To help you properly stain your newly built outdoor structure we ve come up with 10 tips to help you stain your cedar and to keep it looking new for years to come.
Can you stain red cedar fence.
How to stain western red cedar.
When selecting a stain for cedar choose one that s oil.
Staining a new fence can help preserve its look and once an older fence has been cleaned stain can help bring back its natural beauty.
You can even the tone of wood in seconds.
Used for shingles trim house siding decking fences hot tubs and gates cedar is cheap widely available highly versatile easy to fabricate and best of all it weathers exceptionally well.
We recommend 100 acrylic latex topcoats over an alkyd.
It gets absorbed by the wood and then becomes a great base to which the topcoat of solid stain or paint will adhere.
When it comes to solid body finishes paints and solid stain for siding and trim boards we recommend an alkyd oil stain blocking primer.
If you plan on using a spraying machine to stain the cedar fence you will use more stain in the spraying process.
A lot of times multiple woods are employed in creating a fence and it can cause non uniformity of colour but with a proper stain the problem can be fixed in minutes.
Take into account how many coats of stain you need to apply and whether you ll be staining the back of the fence as well.
Read the label on the can to determine how much surface area the product will cover.