Weekend Project Report

Transplanting.

A moment of contrast. #stain

Ready. Set. Stain!

Adding the wood brightener. Don't have a dumb deck, brighten it with Superdeck wood brightener. The brightener will also neutralize any remnant wood stripper from the previous step, so it has double benefits, plus it's pretty satisfying watching the wood brighten right before your eyes.

Stripped deck. Next step, apply wood brightener.

Water sealing.

Letting the wood cleaner do its thing.

Wood cleaned. Next up, new stain.

Scrubbing the wood sucks.

The soil on the hill is full of serpentine rocks. Simple planting is like a major excavation. On the plus side, never need to buy rocks.

Getting the area ready to stain the wood, again.The deck was a test to see if I wanted to actually build a proper one here. It's pine, which you shouldn't build a deck out of, since it doesn't hold up well when in contact to dirt and nature. But it's lasted a few years, with only a little decomposition at the ends that meet the rocks.