Deck stripping, sanding and re-staining in Barnegat Light

What usually prompts the call

• A stain that is peeling in sheets on the sunny half and still sound on the shaded half
• Boards that have gone grey and furry and give you splinters barefoot
• Composite decking with black spotting that a hose will not shift

Why this comes up in Barnegat Light

Nothing on the island takes more raw salt than this end of it. The inlet keeps wind moving across the borough almost constantly, and the spray it carries reaches inland streets that on the rest of the island would be sheltered. Glass here goes hazy within days and the northern and eastern elevations of a house carry a visible chloride film for most of the year.

Older dockside cottages and bungalows in the numbered streets near Viking Village, sitting alongside newer elevated construction toward the lighthouse and the ocean blocks. A high share of the older stock is painted wood or cedar rather than vinyl.

Getting the work done in Barnegat Light

Streets are short and run inlet to bay, so a rig can usually be set up close to the work. Parking near the Viking Village docks is the exception, and in scallop season the commercial traffic on Bayview Avenue decides what time of day a crew can be there at all.

Barnegat Light handles permitting for work at this address.

What the job looks like

On a wood deck the honest sequence is strip, neutralise, sand and re-coat, and skipping the sanding is why so many re-stains fail in one season. On composite the job is different: the black spotting is usually mould growing in the surface texture, and it wants a low-pressure treatment, not a pressure washer, which will permanently stripe the boards. Ask which one you have before anyone quotes it — plenty of island decks are a wood frame with composite boards and a wood rail.