What Brand Wood Deck Stain / Sealer for Old Wood?

[asphaltgambler]

My deck wood is on its last leg but saveable. I've already removed the old vertical / decorative railing between the posts, will replace with stainless steel horizontal cabling to modernize it.

Unfortunately, the wood was never properly cared for, never stained. I'm currently fixing loose joints and posts, and will sand everything to prep for stain / sealer.

I really want this part to be 1-step, stain and sealer. What say the PPOT Braintrust?
Note: I live in Northern Va, gets hot in the summer with high humidity, and cold as crap in the winter...........

[908/930]

No advice on sealer, but consider washing with a wood brightener first, or Borax mixture to clean properly if you want to keep the wood colour light.

[look 171]

Wood color retain? Penofin. I would paint it and there are these deck paint that has a texture and it goes on thick. Feels a bit like anti-skid texture. Plenty of protection. I use them on my wooden stairs on my rentals. Seems to hold up so far over the past couple years. Not the prettiest thing to look at but it does it job.

[p911dad]

I use a Sherwin Williams deck paint, gray-green color. The 20 year old yellow pine boards (treated originally) are still mostly very good. My painter brought it years ago to do the front porch. It comes in 5 gallon buckets from the actual S-W paint store, not a big box. He told me stain looks good to begin with but the climate down here is a killer for stain on decks. I use it for touch-ups.

[Zeke]

1 step can be a short cut. Even the excellent Penofin look mentioned deserves a 2nd coat. In CA we can't get good stain so no recent experience. Past experience with semi and solid colors using Cabot has been excellent.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Zeke

1 step can be a short cut. Even the excellent Penofin look mentioned deserves a 2nd coat. In CA we can't get good stain so no recent experience. Past experience with semi and solid colors using Cabot has been excellent.

The Penofin formula is different between the qt size and the gallon just a short 7-8 years ago. Now, I think they are all crap in CA. Still, I just stained my IPE deck with it. Its started to gray and dry. Will need a third coat. I seal all the ends with Anchorseal. I am so temped to melt paraffin was and dab it on there to seal up the ends

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by look 171

The Penofin formula is different between the qt size and the gallon just a short 7-8 years ago. Now, I think they are all crap in CA. Still, I just stained my IPE deck with it. Its started to gray and dry. Will need a third coat. I seal all the ends with Anchorseal. I am so temped to melt paraffin was and dab it on there to seal up the ends

So instead of a trunk full of Coors, we should be bootlegging Penofin into the fine state of CA?

Whatever flavor we get in NM, it works for us. Ours is a newer-build and boring pink/preserved pine and it's not (yet) rotten. Perhaps some of that marine restorative epoxy-ish would work? It'd be likely very expensive though.