What deck sealer should I use?
 

I built a new deck with pergola last summer. Power washed this week and am looking to seal it now.

What is the best sealer out there in your opinion?

I am looking for a clear sealer.

It faces the south with no shade from nearby trees...hence the pergola. It gets beat by the summer sun.

Cabot is the best. Clear looks great but you will be refinishing at least every other year if you want it to stay looking good. I am in the middle of re building my whole deck and am using composite. I am done with all the work wood requires.

Phobia should know

Benjamin Moore is the best ive found.

Cabot hands down is the best I've ever used.

B. Moore soacks in and seals it unlike many that have a wax base like Thompsons Waterseal. That stuff wears off in a few months of hot summer sun.

I have never used Cabot I will have to give it a look see and see what the ingredients are.

My wife and I have sanded and refinished our 12' x 12' deck 2 or 3 times now after having it power washed. I'll ask her when she gets home which 2 brands we used. Junk whatever they were and promised.
Pretty sure one was Thompsons.

Both lasted one rainy season. Of course we live in a 3 month rainforest but when you spend more $$ to buy a guarantee for something to last x amout of time, only thing to hope for is luck I guess? And we didn't get lucky.

When the better half gets home tonight I'll ask and post then. :thumb: ;)

Pretty much anything not called Thompson's Water Seal.

Use the shit they put on wooden telephone poles. That seems to last ten plus years.

The picture of Seal scared me.

CP members homemade version out of their seed

Bags of semen dude . Bags of semen .

TWP or Cabot, and to a lesser extent Olympic I've had decent luck with.