Often, very often, I start projects that turn out to be a lot more work than I expect them to be. Other times, projects happy out of need or convenience. In the case of our deck renovation it was both. My mom was in town last week to help out with my nephew and had a day off from babysitting. She offered to stain our deck that day. We had been hoping to do this at some point, but jumped at the chance to have some help. All I had to do was clean off the old stain and prep the deck for the new stain and I had a little more than a week to do it. Seemed easy. It wasn’t. Here’s the rundown of how I re-stained our deck.