{"id":982,"date":"2009-05-11T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2009-12-26T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T17:54:36","slug":"dont-forget-this-horizontal-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t forget THIS horizontal board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a wood deck in Santa Cruz County, it is highly recommended\u00a0 to have your deck maintained annually.\u00a0 If there was one question that was asked more than other question as it pertains to maintenance, it is whether or not the rails need to be maintained annually.\u00a0 I usually answer that by saying NO, however the top 2&#215;6 that caps the railing should definitely be maintained as often as the deck itself.\u00a0 Basically, if the board sits horizontally, it weathers much, much quicker than any vertical board.\u00a0 This picture of a railing in Pasatiempo best exemplifies that.\u00a0 We came back to this deck after two years, and all the vertical posts were still handling stain quite well, yet the top piece was obviously in need of a cleaning and some more Biowash Natural Deck Oil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-983\" title=\"IMG_0943\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0943-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0943\" width=\"363\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a wood deck in Santa Cruz County, it is highly recommended\u00a0 to have your deck maintained annually.\u00a0 If there was one question that was asked more than other question as it pertains to maintenance, it is whether or not the rails need to be maintained annually.\u00a0 I usually answer that by saying [&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-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cleaningsantacruz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}