Deck Maintenance & Care

Summer is the paradox season for an Austin deck: it is the stretch the whole structure exists for — the […]

Composite ownership reduces deck care to essentially one skill, so it is worth doing that one skill properly: this is

Every Austin deck under a live oak lives inside a bargain, and spring is when the bill arrives. The canopy

Every trade has one test that outperforms all its instruments, and for deck finishes it is a cup of water

Composite decking retired the worst chore in deck ownership, and its marketing has spent years rounding that up to retiring

Here is a truth the stain aisle never mentions: most failed stain jobs failed before the can was opened. The

Spring cleaning is a suggestion in most cities. In Austin it is scheduled by the trees. When the live oaks

Here is the short answer before the long one: for most Austin decks, a penetrating stain is the right call,

An Austin deck needs four things a year: a spring structural walk, summer shade and cleaning discipline, a fall finish

A deck announces when its finish is done working — the trouble is that it announces it quietly, in a