We have got the deck all prepped up. We've replaced boards. We have put in spindles where
it needed it here. We have screwed it all down and tightened it all up and got it back
in shape as much as possible for a 20 year old deck. The way I do it is I use my airless
with the smallest tip you can get and I start out by spraying the outside of the railing
first. I put up a piece of cardboard to shield the inside and then just go with an extension
on the wand so that you can reach up and down and hit your spindles. So I go from one angle
first to make sure you get up in there. So I spray from one angle and hit the outside
of the spindle and this side of the spindle and then I go back with the cardboard still
in place and shoot the other side of the spindle. Now I use a painting pad, a nine inch painting
pad to do all my work so that it smooths out everything and it works it all in to the surface
of the wood because the old decks can be very porous and it is just like mopping your floor
you just get it going on there and it just squishes it right into the wood. Can you hear
it? Squish, squish. I don't worry too much about the insides of the spindles here because
the spray takes care of that but the outside and the inside of the spindles is really what
I get to work on and the bottom of your rail, the front, and you just work it in with your
pad and also I use the pad on the deck to work the stain in. It is so much easier than
a roller to bring this up and down and get into tight places.
Then with the airless sprayer you can just spray whatever you need wherever you need
it. So you use your airless sprayer and your pad and you might want to load your pad up
and get it saturated. You usually stay close to your work with this airless
and it doesn't have to be perfect. You just put on the product where you need the product
and then you work it in with your pad. Like I said it is so much easier than a roller.
It holds a lot of product and gets right down in the corners, nothing like it. You can even
do two at a time if you feel like it. That's with a nine inch painting pad. These old decks
just get so much abuse from the sun. You have to get the paint worked in there to protect
them. So that is about the size of how I do my railings.