Best Deck Stain for the Job

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What is the best way to stain your deck? For that matter, what is the best way to stain your fence, or any other type of landscaping wood around the outside perimeters of your home? Spring is near and now is the time to start dreading, err..thinking...or even fantasizing about these great, outdoor home improvement things we can do to improve the appearance of our home's outdoor surroundings.

Last summer, I showed you how easy it was to make an old fence and wood ties look like new with an Electric Pressure Washer. Really, staining a deck is simply the 2nd part of a bigger picture: That is, restoring wood and making it look rich, colorful and as beautiful as it is supposed to be. The pressure washer strips the dirt, mold and rot from your old fence and deck to make it look like clean, new and fresh wood. A quality Wood Stain product, along with a sprayer, will not only protect and preserve your wood fence or deck, but will actually make it look quite attractive. Cabot Decking Stain is a top notch Wood Deck Stain Product. The video below will take you through the entire process of restoring your deck and making it look sensational this spring and summer. I think what impressed me most with this video was how easy it makes it all look. Below, are some good Deck Stains at reasonable pricing and the training video on Staining your Deck can be found at the very bottom: Read the rest of this entry

Genie Garage Door Openers have been around since ... forever.

Genie Promax Garage Door Opener

Well, okay, that’s not quite true. Genie built their very first garage door opener in 1954. Formerly, known as the Alliance Manufacturing Company and founded in 1923, Genie used to build military products while America was at war. Alliance Manufacturing Company built things like voltage regulators, canteen handles and generators. After building their first garage door opener in 1954, Genie quickly became one of the innovators in the garage door opening industry. I recently replaced a Genie garage door opener in my home. Not because it conked out, but because it lasted so long that it lacked some of the modern innovations of electric garage door openers that were 10-15 years old! This is one of the reasons I was sold on Genie Garage Door Openers. But, there's a little more to the story...

Genie Garage Door Opener Parts

I moved into my home three years ago, so I inherited the Genie Garage Door Opener that came with the double-sided door of my three-car garage. I also inherited the newer, Stanley Garage Door Opener for my single-car garage door. Because the Stanley garage door opener is newer, it included the more modern, garage door sensors safety feature. My Genie opener had held up well, but it lacked the safety of the garage door sensors on the sides to prevent the dangerously heavy door from closing on objects, animals or people that might get in the way. My house was built in 1989, so I suspect this was the original Genie garage door opener that came with the house. So, when the garage door torsion spring broke on the right side of my single-car, garage door, I decided to get a new Genie for my double door while I was getting the garage door spring replacement on the opposite side. Knowing this current Genie lasted 16-years, I’m a believer in the quality of Genie garage door opener parts Why not go with another Genie product – but this time - with the safety of those mandatory garage door sensors? Read the rest of this entry

Ridgid Shop Vac

Shop Vac Review

Ridgid Shop Vac

In the last 20 years I have owned three different shop-vacs. They've all been pretty good at cleaning up big messes, but the Ridgid Shop Vac beats them all. I bought the 12 Gallon WD12460 model, and after owning it a few months, I would never consider saving $30 on a smaller, cheaper model. The size, power and durability of the Ridgid is well worth the extra cost. Read the rest of this entry

Good Performance, but Cheaply Made

A month ago I reviewed the Task Force 2000 Electric Pressure Washer. I was so caught up with how useful and powerful an electric power washer can be, that I didn’t give much consideration to its build quality and durability. The Task Force Electric Pressure Washer is proving to be less than sturdy. In less than a month, the power washer now fails to dispense detergent.

and has a broken cord reel. Read the rest of this entry

Before and After using Behr 992 to Strip Driveway Paint

Driveway Picture

To the right, is a picture of my driveway after using Behr 992 Paint Stripper. To the right, is also exactly how my driveway looked before using Behr 992 Paint Stripper. As fast as my cement driveway Behr 800 Stain was peeling, I was just certain that all my driveway needed was a little paint remover to help it along. I figured that the Behr 992 paint stripper should have no probablem removing the shoddy Behr Stain Job I did last fall. Read the rest of this entry