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Bought a $90 'universal' deck stain that turned my wood purple
I was trying to save cash on my back deck project and grabbed a can of 'all wood' stain from the hardware store. It went on okay but after two days in the sun, my nice pressure-treated pine now looks like a grape popsicle. What's a good, affordable stain brand that actually works as advertised?
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max_brown18d ago
My buddy had that exact thing happen with a "bargain" stain last summer. His fence looked like it belonged in a cartoon for a solid month. He ended up using Behr from Home Depot the second time and it actually looked like wood.
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logan_wells17d ago
Oh man, that cartoon fence thing is SO real. My deck turned this insane purple color from a cheap stain, it was like a bad grape juice spill. Had to power wash the whole mess off and start over. Learned the hard way that a few extra bucks for decent stain saves a ton of headache later.
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the_max17d ago
That Behr stain my neighbor used faded to a weird pink after one season. Sometimes the cheap stuff just needs a second coat to even out.
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