Although these Scotts Valley residents were thrilled with the end result,  I felt a bit differently with this 500 s/f deck.  There was definitely a night & day difference after it was finished, it’s just that  sometimes a deck needs a couple of years of good old fashioned TLC before it finds its groove for the long haul.  This was one of those decks.  It was fairly new construction.  It was neglected.  It was built in several stages.  It had fading material on parts of it.  We definitely got it going in the right direction.