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The winners are:
#44: Andrea
#7: Shari
#50: MJ at 517 Creations
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Flood Wood Care for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
It’s amazing all the opportunities I have gotten to help spruce up my house and it couldn’t come at a better time. There are so many areas that need it and the new back stairs are one of those things that need attention. Lots of things around the house need doing. So, when this one came along, to try out Flood® Wood Care products at my new house, of course I said yes!
Those naked back stairs will get some much needed color and protection a the same time. They were just yelling for something to cover them.
In all their naked glory.
The Flood® OneCoat Waterproofing Finish product is also available and very easy to use for any exterior wood. If you have worn wood that needs cleaning first, all you need to do is use the Flood Wood Finish Remover and/or Flood Cleaner/Brightener Concentrate to prep your wood for coverage. The great thing with the One Coat product is that you can do it all in the same day. Great for use on decks, fences, playsets, or any outdoor furniture.
I opted to use Advanced Solid Stain for my project to cover, protect and make my stairs pretty too. Solid Stain comes in many colors that can be mixed at the paint counter and one of these colors matched my house nearly perfect. These stairs will get a lot of use once I move in.
I was very fortunate to get these stairs built. There were none at all and the bank that owned the property before we bought it had a handyman build front stairs and back stairs. So, I’m happy to have stairs at all.
I chose a color very similar to the blue-gray of the house and it ended up being almost a perfect match. One thing about choosing stain, I’ve noticed that it tends to be lighter than the chip shows. I think that must be because of the sun and how bright it is outside. I could have gone a shade darker, but this color looks nice with the house and is almost a dead-on match.
See the new color? Looks so much better than the naked stairs did.
Now they are protected too. You are supposed to wait a few months before staining new pressure treated wood and I’m not sure how long these have been here, but at least since February or March, so I think I’m safe staining them. I have always loved staining bare wood outside, it just makes it so much prettier to me. You don’t have to stain pressure treated wood, but to me it looks a whole lot better.
The Flood Solid Stain was very easy to work with and I would definitely use it again. You can find this product at The Home Depot. I only did one coat, but may go back later and do another one. I really liked the consistency and coverage of the stain. Using a small foam roller and a paintbrush, it only took me a little over an hour to do this staining project.
One more project to check off my long list! That feels good.
Flood has a Summer Take it Easy Sweepstakes going on and all you have to do is sign up with your name and address at the Flood® Sweepstakes page. If you win the sweepstakes, Flood will provide all the stain PLUS labor to prep and stain your deck! Now that is a win-win for you.
Also, I’d love to share my coupons with 3 of my readers. All you have to do is leave a comment telling me what you have at your house that needs staining. I’ll send you a coupon for a FREE gallon of Flood One Coat Waterproofing Finish to try for yourself. It’s available in 6 colors.
That’s it! Leave a comment answering the question and I’ll choose 3 winners for FREE gallons courtesy of Flood.
Great giveaway !! My patio / deck needs painting !!
Thanks !! Karen
I’d love to win it for my grapevine trellis.
My deck needs painting really bad.
I really need to stain my deck! It looks terrible, and I have been putting off buying the stain.
Rhoda, I have a naked deck that is on my to-do list this summer! I would love to try this new product.
I would love to win for a few arbors I have in my yard. Always love trying what’s new out there. Thanks
Oh I would love, love to stain my covered front porch! It’s just plain wood now, but I love the look of a good old Southern porch!
We have a fairly new and pretty back deck, but I think it would be fun to stain the railings for some interest 🙂
Rhoda,
I love the stai! I can’t believe how great it covered! I am currently in need of power washing and staining my backyard deck.
Rhoda,
I would love to paint our two back decks. We built them last year, waited a few months, stained them and then after winter, they are all weathered and stripped in some places. They have to be stripped and redone already.
The stairs looks amazing! My daughter’s house that we are helping
renovate back to normalcy (due to former husband) has an outside entry way I think this would be super to facelift improve!
Thanks,
Patti
Rhoda,
I need to power wash and restain my back decks. We built them last year and the stain just washed away over winter. Very disappointing after spending so much money on the stain we used. So the coupons would be great so we could get it redone!
My deck! Thanks for the opportunity…
I’d stain the bench that sits in my little garden and also the trellis that supports our clematis.
My husband pressure washed our deck this weekend so it needs to be stained/protected now.
We live in Colorado and it’s tornado season here. We just had a twister that brought a ton of hail with it that really beat up the decking on my front porch. I would love to win a gallon of Flood to help me fix my front porch.
My new fence will need staining soon! <3 your blog!
Funny that this offer should come up as my deck needs staining this summer. Thanks for the giveaway.
Yes, Yes, YES! This opportunity could not have come along at a better time!! WE are just this week waiting for the weather to clear so that the builders can come and extend our deck and cover part of it! I would love to have it stained before the cool fall weather; by then the wood should be ready to stain! I am so excited to learn about the Flood Stain opportunity. Thank you.
Rhoda, your back stairs look great!
My back deck! Hubby just finished pressure washing about a week ago and now it needs some coverage.
Thanks for the giveaway!