Chemical deck stain stripper

joeyvicks

hi folks,

the decking at our house has cedar coloured stain on at present. I've tried to power wash it off and although it has lifted a little its still not enough to re-stain it a lighter coloured as we are wanting to (cant remove any of it from the ballustrades and handrail).
Has anyone in the past used any sort of chemical stripper to do this sort of thing and could anyone recommend a product for this job?

Mankysteve

You can't as the stain will be to deep.

Suzy_M

You can get wood bleaches which may work on this finish but what this would do to the durability of the wood I've no idea.

Naturally sun bleaching will fade the colour but how long this takes depends on the quality of the finish that was used.