Best Stain for "Barn Red" color and long lasting protection

jix · Jun 6, 2015

It is nice!

s219 · Jun 6, 2015

sawtooth said:
View attachment 428487 This is with Cabots semi transparent stain. Rear side of barn. I'm very happy with it so far. Color is barn red.

Looks good! Is that one coat or two?

sawtooth · Jun 6, 2015

1 coat but since it's rough cut it absorbed ALOT.

s219 · Jun 6, 2015

sawtooth said:
1 coat but since it's rough cut it absorbed ALOT.

Yeah, I thought so -- saw the same thing on my barn, and the overlap marks stood out a lot too. The second coat really tied everything together nicely.

sawtooth · Jun 6, 2015

s219 said:
Yeah, I thought so -- saw the same thing on my barn, and the overlap marks stood out a lot too. The second coat really tied everything together nicely.

Yes I agree. I'm going to do another coat next year I think. The part I like is that up close you can see alot of the wood colors still coming through. Actually looks pretty cool.