Take a good look at your furniture and decide if painting or staining is even worth it. Look and feel for soft or rotted ...

If you want to stop your outdoor wood furniture from succumbing to rot, follow these expert tips. Your wooden chairs and ...

Dear Thomas: With proper preparation and application techniques, the paint should not peel for at least twice that long and probably longer. The quality of the paint has some impact on it, but even ...

Paint and wood don’t play well together because wood has a propensity to expand and contract when it gets wet and then dries. Most paints can’t take this back-and-forth motion and eventually crack and ...

With temperatures dropping and many spending more time inside, it’s important to make sure any outdoor wood will be protected through the cold winter. This means painting and varnishing as well as ...

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