Or it does… but it’s not with the kind of payoff you’d like to receive…
Started sanding the porch after all the posts were up and wow… it sure doesn’t pay to put off until tomorrow what you can do today.The majority of the porch, most of which sits underneath a fairly large roof, was easy enough to sand as it hadn’t seen too much sun, wind, rain, sleet, snow, or other forms of weathering. It took about three hours to sand about 400 square feet of the porch. Unfortunately for me, the last 130 square feet, which saw all the weather it wanted and more, took about eight hours all by itself. First with a 60 grit disk on my orbital sander and then a second run with 100 grit. It was a sweaty, massively difficult project that beat the $%&# out of my knees and burned through about $30 worth of orbital sanding disks.
After the sanding I attempted to power wash away some of the crud that had accumulated in between the decking, which, unfortunately, was a big mistake. The power washer left streaking on the deck which then required me to make one last pass over the porch with the 100 grit disks.
Once the final sanding was completed I saturated the deck with Penofin in a Redwood flavor and after a half-hour, wiped the excess off.
What resulted from the redwood Penofin on mahogany decking was a very yummy, deep purple-ish color that would almost make think that the porch was purple heart. Really beautiful!
Now what remains is to find a Penofin color we like for the posts. (The redwood makes the doug fir of the posts look too orange.) Then it’s off to trim the posts and put up the cedar ceiling.