The RAD Wood Restoration Contest is closed!
First Place
Annemarie
First Place = $500 + 5 Gallon Pail of RAD Stain of your choice!
Second Place
Ben Smith
Second Place = $250 + 2.5 Gallons of RAD Stain of your choice!
Third Place
Thomas Pongracz
Third Place = $100 + 1 Gallon of RAD Stain or 1 RAD Prep Kit of your choice!
Thanks to all the entered this year!
We will be contacting the winners via email.
Restore-A-Deck 2019 Wood and Deck Restoration Contest Details
- All Restore-A-Deck Prep and Restore-A-Deck Wood Stain must be purchased first from this online eCommerce site (Restore-A-Deck.com) between January 1st – September 5th, 2019.
- The Restore-A-Deck 3-Step Process must be used.
- The deadline for entry is September 15th, 2019.
- The winners will be decided by September 30th, 2019 by our team.
The RAD Contestant Winners will Receive
- First Place = $500 + 5 Gallon Pail of RAD Stain of your choice!
- Second Place = $250 + 2.5 Gallons of RAD Stain of your choice!
- Third Place:= $100 + 1 Gallon of RAD Stain or 1 RAD Prep Kit of your choice!
How To Enter Contest
- Enter by September 15th, 2019.
- In the comment section below, post a short description of your deck/wood staining project, the Restore-A-Deck products used to prep, and the Restore-A-Deck Stain Color used. Was the Restore-A-Deck Stain applied the same day as the prep? Yes or No?
- Examples of wood projects that can be entered: Decks, Fences, Wood Side Homes, Log Cabins, etc.
- 1-2 pictures before the prep of the wood. You can still enter if you do not have the before pictures.
- 1-2 pictures after the prep of the wood using the RAD Prepping Products. You can still enter if you do not have the after prep pictures.
- 2 pictures after the staining using the Restore-A-Deck Wood Stain must be included.
- If having trouble uploading the pictures, please make your picture(s) size smaller (below 3 MB).
Any questions or issues posting, please ask in the comment area.
We look forward to all the entries!
*Disclaimer: All products must be purchased from Restore-A-Deck.com. The contest is not open to products purchased from other online dealers or from physical stores. All 3-Steps in the Restore-A-Deck system will need to be used to win 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Place: Step 1: Restore-A-Deck Wood Cleaner or Restore-A-Deck Stain Stripper. Step 2: Restore-A-Deck Wood Brightener. Step 3: Restore-A-Deck Wood Stains. If you used a different brand of stain but still prepped with the RAD prepping products you can still enter to receive a 5% credit (max credit of $20) towards your purchase from Restore-A-Deck.com.
The after pictures
We used the restore a deck products for our never stained deck boxes and steps using the restore a deck cleaner, brightener, and stain. We also used the stripper, Brightener and stain for our gazebo. we did not apply the stain the same day as prep.
You posted this in the 2019 contest, not the 2020: https://www.restore-a-deck.com/Deck-Cleaning-Reviews-and-Tips/restore-a-deck-prep-and-stain-contest-2020.html
We restored our deck using Restore-A-Deck stripper, brightener, and cedar stain.
Our deck was in HORRIBLE shape & a real eye-sore. Fortunately, our first step was really research, because we had heard about and were tempted to do a Deck-Over kind of stain, but had a bad feeling about it. During a few hours of research, Restore-a-Deck came up again & again as having great value, great quality, & great customer service. We experienced all three.
Our deck is about 16 years old and had been stained for years with a Behr solid stain. We read that R-A-D stripper would work with a solid stain if it were peeling, and ours was peeling quite a bit in places, as you can see in the before pictures. We did replace 4 or 5 boards before we started the stripper.
The stripper (plus booster & thickener) did not take all of it off right away, but it did take SO much off, that we really had hope. We used only our garden hose, not a power washer, because we were too worried about ruining the deck. We used deck scrub brushes & used the entire 1st batch of stripper, rinsing, stripping and scrubbing for several hours.
R-A-D customer service was very quick to reply to our questions & concerns at this point, and coached us to do some sanding and a second round of stripping. We used a couple of hand-held rotary sanders (and a lot of elbow grease!!) and then did a second round of stripping.
The next round of pictures are after this second strip, some spot sanding and then the brightener. Already we could see that the deck had been TRANSFORMED, but once we applied two coats of stain, it looked totally AWESOME! While this was a tough project that involved a lot of scrubbing & sanding, we were able to not only save our deck, but see it undergo an utter transformation from “ugly deckling” to magnificent outdoor hang-out. We were so happy, relieved, & grateful that we went with Restore-A-Deck. Even with the two rounds of stripper, it was still very affordable, and again, the customer support was great.
Here are the before, prepping, staining, and finished pics:
Here’s a few other pics…
Other pictures
Deck refinished and stained is 15 years old and measures 31’x17′. I have used numerous products from solid stains to oil-based stains but RADs prep and stain solution is by far the BEST.
Prep: Stripper & Brightener
Stain: Dark Walnut Semi-Transparent
The Stain was applied 2 days later due to a rainy weather forecast.
Two years after refurbishing my deck I chose Restore-A-Deck Cleaner, RAD Brightener, and RAD Semi-Transparent Light Walnut Stain to finish it up and my wife and I couldn’t be happier. I used the cleaner with a power sprayer and then the brightener one day and stained the next day. I’ll definitely be using these products again! Thanks Restore-A-Deck
Hi Daniel, can you tell me what type of wood you refurbished your deck with?
Thanks, Tony
Before striper
It was ceader stain