Please note the weathered gray-ness of the wood. We assumed that the dark parts would come off and the wood was about the light gray color you see there. Well weren't we surprised when we realized what color the wood really was underneath 5 years of grime.....
Our little George blends right in now! There were a few spots we got a little closer than we should have and we have some sanding to do on a few of the spindles. We were so shocked at the color the wood was when we were done!
I don't have a picture of this part of the deck, but we have a corner that has been taken over by a birds nest, complete with 4 little eggs. We couldn't bring ourselves to try and move the nest and potentially kill the eggs so we washed around the nest and plan to leave them alone until the eggs hatch and the birds are gone. I'll try and remember to get a picture of it tonight at home. I talked to my mom about it, she is convinced my deck will now look shoddy because that one corner will never look right again. I figure its small enough I can put a potted plant in the corner and no one will ever know.....
We ended up going to Home Depot to look for stain color, we plan to let the deck dry today and tonight and then try to start staining it Friday morning. We were disappointed when the man at Home Depot told us we needed to wait a week to let the deck dry out totally before staining! I think we are going to go with a reddish semi-transparent stain so we can at least attempt to see some of the wood through the color. All in all it was a very successful evening, got a little dirty from all the grime flying about though.....
You cant see it to the full extent on the picture, but my legs were COVERED in flecks of grossness. I really do think that it was all worth it with this as our result from this part of the project....
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