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Do you guys use skimmer socks? Are they recommended? Do they actually prolong the life of your filter? It seems like they’d work but I’ve only just discovered these and haven’t bought any yet. Thought I’d ask here first. Thanks.

Wow thanks for this info. Your results look amazing. I will look into this a bit more.

I find my pool often dips to 7.0 or 7.2 in the mornings. I only run my pump during the day and if I aerate using the jets it rises to about 7.4 or so by the afternoon.

Getting there. It def looks better than the stain.

Ha ha I wish. The deck is big. I am about 1/3 of the way through! 🙂

Yea that’s right it is pressure treated spruce. This is good info thanks. I am coming around to the realization that a pressure wash and sanding every couple years is prob the way to go on this deck.

I’ve been using a hand held orbital sander when I have a spare hour. Doing a bit at a time. The results are pretty clean so far actually. I don’t think I’ll need to use a stripper. It’s slow going, but not to bad, especially on the part of the deck that is only a few years old.kind of a crappy...

That’s a good idea.

So I started to research a bit more into this whole staining business and I noticed that Behr (and prob most other brands that do stains) also make what they call a wood penetrating oil. You can get it tinted as well. So I think maybe you are on to something with the wood oils. Anyway, they are...

@Pauls234 thanks for the reply. This is helpful and very timely. I had considered trying the stripper actually but for some reason I decided in my mind that it wouldn’t work. I think I may just give it a go, and then sand whatever is left over. As far as what to do with new staining afterwards...

Yea I kinda got a weird situation. Part of the deck closer to the house out to about 12 feet is older. In fact that portion is now 12 years old pressure treated spruce. Beyond 12 feet up to the pool and then the areas at the ends of the pool were built when the pool was put in (August of 2019)...

Ok thanks. I don’t mind having to do a light sanding and pressure wash every year or two but I can’t get my head around staining this thing once every three years.

Thanks I feel like this is what I wanted to hear. I think it’s prob easiest. Half the deck is about 10 years older then some of the newer stuff directly around the pool. When it was built we had it integrated into the existing part closer to the house. I have seen some of the trex stuff and it...