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Maintenance on the west facing portion of the garage. Glenshire, CA.

Summer 2022. Driftwood Gray Project

This was a tough one. Aptos California June 2022. 3.5 gallons @ $65/gal. 25 labor hour @ $65/hr. It’s what custom wood maintenance looks like. If you’d like we can talk about this very project. It’s a common one.

These 20y/o shingles face west. So far as shingle maintenance goes, my recommendation for shingles that face west is to love them up every eight years or so. These went ten. Yes these shingles were dirty, blackened to a degree, quite a number of them were greenish, so yes they probably waited a bit too long. Nevertheless…

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Cedar Tone Shingle Maintenance Santa Cruz

Decks, Fences, Shingles, Custom Arbors

Aptos, Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz

Nice to see you again. It had been 12 years since I last loved up the north side of this Pleasure Point home. You can see the progress from the top down. This is a nice picture taken at 9:30am. Cedar Tone blend, Extreme Semi-Transparent by Defy. This side of the home get a slight amount of indirect morning sun, but nothing more than that, hence the 12 years in between maintenance coats.

Wood Sided Homes, Shingle Siding, Arbors, Fences, Privacy Walls, All things exterior wood

Santa Cruz, Deck Staining/Sealing, Felton, Boulder Creek, Soquel, Live Oak

Shingle Maintenance Santa Cruz

Individually Washed

Individually Stained

Fine for Wrigley, or when it takes over a brownstone in NYC. Bad Idea for shingled and wood sided homes. ‘Oh but it looks so pretty’.  Bad Idea!

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IMG_3960This was and still is an old fence.  This fence now beads water motor oil.

Of course you do, but explain what you mean!?!  Which slice of natural do you want your brand new deck to look like?  Do you want it to look exactly like it did or does the day it was completed?  Do you want it to look like the guy or gal who built it says it should look?  Natural Blonde or Brunette?  Naturally Grey perhaps?  Do you want it to look natural today and tomorrow?  What about in six months, still natural?  What about six years?   
It’s Relative and It’s For Real

Custom Deck Maintenance in Santa Cruz

Shingles, Arbors, Fences, Privacy Areas

Whole House

 

Annual Maintnenance

Heavy Sun Exposure

South Facing Wall

Live Oak California

25 y/o Redwood Siding

Wood Siding Maintenance Project

West Side Santa Cruz

Phase One

This mammoth shingled home on Rebecca Lane in Boulder Creek is officially underway.  Thirty years of neglect.  This is the north facing front of this beautiful mountain hideaway.  As always, we decided on Extreme by Defy.  We will use a cedar tone as a 3/5 base, and add redwood, driftwood grey, and butternut to complete the mix.  

Even after all these years, I still get confused when the client says they want the shingles to look natural.  I’m never sure if that means naturally clean or naturally filthy.

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A mix n’ Match. Old Cedar Siding

Santa Cruz Fence Maintenance

Staining & Sealing

Custom Tones

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One section at a time.  This new fence wraps around a corner lot home and stood unprotected for the perfect amount of time, which in this case was 8 months.  Quick wash, 3x coat blending a driftwood grey tone with an earth tone.  Delicious!

What a difference a day makes!!

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Shingle Maintenance Professionals

Santa Cruz, Ca, 95062

Restore & Restain

Every so often, a picture does more justice than if the moment wasn’t captured at all.  This is an early evening shot as you can maybe see by the moon in the sky.  This is a 40 year old wood structure that I first overhauled in 2012.

The February 2018 work weather aligned perfectly for some routine maintenance on these beautiful West Side town homes off Mission Avenue above downtown Santa Cruz.  This is the west facing side.  Takes a lot of sun..

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Call or Text today and schedule a bid.  Decks, Shingles, Fences..

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This is high end lumber on a custom home built in 1995.  We began the siding maintenance in 2004.  Therefore, in the 13 years since we got the job, this was our fourth time adding a maintenance coat to this South facing wall.  From the top, you can see that the staining process is underway.  So yeah, 4x in 13 years due to the heavy sun exposure.  Many parts of this beautiful home in Live Oak have received only one coat during the past 13 years.  Another example of “as needed” exterior wood maintenance.  The alternative to “as needed” maintenance is waiting every 10 years to stain the entire home.  Bad idea!!

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