Beautifying Your Back Deck

" Regular you for a ball home improvement project and will not to break the bank a lot of people are so how about unifying your back deck and protecting it all the same time we ask an expert to show us how. Volunteer and winner is close behind so is your backyard deck ready to face the elements."

" If you spend thousands of dollars on your -- you don't treat it may only last 45 years if untreated could last as long as 25 -- thirty years we met up with home improvement expert Jeff Wilson for a lesson in protecting your deck. And making it beautiful all at this ain't time to clean your -- and treating it is really it's a very important thing to do it's also. An inexpensive thing to do not only is it gonna protect your deck against the weather right front. Water and mold and mildew and a son I'm so it'll protect your investment in your neck. But also it's a chance to beautify your deck inexpensively first received your deck needs to be treated by doing a splash test on the most traveled parts we take a little bit of water and on an older -- like the like this board I have here. I I splashed the water on to -- look for water darken the would very quickly. And and what's with that this is telling you was that the would just -- since accepting the water now on a piece it's treated like this we just in this through the day. You put the water on anything can see how it speeds up. You know that the with protected and you don't have to treat your background now next prepare your debt with a good lots more prepared the surface first so that's a coding that you choose. Can actually here and and do the job of supposed to do if you don't clean it. Well you can leave those contaminants that they're -- do the algae and those who interfere with with the -- and you'll have to you know go back and maintain it in this case given that Reynolds figured out how to twelve to fifteen years old. It had a lot of mold and mildew is almost black. -- and we used heavy duty -- cleaner and then spread out on the deck. You except for maybe 1015 minutes to with a clean your work. And then go over with a stiff bristle brush like this and that Obama's -- you know sort of brushed off what what has come up from the cleaner. And then sprayed down really low risk and actually well just with a strong spring from an -- Let it dry from a few hours to a couple of days depending on the product that you're using. And then it's time for the fun part choosing the color. So you have a lot of choices insane these days the owner of this house wanted to carry his motif from inside to the outside so he's got one floors me inside sort of a birch bark trim. A color so we're gonna do honey gold would protector on the deck surface itself and on the balusters on the railing that kind of thing. But then as an accent he chose this birch bark that can house came from Thompson's abortion now both of these products will protect. And beautify the same time. I'm saying again have a lot of choices you can you can you're not just gonna do -- maintenance job but you're actually going to -- and some awesome beauty tunes while this is really the easiest part of the job and it's the most rewarding right you get to see that that change collar just gonna -- into a pain pan here. I'm gonna anticipate to have the -- this is it really easy to use on a flat surface and he's a poll and it it'll save your back we'll be bent over. Don't think it's up into a corner."

" So protected beautify your back deck now before it's too late and you and your family will enjoy your outdoor space for years to come. And check your local disposal regulations before disposing of her left over water sealer or if you like to save it for future touch -- you can't just make sure the containers completely sealed when it. It is my."