Repairing Our Deck
🧹Cleaning, Resurfacing, And Painting🖌 Our deck was worn out, weathered, and starting to rot in some places, so sometime in 2019, we decided we were going to repair it. We first replaced any boards that were too rotted to use, with extra deck boards we had on hand, and scraped out the cracks between boards. Then we powerwashed the entire thing to clean it and removed any other debris with a leaf blower and vacuum. There was still old paint on the boards, so we sanded it, brushed a paint stripper on, and powerwashed again. We repeated that at least twice before beginning to fill any substantial cracks and pits with a paste filler. Then we painted a a sealant before it snowed. Last summer we powerwashed again and started sanding. After sanding everything a few times, we powerwashed one last time and were then able to begin painting. We picked a dark gray for the railings, and a light gray for the deck boards. Using both brushes and rollers, we painted everything with several layers and