HOME & GARDEN
It’s with great pleasure that I have been
asked to write the regular article on ‘Home &
Garden feature in Firestyle.
The first subject I am covering is protecting
your fencing and decking.
When’s a good time to maintain your
fencing and decking? With all wooden
materials like fence panels or slats that
permanently exposed to the elements, it’s
wise to do so at least once or even twice
a year if possible.
When treating your decking planks,
preparation is the key, the more time your
spend on preparing the surfaces. Not only
will they last longer but will look better too.
Start with your Jet power washer, spray
clean all the dirt and moss that may of
grown and clung to the surface, making
sure that you clean between all the
grooves were the dirt often get trapped.
You could even apply a fungal cleaner with
a hard yard brush, to help clear the surface.
Then make sure you rinse the area off
again with your Jet washer.
Leave the surface to dry off as much as
possible, mask up around all the walling
areas were you don’t want the
stain / varnish or treatment to go.
To get the best results when spraying any
surface is to use a Wagner Paint sprayer,
which are very easy to use, and you
don’t have to of had any experience to
be able to use Wagner sprayers. They are
world leaders in developing paint spray
technology.
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Once you have filled up the canister
with your treatment and your ready
to spray, hold the unit around 4 inches
‘100mm’ away from the surface and
start spraying. It’s very important to keep
the unit moving at all times. It maybe
wise for anyone who is using a sprayer for
the first time to try it out and a old piece
of cardboard could be used to the speed
and flow of the paint. There is a paint flow
control dial on the unit to reduce and
increase the paint flow.