Pressure washed wood!

[dyork]

I have a deck and I've pressure washed it so many times that you can't walk on it without getting splinters in your feet. Can I treat it with something or do I have to sand it down and then treat it? And what is the best treatment?

Thanks!

[PDQ]

Your best bet is to lightly sand the deck with 80 grit to remove the = tufts raised by the pressure washer and, in the future, use the "fan" = setting on the nozzle instead of the high pressure setting. The "fan" = setting will give the same results without as much wood raising.=20

Before you treat the deck, you might want to read what they have to say = at =20

Wood Handbook Wood as an engineering material. General Technical Report 113. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest = Products Laboratory. 463 p.

is a section which deals with "Biodeterioration of Wood" and = another on "Finishing of Wood" which will be of some interest to you. = It certainly opened my eyes.