r/Home_improvement

The previous owner painted this wooden deck with indoor paint, and it is obviously chipping after less than six months. I am deciding between:

\- power washing it and repainting it with actual deck paint (same color)
\- sanding it fully and adding some sort of wood varnish. Would likely rent a sanding machine

I think I would leave the railing red because I don't want to sand those posts and spend too much time getting it to a place I would feel satisfied.

What would you do? Any recommendations?

So we had these stairs regrouted a year and a half ago (bc the stone was picture framing due to the original grout being placed when it was too cold out) and after this winter all the grout is coming out of this one joint in the front next to the tread. When you lift the grout there is sand type material underneath which I don’t understand why. There’s also this white stuff on the step below it that won’t come off that I don’t know if it’s related. Any ideas what would cause this and how to fix it! Not asking the guy who did them originally bc I don’t trust them anymore.