Seabright Area of Santa Cruz County, Summer 2015, New Wood, Beautiful Transparent Colors on this custom fence/privacy wall.  Call Today.

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Beach House LIve Oak.  Cedar Shingles.  Four Year Maintenance Plan.  East Facing Side.

The client called and referred to his newly found backyard area as Crip.  “Yeah I just had this new crip area built in the backyard and was wondering if your company could come out and give us a bid for having the privacy wall stained?”

These are kiln dried cedar boards.  We used a clear tone to maintain the “current” color of the wood.  It turned out pretty crip…

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Custom Outdoor Transparent Staining

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The left side of the garage(your right) has finally been re-stained after going six complete seasons without any new application.  The right side of the garage(your left) is what it looked like prior.  The set of garage doors gets plenty of morning sun.  It is located within a mile from the beach near Capitola, CA.

This is a pretty neat shot.  This is mid-day in the summer time.  This is three parts Cedar Tone, one part Redwood Tone, and one part Natural Tone.  Biowash Natural Deck Oil of course.  From ground level, this is looking straight up on a pitched two-story home.  This stain is dry, but not cured.  I like this shot because it really showcases that every single shingle is a different color.  The light shingles will remain light, and the dark shingles will remain dark.

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The shingles on the left side of the picture have been washed and stained.  The shingles on the right have only been washed.    Great example of what the natural tone looks like once dry.  As is always the case, the material is Biowash Natural Deck Oil.  These shingles are fifteen years old.  North facing side of the house.

22 year old Cedar Shingles.  

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Wolfe Estates Custom Wood Home near West End of Donner Lake.

New Build.  Summer 2011.

August 2012                                                                    June 2013

The inside story about this 5000 s/f custom home in the Wolfe Estates area of Donner Lake, CA, is that the builder of the home supposedly put on 80 gallons of water based transparent stain prior to it being constructed.  Knowing what I now know about the complexities of the ladder work that it takes to efficiently apply stain to this home, staining it prior to being built seemed like a rather smart idea.  So when the client told me that she was pretty sure that there was no stain left on the siding and that she was sure that it needed it re-application, my initial hunches were that either A.  The person(s) applying the supposed 80 gallons of transparent stain at $40 per gallon forgot to stir the material, or B.  The transparent material was applied in too cold of an environment.  Supposedly, the wood had been kiln dried, or that certainly would have contributed to  product failure.  I was called to this home in late June 2012, and she was right.  It was as dry as a popcorn fart.  I was able to reapply 70 gallons.  The builder was still around doing odds and ends during the time that I was beginning this process.  Even he said that it never looked the way I made it look, and was happy that his construction was being buckled up prior to the upcoming winter.

Big Job Summer 2012.  Grover Lane HOA, West Side Santa Cruz.

Six Attached, Three-Story Townhomes w/ Garage

120 gallons Biowash Natural Deck Oil

Original Siding from 1975

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Remodeled Beach House in Capitola

Original redwood siding from back in the good old days.  Probably why it is taking to a darker tone so well.

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Ten Years of Protection

I’ve made mention time and time again how each side of your shingle home or wood sided home will wear and age differently.  If you’re going to commit to a quality transparent, there is probably going to be a side or two of your home that you, or i, will want to maintain annually, or semi, or whatever.  It’s also possible that a side or two of your home can maybe go five to seven years on one good coat.  Just Depends!!  The more hot sun, the more sunscreen.  The more exposure to harsh conditions like storms off the ocean, the more protection.

These shingles in Santa Cruz, CA were stained when the home was built about seven years ago, but nothing since.  These pictures are shot on a rainy day.  I swatch washed two spots, and put Biowash Natural Deck Oil(nat tone) on the top square.  The bottom square has no stain.(just washed)  Anyway..15 gallons later, this home turned out real nice..