Western Red Cedar Stain Colors
Staining cedar with a solid color stain.
Western red cedar stain colors. Once western red cedar is properly cleaned a regular maintenance program of same stain finish is required. To add a rich long lasting opaque color there s ppg s 100 acrylic stain which protects against sun and water damage. What you get is a very uniform opaque color. The upside is that solid color stains will block most damaging ultraviolet light.
Regularly applying a transparent or semi transparent stain on your cedar every few years is how to keep cedar looking as natural as possible. Olympic elite woodland oil stain is among the best performing wood stains for cedar decks. Thus solid color stains let some of the cedar s grain show through but none of the color. The formula is super pigmented ready mix colors it has transparent iron oxide pigments that give intense color with extreme clarity and above all it is durable.
And to slightly tint your siding with color pigmentation uv5 penetrating wood finish is a sound choice. Remember that proper surface preparation and cleaning before refinishing are essential for optimal performance of the new finish coat or coats. Solid color stains have solid particles but not nearly as many as paint. In doing so never needing to clean black mildew again looking as natural as possible.
8 samples of stain on western red cedar wood.