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Matt,

One more thing. If bidding the job, make sure you include time to 3M pad Makita buff, or light 60 grit sanding over the ipe'. With ipe', even a percarb cleaning on bare wood leaves tiny little hairs, similar to the dreaded fuzzies. Without removal, many stains will look blotchy. Properly done, ipe' can look like fine furniture, if only for a few months!

I always pull this picture out, it is one of my favorites with a long, but kind of sad story. The old WoodZotic mix, which is 50/50 brown sugar/western cedar WoodTux mix on ipe' done in August of last year.

Stopped by and looked at it this past April. Very little stain left on the floor, but the vertical wood was in decent condition. I know the history of this deck. Stained with Messmers immediately after construction and then with WoodTux 8 months later. Lack of stain lifetime is not a WoodTux problem, it is the nature of the wood and a customer problem.

Sometimes customers will just not listen. Advised to let it weather, but the owner just had to have it look like a million bucks, after spending 60K having it built. IMO, he wasted over 2K in staining costs.