I am in the process of finishing our deck and plan to wrap the railing with IPE. When I installed the decking material, I sealed the cut ends of the IPE decking with AnchorSeal (waxy sealer).
Now that I will have a significant amount of cross cuts required to wrap the pressure treated pine gaurdrail framining, and given my experience with the excess wax drippings preventing the sealer (Messmers U.V. Plus for hardwoods) from taking properly, I would like to not use it if I can get away with just putting the Messmers on the cut ends.
Has anyone tried to just put a finish like Messmers on the endgrain rather than using an end sealer such as Anchorseal to prevent splitting / checking for wood that would be used in an outdoor environment?
Thanks,
David