One year ago this month:

This log home had an unknown failing water based finish on it. Since the owner did not want to pay the price for media blasting, we agreed to a chemical strip using Duraprep WB 7-531.

After the dwell time, we started to power wash the home with two crewmen washing opposite sides. Soon thereafter, the owner came out and said his wife was upset that water was intruding into the home (which we had warned him of previously). He asked if we could just stop and put something on to cover the partially stripped home.

We called Mark at The Armstrong Clark Company Plant and asked if their semi-solid might cover the partially stripped water based finish. He told us that as long as their finish was not rained on in a couple of days, it would work.

We sprayed the partially stripped home with 2 coats of A/C Mountain Cedar Semi-Solid allowing the first coat to dry before applying the second coat.

We waited a year, until the annual inspection, to take these photographs because, frankly, we were not sure how the finish would hold up. As you can see it is holding up quite well.

When we strip Behr Acrylic (water based) off decks we have a hard time removing the stain 100% especially on the railings. Our go to stain in these scenarios has been AC Semi-Solids. They look great when covering/blending the Behr and have performed without any issues.