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Staining the Interior

Bob and painting contractor Milo Moran roll solid stain inside the boat barn on the yellow pine plywood walls. While stain is not usually used on inside walls, a single coat in this application works well to add a touch of color without completely eliminating the wood texture.
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Staining the Interior

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" I'm glad we made the decision to put a stain over the southern yellow pine plywood not good choice in to those solids it was a it was another good that it's right. Because what this does is it really well it unifies the whole thing yeah southern yellow pine has that strong yellow and that strong grain pattern to it really irregular and now you can really perceived the look for rain the post and beam frame stands out an action that's great let's interrupt my old warrant are paying contractor over here why are there any tricks to paint being with us. Or rather to staining with a with a plywood product like this. My printer -- Bob -- brush to cut in. And then we turn around and we use the roller to roll line. The stain so that it gives a good good coverage and we come back we brought him in for that we brush in the crew's ability and in. They don't licenses though you're actually let me try my hand that it instrument just. Take over your job -- here you're putting it on that having. You have learned of -- And it does fill in and so some of the need. You can say. What you always do have to come back with your brush. And it just work it into the groups. Now this is basically. Thompson's stain that you can use on the outside your house it's an opaque stain and in this case we're putting an inside and bright but. I specified just putting one coat over it as opposed to you get that coverage you get uniformity but you still had some of the grain pattern bleed through. I didn't want to kind of the wooden -- it. Host good mile."

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