Why pay someone else, if you can do it yourself?  That’s what I was thinking when I decided to power wash and stain our deck.  I watched someone do ours a few years ago — it didn’t look that hard, and I’ve watched a few youtube videos — I’m set right?

Now that I’ve done it, I can tell you that it was not as easy as it looked, and I’m sure it didn’t turn out as well as it might have if I had paid to have it done.  Of course having said that, I have paid plenty of people to do a not so very good job, so I guess I got my “not so very good job” for free right?  Actually, I think it turned out okay — it was just a tiring job for someone who thinks she is younger than she really is!