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Originally Posted by Bryan A.  Nice. I was trying to avoid the clothesline thing. I have a friend who did the same thing. He special ordered shingles from Maine, 5/4" thick at the bottom! He was building a new house and started the staining process before they laid the foundation.
What type of stain? Any brand loyalty? |
I've been pretty satisfied with all the Sherwin Williams paints/stains and I've used them as much as possible.
Benjamin Moore and lesser known Pratt & Lambert are my back-ups.
About 4 houses back I learned the lesson of using the Borg paints. Behr, although it gets good reports is junk as far as I am concerned. It fades and chalks in a very quick time. Tan turned to a light pinkish hue in two years. SW stayed true to it's color to this day. The Behr was painted over after 3 summers. The two paints were side by side on the rear of the house and we left it to see the results as long as we could stand it. The rate deterioration between the two was drastic. I'll never buy paint at Lowe's or HD again.
My house is rather small with three kids and 2 golden retrievers. We may at some point soon convert the garage shop into living space. At that point I'll likely build a larger version of this. I have a sloping lot on the left of the 3 acres and I hope to put a basement garage under the structure with the 1st floor as my new shop. The basement garage will be big enough to house the boat, car, truck and motorhome. Likely 40' by 48'.
