Today was a work day… Since I had done the front porch power washing last week or before?… I needed to get the oil/stain on to finish that side up… We had decided on using Mountain Cedar Woodland Oil stain/sealer…
I had purchased a gallon last week for the project and today I opened it up and did a good job of stirring it… although when I opened the can I thought it looked dark but it must dry down or something?
I put some on in a semi hidden area then stepped back… WOW… that stuff is really “red”? As you can see above I was expecting just some light brown addition to the bare wood… but
That is what I got? probably put on a bit too much before I stopped to check it out… notice the siding on the house… that is Mahogany stain on Cement fiber board… it has a 25 years guarantee to stay that color and we really didn’t want the porch wood to look the same… ? actually more of a Honey Pine stain is all I wanted for it… so I took the can back and showed them the stir stick and the brochure with the color chips and said it must have been mis-labeled…. They agreed and I got my refund then went to Paints and had the paint people open up another can of “Mountain Cedar” and it was the same and they agree it was not the same as the samples they had of Mountain Cedar… which they had a treated board with all the colors done on it and labeled… … the color matched the Mahogany so I guess the whole lot or a bunch of the cans are either mis-labeled or something? I then got the Natural tone and they opened it… matched the sample board fine? I bought that and came home… and spent much of the rest of the day coating the porch…
I just barely got the front rail and the steps done on one gallon and had to make a rush trip back to Lowes at about 2:30 to get some more… this time I got a 3 gallon bucket or the Natural and ended up using about half of that to finish up the decking… I know in that evening light it looks a bit red… but I think it has a lot to do with the background …
This takes the red Mahogany siding out, pretty much and the porch is substantially darker with the Natural oil on it anyway… will see if it lightens up once it dries out… Got that done about 4:30 and got most of my tools put up and cleaned up and then it was time to set down… it was hot with no wind out there? … I should get started on the back deck doing the power wash sometime soon? I don’t move too fast these days.. I have plenty of other small projects to get done as well… one is to get the mesh top on the jeep… for that I have to take the hard top off … might do that this week if it stays cool and I can get into the shop to the winch to lift the top off…
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