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Jan 24, 2024
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Well in this video I want to introduce you to a new version of a product that I've been using for about 12 years now or so
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It's an exterior wood finish. You only have to put it on once
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It's called Eco Wood Treatment. That's the name of the product I've usually been using
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And this latest version is kind of just like that, except with an added twist
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And the added twist is that it comes with a kind of a dye, so a color
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Now, I need to tell you a bit about this stuff. This is a powder that you mix with water
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And when you mix it with water, as you're going to see in a minute, it looks kind of like weak tea
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And you put it on bare wood. and by chemical reaction, it weatheres the wood nice and evenly
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So it's a superior way to deal with wood that you don't want to finish all the time
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And unlike regular natural weathering, it's even. So you don't have areas that are heavily worn, heavily weathered
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and then maybe say if you're dealing with a shed, the area under the roof is not weathered
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and you get this difference in look, and it looks pretty ratty. So the conventional old-time ecowood treatment is just this chemical reaction stuff
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And it unfolds over a period of weeks or months, really, to get the full color
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And you can see what that looks like here. This shed was, I treated it a number of years ago, and this is its sort of static color
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Now this is the final product. And I like it a lot
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As I said, I've used it for more than a decade now, and I'm really happy with it
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But this latest version does the same thing, so it's got the same kind of powder that we're going to dissolve in water, except it's got this stain
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In this case this bottle is black and you mix it with water And I guess it offers two benefits First of all you get the color right away instead of having to wait some time and the color is different than what you have with normal
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weathering. In this case, it's black. There's other colors too. So I'm going to mix them up. I'm
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going to show how it all works and then we're going to apply it to this white cedar here. I've got
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one side, they're planed and sanded. The other side is rough. We're going to try some of it on both
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and you can see what it looks like when we're all done. Now, before I go on, I want to show you a little trick
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So this envelope of stuff and this bottle of dye is designed to make up five U.S. gallons
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which is about 18.5 liters. So we need to start with the right amount of water
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and the easy way to do that is what I did here. Now, this is a pail that I've had around
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and it's 23 liters. That's the capacity of the pale up to the top
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So I need 18.5. So how do I find out how high to put the water
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Without having to measure it with buckets and stuff like that. Well, here's what I do
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It's 17 inches to the top of the bucket. So 17 inches equals 23 liters
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How many inches do we need for 18.5 liters? Well, 18.5 divided 1.5
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by 23 is approximately 80%. So we multiply 17 by 80%, and we get about 13 and a half inches
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of water height. So that's a fast way of determining the volume of something. And it's not a
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critical volume. I mean, if it's 100 milliliters either way, it's not really going to matter much
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But I've got 18 and a half liters in this bucket now. And I'm going to dissolve
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this powder in. As I said, this powder is the traditional product. This powder and this powder only
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You can see it there It completely non It doesn smell And it quite pleasant to use In fact since it not really a wood finish in the usual sense
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in that it forms a film, it's extremely forgiving when it comes to applying it
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All you have to do is wet the surface with this stuff
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There's no business of worrying about brush strokes or drips or anything like that
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It's just like you're wetting it with water essentially. And then the chemical reaction
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the chemical reaction starts from there. It goes faster or slower depending on how wet
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the wood becomes from rain and things afterwards. But I've generally found that it takes maybe
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a couple of months for the full color to emerge. Now I could use this product just as it is now
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This is what it looks like when the powder is dissolved and that would give the kind of results
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you've seen previously in this video but we're going to go for the for the
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diversion black in this case there's a number of colors I have tested this
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stuff before to the the color generally lasts for about four or five years and then
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you're basically back to the conventional evenly weather look. And if you want to re-establish that color again, then you just, you can repeat the process
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It's quite easy. But you don't have to. This is kind of a one-shot deal if you want it to be
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And that's the way I use it mostly. Just get the stuff on and then enjoy the results. So I'll
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stir this for a few more minutes. And just because we're using relatively small test boards here
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I'm going to use a paint brush to put this on. But in practice, if I was doing something bigger like the shed you saw or picnic table or anything
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I would put it into a pump-up weed sprayer, and I would just spray it around
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It's super fast. And like I said, it's not critical. There no runs or drips or hazards like that that happens Let just stir this for a while and come back in a minute and I put some along with a brush So just before I start putting this stuff on I want to point out how much a package makes I mean that quite a bit of product there
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And it does go a long way. So it's fairly economical as well as working very well. But let's see what it looks like
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It's completely non-critical here as far as getting it on. Just got to slosh it on
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And it's going to soak in and dry and look kind of different than it does now
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But it's a fast and very easy way of making your outdoor wood look good
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It's actually a fair amount of work to keep wood finished. with a kind of outdoors with a varnish or something like that because it tends to
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need refinishing a lot but not this stuff because there's no film forming there's
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nothing to peel and it works just as well on rough as it does on the smooth
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takes a little bit more working to get it in this is fairly rough cedar here
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There you have it. So let's just let this dry for a while
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And we'll come back and take a look at how it turns out
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Well there you have it. It's been a few hours since this has been drying
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And this is essentially what this piece of wood's going to look like for the next number
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of years. There's nothing to peel. The black color will very slowly change to a weathered gray
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you know in four or five years if you want to reestablish the black you can do that
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again or you can just live with a nice weathered gray sort of color but that's
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the product and I sure like it a lot and use it on a lot of things around my place
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