A good covered deck with a big backyard behind it, sitting bare and weathered because nobody ever went out there. We stained it, hung new curtains, and it turned into the best seat in the house. Tap either still to see it full size.
The two stills are the before, shot from either corner. Bare lumber gone gray and dry at the surface, with the floor boards starting to check. Nothing rotten. Just neglected, the way a deck gets when it is easier to look at the yard through the window than to go out and sit in it.
The clip is the same deck after we stained it, filmed after dark once it was furnished and lit. It went from a place nobody went to the best seat in the house for the summer and most of the fall.
Deck staining is exterior painting's close cousin, and the same rule holds: most of the job is what happens before the stain comes out.
The wood gets cleaned first. Dirt, pollen and that gray film on weathered boards all keep stain from soaking in, and anything left sitting on the surface is what peels later. Then it has to dry all the way through, which in a Tennessee summer is not the same afternoon. Raised nails get set, rough spots get knocked down, and only then does stain go on. Floor boards, rail caps and every baluster, brushed into the gaps so the sides of the boards are covered and not just the tops.
The roof is a real advantage on this one. It keeps most of the sun and rain off the floor, so the stain here will outlast the same job on an open deck in full sun. The open side still takes weather, and that is the part to keep an eye on.
We also hung new curtains along the covered end. Small thing, but they are a lot of why the deck feels like an outdoor room now and not a platform.
A covered deck that sits unused usually has nothing wrong with it. It just looks unfinished, so nobody goes out there. Stain is what makes bare lumber look like part of the house instead of something the builder forgot to finish.
We stain decks, fences and covered porches across Antioch and the rest of Davidson County out of our shop in Murfreesboro. If yours has gone gray, the deck staining page has the details on how we do it.
We have worked in Antioch inside the house too. Our Antioch interior repaint took a whole home from purple and green walls to white.
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