{"id":4306,"date":"2024-03-24T18:18:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T01:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2024-03-24T18:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T01:22:39","slug":"it-pays-to-ipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/?p=4306","title":{"rendered":"It pays to Ipe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4614-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4307\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4614-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4614-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4614-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4614-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4614-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ipe in all its glory.  The four or so boards on the bottom are washed but not yet stained.  The rest of the boards are stained with Defy for Hardwoods.  We used a mix of Butternut, Cedar, and a sprinkle of Redwood Tone.  Interesting to see how each board is totally unique in color and grain.  It had been four years since I last washed and stained this 15 year old deck off San Andreas Road in South County Santa Cruz.  It obviously cleaned up nicely and the final look is better than new.  Am I right or what? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ipe in all its glory. The four or so boards on the bottom are washed but not yet stained. The rest of the boards are stained with Defy for Hardwoods. We used a mix of Butternut, Cedar, and a sprinkle of Redwood Tone. Interesting to see how each board is totally unique in color and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","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=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4310,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}