Hoo boy. Wants inside as well as outside done. Wants to have it cleaned to be able to re stain. It’s looking pretty dang rough to me 
Looks like $$$ to me. Strong roof mix, add a little hydroxide if you have, let dwell about 10-15min - Go along with m5 nozzle and knock off loose moss/dead moss on horizontals, then Breakout the 4’ wand with white tip and let er rip. 12-18" 0ff board, up and down on each board. 90-120min on the inside shown. Charge accordingly. I’d be at $2/ L/F here for side shown.
What do you do for furring? Or do you not run in to that? Seems like every time I do a fence we run into furring.
Can’t get much more furry than it is now…
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ROFLOL, amen to that.
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Don’t worry about it. If it’s a fence absolutely no one cares. See few posts above. Furring will lay down in a week or so anyway. The only time you need to even think about furring is on a deck, especially handrails.
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Oh, interesting! Honestly, I just haven’t even pursued them largely for this reason.
Sounds like I need to put them on quotes moving forward.
Just to piggy back on this, no furring on log cabins either. It will be very visible and will look bad.
Rick, do you paint over furring? When I say paint I mean any film forming coating. I hate paint, but I already bid out two deck jobs that the customer wants painted. Just curious on fences, I don’t get fence jobs the locals will let them rot and replace.
The nice thing about using a solid acrylic is that you don’t have to worry about it going airborne and getting over everything. And much less taping (if you’re spraying like me). And if the deck has been halfway maintained over the years, two coats of a solid acrylic can make the deck look very sharp.
What solid acrylic are you using?
Me no paint, ever. Well I do use a spray can to touch up my trailer and wrought iron fence occasionally. Not sure how that would work on a deck, lol.
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I do like the fact that paints are better than oils when spraying. Having said that, I use whatever the customers want, but I tend to push them towards SW simply because of price and availability. I don’t want to have to go into lowes/hd to get paint ever, they are too slow and half of them are about a 40w bulb. They only know what to say based off of what they were told to say by a vendor.
So, when you spray (paint) do you spray over furring? I have never had good results painting over furring, it just looks rough.
Are you using the 9600 series from SW?
No, we wouldn’t spray over furring. All my contracts say we sand as needed. And we mean it. We’ve had very large decks where we’ve spent hours and hours sanding. Of course, we only sand the areas that need it. And we always sand the handrails regardless. And we back brush the horizontal surfaces since we’re spraying.
Also, it’s probably a minor point, but there is a difference between stain and paint. If you’ve ever encountered a deck that’s been truly painted with normal paint, it’s a nightmare especially if the prep was horrible. But stain is made to breathe and flex more than paint. (And the solid acrylic deck/fence cans say “stain” on them to distinguish them from paint.)
But it’s also way to set yourself apart when the homeowner says, “I want paint.” You can explain the differences, explain why stain is better, etc.
I know many aren’t fans of SW but having a good relationship with my stain rep has saved me thousands of dollars. They want you to succeed for when you succeed, their profit goes up.
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