welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I'm going to share a little bit of a tip on spraying water
treatment or water guard this is the Olympic brand I get this or the Thompsons whatever's
on sale I find it's a great product and what I do is I put it in my little sprayer here and I
spray my pressure-treated wood now what I'm going to do today is carry on from what I promised I
would do is show you how I actually apply this and this is a big difference between trying to
use a brush especially on a fence like I built and if you haven't seen this video I'll put the
link down below to the fence I'm going to show you the fence here it's all complete now and you have
to wait certain amount of time for the wood to all dry out and everything but I do my decks I
do everything like this now on my decks I got a bigger pump sprayer you know like a weed sprayer
and you know it's got like a long wand and I just spray it on let it sit leave it alone and let it
soak in I've tried doing with the brush you know what you can save yourself a lot of money doing
it with the brush but you know this is like 16 dollars a gallon and I don't have time to
spend for hours and hours and hours with a brush brushing it on and it doesn't seem to soak in as
good so I'll show you what I'm gonna do here and how this actually works I'll just show it on the
gate part and I have added some features to the to the gate since last time I built it I mentioned I
had to change the hardware because you got to get the right hardware alright so let's go take a look
right now so here we are here here's the gate now I'll show you on the inside as well but you could
see all the sliders now how are you gonna handle that with a brush right so what I'll do is I'll
do the front of the door here I'll open it up up against the garage like I said before this
here will be all replaced on this side anyways this year hopefully solve let's let's go in the
backyard here and I'll I'll show you some of the features that I've done since then well of course
I changed all the hardware to carriage bolts because you know what if you try and put screws
in there and they're not the right size forget it so another thing I've done is I've added a strip
along the bottom here because the way thought well maybe a skunk a small one could get underneath
there so I did add a strip there compared to the last time so nothing can get underneath there now
and for years I've never seen this tile of gate before yeah it's got these these type of latches
here you know and over here and you can just lift the whole gate off and move it out of the way so
for this one here I'll take the whole gate off and I'll put it up against the garage to spray it but
for now I'm gonna show you the difference between spraying and using a brush now what I would
recommend is you got to be careful when you're spraying this stuff whatever's in the background
or whatever so I mean you would just put up a plastic tarp and behind if it was something that
you had to protect right like flowers or anything that you're not supposed to spray so you got to
read the container and make sure you know what you're doing so but let's get to it and I'll show
you how this is done okay so here we go I got the pump sprayer you have to make sure that you adjust
your nozzle at the end there so fans out into a nice spray I'll show you the me just doing the top
part here first then we move on to the lattice and I'll show you how good it actually works
now you could see there that it's it's dripping and that kind of stuff but don't worry about that
there's nothing here that I can get damaged or that kind of thing I'll give you a little bit of
a close-up on the lattice and show you how fast you can actually do a gate like this or even a
fence or that kind of stuff rather than going with your brush the brush takes forever so let's take
a look at the lattice and see how easy it is to spray so here we go right here okay tell me how
simple that is I mean it doesn't get any easier than that and how much am i using for this whole
gate here well about this much probably about a quart to do both sides you ready I was looking
at the watch and it's exactly 15 minutes let's go take a look okay so there we are right there it's
been 15 minutes and if you can look down there yeah there's a little bit of drips there still
on the bottom but if you take a look here like I mean I sprayed the handle I sprayed everything
and I'm still in the shade but can you tell the difference how this is darkened rate up there's
no drips or residue or you know that kind of stuff you know you don't have to brush it in
or anything so if we stand back here and take a look can you tell the difference between this
panel that's done and not one we'll go around the backside and I'll show you the backside of it and
see what it looks like as well well there's the residue that's left on the Grad and a little bit
down here and that will all disappear within the hour when it dries out so here is the backside of
it here that hasn't been treated and you don't see like all kinds of residue or anything like
that so I mean it does a terrific job you know getting in all these cracks so I mean I can do
the whole gate in a couple of minutes just leave it and that's it so what'd you guys think well
you guys let me know and comments below whether you've been using this for many years or whether
you've gone with an old-fashioned brush and tried to actually treat your raw pressure-treated wood
now how long do I go in between spraying my pressure-treated wood in the past when I used
a brush many years ago every second year I'd have to treat it this way I'm telling you it's
about four or five years before I notice that the waters not beating up on it anymore and I'll redo
it again but I can do all that fencing that I've done for maybe 15 minutes of your time
that's it it is so fast and it is so easy just protect the stuff around you that you should
be protecting with some drop sheets and some plastic I would say but yeah you guys let me
know what you think about this idea I've been doing it for years and years and I also do my
trailer I do my utility trailer I built myself a homemade utility trailer and it takes me not
even two minutes just to and that's it it's done let it sit there let it soak in now on
my trailer you gotta be careful in the beginning because it's a little bit slippery but I mean you
know you're not climbing up fences right so I'm gonna have to worry about slippery on the fences
so thanks for joining me here today and like I said I'll put that link down below if you want
to see how I built that fence and it's uh it's quite unique a lot of people maybe don't think
about having a lift-off fence to put in their backyard but you know many times yeah you got an
ATV or a boat or something you want to put in your backyard use guys take care come back again Cheers