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Flood Staining Made Simple and Sweepstakes!

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Flood® Wood Care. All opinions are 100% mine.

I was recently offered an opportunity to review Flood® Wood Care
products and I jumped at the chance! I had a great experience using
Flood to fix up some weather-beaten wood around my house last year, as
you can see on my former gate of embarrassment. It’s held up fantastically through a long and brutal Phoenix summer, so I was thrilled to try out some Flood products again.

Here was my next victim:

In case you can’t tell underneath that fading coat of paint and thick
layer of grubbiness, it’s a picnic table. It’s on my back porch. It’s
disgusting.

Do you want to eat here? No. You do not.

I usually just slap another coat of paint on it every six months or
so, but that doesn’t hold up worth a darn. It gets hit hard with the
afternoon sun and a lot of over-spray from the sprinklers, so it’s
splintered and uneven and pretty much the most unwelcoming place to sit
and eat ever.

I’ve always wanted it to match the bench I stained last
year, which sits on the other end of the porch. But where to start?
You can’t just stain over a painted table, right? Especially one this
gross? Can you?

Enter Flood’s supremely handy Staining Made Simple
guide. No matter what type of project you’re doing, from something
small like my table to a huge deck resurfacing, this guide makes it SO
easy. Just answer a few quick questions about your project, the type and
condition of the wood you’re staining, choose the colors you like, and
whamo! It gives you a list of exactly which products you need, along
with short videos of how to use them, and the closest place to find
them.

These were my recommendations:
Flood Wood Finish Remover and Flood OneCoat Waterproofing Finish.

Here’s what the finish remover does: Removes
latex, oil, semi-transparent and solid stains to prepare wood for a
new finish — Ideal for exterior wood decks, fences, siding
and furniture –Used for changing existing stain color. Ummm, sounds perfect!

Let’s take a look at the results! Just in case your memory has wiped
away the traumatic before picnic table, here it is again:

And now:

This is the opposite end of the first picture, but I swear to you,
it’s the same table! I did have to sand it a bit to get down to the raw
wood; there were a LOT of coats of paint on there. But it was worth
it. I had no idea it could look this good!

For now I’m just planning to keep the benches painted white. It would
be too much trouble to try and remove all the paint from the nooks and
crannies of this thing, and I dig the two-toned look. I’m confident that
the tabletop will hold up SO much better than before, based on my
previous experience with the waterproofing power of Flood OneCoat Waterproofing Finish.

The color I used is called Cedar, which matches the rest of my outdoor
furniture, but Flood offers a great selection of other colors and
wood-tones too.

I am happy to promote Flood
products, they are truly a brand I believe in to restore, protect and
beautify your wood and other surfaces. And right now they are running a Flood Better Backyard Sweepstakes for a chance to win a $1,500 gift card or one of twelve $10 gift cards given away daily!

Just like Flood® Wood Care on Facebook to enter, and share the sweepstakes for more entries! Easy as pie! Sweepstakes ends May 17th, 2013.

Also, follow Flood Wood Care on Twitter for helpful tips about staining and other ways to make the most of your outdoor living space.

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