Staining/ weather treating a wooden deck..... suggestions needed

use a small finger roller for a giant deck? Are you being serious?

My neighbor does his with a sprayer every year and it looks good. Im interested in how others do theirs too, because I need to decide what Im going to do with our swing set.

What wood is the deck? If already pressure treated you need to wait 4 to 6 weeks for application. The goal is to impregnate the wood not coat the surface.


If this is new wood a plain bleach 1/2 cup per gallon of water solution will work fine. If the deck is older or has grease on it then a stronger solution would be better or a comercially availabe deck wash. Even if it is new it needs to be washed 1-2 days pruor to staining or sealing.

Its pressure treated wood, deck was built about 2 months ago roughly...

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Do you want to be able to see the grain of the wood or no?

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Probably, we've looked at the stain and some are transparent and others are more like paint. I was wondering mostly about how clean the wood needs to be... just has a little bit of dirt from the dog and kids running on it.

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If this is new wood a plain bleach 1/2 cup per gallon of water solution will work fine. If the deck is older or has grease on it then a stronger solution would be better or a comercially availabe deck wash. Even if it is new it needs to be washed 1-2 days pruor to staining or sealing.

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This and use a garden sprayer. TWS works good, but you need to treat it every year to make it last. If you want, you can add wood stain to the TWS.

If you really want it to look good, spray with bleach solution, scrub with hard brush and let dry. Then sand with a belt sander, remove sawdust with a blower and roll on Thompsons or Bear or similar product.

Get ready to sweat your arse off.

I finally stopped with the sealer (transparent) and went with an oil based stain (not). I also ponied up the money and watched someone do it for me. Best money I've spent in some time too. You will sweat your arse off doing it yourself.