May have to postpone the sealing to next weekend. Home Depot didn't have Cabots, they only had Bher and TWS.

Gonna try Lowes this week.

Sealmax

Try Penofin, google it up.

Sikkens if you can find it

I hope this is legit, I just picked some up at 50% off in OP today.

Assuming that the deck is fully exposed to the weather, seems to me like they all suck. The shitty ones, you need to re-do every year. The "good" ones, you still pretty much have to re-do every year, maybe two.

It's even worse if the deck is mostly in the shade cause that water will get into every crevice and won't dry out normally. Speeds up the wood rot considerably.

Yep.

The next time I do major re-work on my deck, we're putting in composite.

This will be my main summer project. Which brand/type are you going with?

I have learned that the hard way. We have used three five gallon pales of it on the three decks down in Missouri and it disappears in a couple of months. Going to try something better this summer, so this is a good thread.

Creosote

http://www.menards.com/main/exterior...742-c-7956.htm

This is what I've used. Applied it 3 years ago and the deck still repels water and looks great.

SealMax. When it absolutely, positively has to last FOREVER.