{"id":1088,"date":"2009-10-08T09:08:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T16:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2010-01-08T09:33:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T16:33:16","slug":"1088","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"Grey or Gray?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1249.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1087\" title=\"IMG_1249\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1249-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1249\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>This south facing wood balcony wall gets indirect light, but no direct sun.\u00a0 The <strong>graying<\/strong>, which ultimately will turn black, is happening because a topical sealant has been used over the years, vs. using a transparent stain.\u00a0 Topical sealants, although they do protect the wood, also magnetize an extra-ordinary amount of natural debris.\u00a0 Because sealants can remain sticky(<span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">especially with limited sun exposure<\/span>) you can see how and why the wood can turn grey and then black.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent this from happening to wood siding or shingle siding, it&#8217;s important to properly wash the wood boards and consistently maintain the wood with quality transparent stains.\u00a0 This picture is evidence as to how well dirty siding will clean up with the right kind of pressure wash.\u00a0 No lap marks and no more <strong>greying.<\/strong> The work isn&#8217;t done though.\u00a0 The next step is to apply <em>Biowash Natural Deck Oil.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Aptos, California.\u00a0\u00a0 Deck &amp; Siding Maintenance.<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Magnificent Stuff!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This south facing wood balcony wall gets indirect light, but no direct sun.\u00a0 The graying, which ultimately will turn black, is happening because a topical sealant has been used over the years, vs. using a transparent stain.\u00a0 Topical sealants, although they do protect the wood, also magnetize an extra-ordinary amount of natural debris.\u00a0 Because sealants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-super-siding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}