5-Gallon Natural Cedar Exterior Stain and Sealer - Ready Seal 512

Rocky: Great product and great price! Would recommend

Canada on Oct 25, 2023

Chris: To prep , I used backpack sprayer and hit the fence with pool chlorinator from Walmart diluted to half strength, didn't bother with spraying off afterword as it was pretty much dry by the time I got done. That pretty much bleached everything back to like new, probably not great for wood but whatever. Was 3-4 weeks later by the time I got around to applying the stain.

I flipped the cans over the night before and then stirred them pretty good that day.

Used an airless sprayer for ease of application, was worth the time saving and ease of application despite knowing I'm sure I lost plenty to over spray. 10 gallons was just enough to do two coats, both sides of 150ft of fence about 6ft tall so whatever that comes out to mathematicians.

It looks decent enough after the first coat and tried to talk myself out of putting second coat on which is what instructions say to do but as it only took about an hour or so to do I manned up and put the second coat on and glad I did, looks great so go ahead and talk yourself into like I did.

I used the pecan finish and turned out great, can see the wood texture just fine and there were no orange tones which were my two...

United States on Oct 17, 2023

RON ROMANIUK: I sprayed it on my fence with a hand held pump garden sprayer and the product blended into itself perfectly
no runs all evenly coated ... really nice stuff to work with . The natural cedar is a great finish on new cedar .

Canada on Sep 19, 2023

FLowWOOLF NATURALSFLowWOOLF NATURALS: P.S. We paid for our product-- this isn't a paid endorsement!
Our deck was 3-yrs. old, never stained, grey, weathered so badly [first 2-photos]-- some of the steps were deteriorating into a "checkered" pattern, i.e., disintegrating. Blasting hot Southern sun, monsoons, wind. More sun. More grey. Rapid aging. Never stained it because product review were so BAD! Until...

Tripped onto Ready Seal on Amazon after reading dozens, hundreds of reviews of so many different products. Skip the 5-Star-- just read the 1-Star Reviews. Loads of research over these 3-years, but nothing popped. Until Ready Seal came on the horizon. Minimal 1-Stars. Started watching every video I could find on RS. YouTube, Amazon, Ready Seal's proprietary videos. Reading data sheets on RS's website. Tons more research. Months pass.

Convinced. Buy two 5-gal. totes of Natural Cedar. I wanted the "most orange" color RS offered. I call this "Backwards Prep." Order the supply before I'm ready to do the work. This gives me the incentive to "go all in. Not back out. Forge ahead. Wait for the monsoons to stop. Research a little more. Learn how to turn this amateur gig into professional. Techniques. Tools....

United States on Sep 15, 2023

VictorVictor: We used this on an eleven year old deck, treated but unfinished boards. They had held up well through western prairie summer/winter conditions, but were starting to show their age.
This is a penetrating oil. Easy to use, a 5” brush did best and neatest coverage on the 12’ x 16’ surface.
Still about 1/3rd of pail left.
Prep was just a light fast surface sanding.
Other decks in past years had various paints and stains, but they all eventually peel and crack and cause more work. This oil soaks right into the board grain.
Excellent product. We will continue to use it.
The applied colour is darker than the ordering sample, but that more likely is due to the aged boards.

Canada on Sep 09, 2023

John SJohn S: The following review is my experience refinishing my fence with Ready Seal stain/sealer. 4 years ago I rebuilt my privacy fence using cedar pickets this time around instead of the pressure treated pine used previously. Wanting to let the wood weather/dry out/shrink before I stained it, somehow 4 years went by. The south (full sun) facing portion of the fence had turned dark gray (almost black when wet) while the north facing side was a nice medium gray but had a little mildew in places. Letting it go so long required a major power washing. Now that the fence was looking almost new again It was time to put some protection on it. Having previously coated the fence (before rebuild) with a water based stain product I decided this time around I wanted an oil based stain that actually "absorbed/penetrated" into the wood. The water based stain (from that orange big box store) weathered like paint, meaning it peeled and flaked after a number of years on the full sun side of the fence. After much research I settled on Ready Seal. Ready Seal seemed to check all the boxes, oil based, "goof proof" application, long lasting, great reviews, etc. I initially started application with an airless...

United States on Aug 12, 2023

FilomenaFilomena: This product is amazing. I highly recommend the product. I initially did not know what to expect with the product. Heck putting up fence boards was suddenly a requirement so I had a huge learning curve. First the wood and then the stain. Regular fence boards? Cedar fence boards? Tongue and groove fence boards? (What, that’s a thing for fences?!). Then the spacing and allowance for expansion and shrinkages. What colour stain? Oil base? Water base? So much information and my head spun a bit. Once I selected the wood things just fell in place. And the wood specialists recommended the oil stain for its better protection so I came to Amazon to search for stains and this one came up. It was perfect and just what I needed both in colour and quantity as I needed a lot as I was staining 185 fence boards. From the first to the last board the stain was perfect. The container is great and I really liked the opening which was so easy to open and pour out the quantities I need. The stain goes on very nicely and coats well. I don’t know it’s longevity yet but so far the product is amazing.

Canada on Jul 31, 2023

Glenn Sweetland: So far I've only done a very small porch and railing. The color I purchased is Natural Light Oak. It was applied on the Sierra brown pressure treated lumber that was just starting to grey, about 3 years in the sun. It was darker than I thought it would be but so far I am happy with the color. It would I say it looks very much like that nice stained cedar color and applied very well with a brush with no lines or streaking and after about a month repels water nicely. Having said that it's now a waiting game to see if it peels or fades significantly before using it on a much bigger deck so as not to create a potentially huge job of removing it if it peels.
I will update if anything worth posting changes. Will apply to larger deck this fall or next spring if it is still looking good.

Canada on Jun 21, 2023