We are a commercial stain and seal company based in Tennessee and we stain roughly 300-500 fences and decks per year. We have always used and swear by oil based stains but had never tried Ready Seal. As luck would have it we were given some Ready Seal to try out by a really nice Ready Seal Sales rep. We were very skeptical to change over to "another oil based stain", but thought we would give it a shot. We applied "Pecan" stain to a treated pine deck for one of our customers. The color was beautiful, it really highlighted the grain, the smell was minimal and it was easy to apply. The stain dried really fast and left no foot prints for us to back brush later. We even spilled a bucket of stain and simply spread it out with a roller and you could not tell once we were finished. Our customer was happy and our stainers were happy. We have since added Ready Seal to our product line. ThanksCaleb www.stainandsealexperts.com