small hand sander to do that on the whole thing. Next came the deck wash that is required for Olympic Deck Rescue Paint. Says its require in order make the paint stick better and keep it from peeling off. After all that I took a look at the deck. Big gashes and cracks in the wood. Back to Low's to buy some paint project calk. Filled in the major big cracks/gashes. Put on the first coat of Olympic Deck Rescue Paint and painted the rails. Took several days of work to get through each process. Still a nother coat of paint needed. Directions says requires two coats. Waiting for a good dry day for the second coat to be applied. Took a days break to rest. That was yesterdays hike blogged in the previous post. The raised flower beds are done and painted as well to match the color of the deck paint. It looks pretty good. The deck now resembles expensive composite decking. I think it should last several more years. At some point the whole deck will have to be replaced. The sun has drawn the wood and rails different directions and it has shifted position some. Hoping the four by four post that is concreted in the ground is not rotting! Proud of myself for the hard work. Cost about $275.00 instead of approx. $2000.00 for new deck. The Olympic Desk Rescue paint is $40.00 per gallon took three gallons of that plus paint brushes, rollers, sand paper, deck wash, and painters project caulk. Oops! forgot another $30.00 for a gallon of white for the rails.
Spent more money on dirt to fill in the raised flower bed including the landscape timbers. I hope not have many more projects any time soon so I can recover financially. Keeping fingers crossed that nothing breaks or needs maintenance.
Yep, Trying not to think about the storage building needing repair and the picnic table that needs the same thing done. Maybe next few months.....
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