Deck stripping, sanding and re-staining in Harvey Cedars

How this shows up

• 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 Harvey Cedars

The island is so narrow through the borough that a house can take ocean salt on one elevation and bayside damp on the other, and both are working on it at the same time. The bay-facing walls grow algae faster than almost anywhere on the island because the air off the meadow is humid and the afternoon shade is deep.

Harvey Cedars is a narrow borough on the northern half of the island, at one of the slimmest points on the whole eighteen miles, and that shapes what turns up on these walls.

What access looks like here

There is very little room between houses here, and much of the bay side is reached through the property rather than around it. Boom and ladder work is the norm on the newer stock simply because of how tall it is.

Harvey Cedars handles permitting for work at this address.

What a crew will actually do

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.