My parents bought some messmers stain to put on their deck and their two wooden bridges that are over their massive Coy pond. I had never heard of messmers stain but knew that they had probably checked it out thoroughly before buying it like they do with everything else. I volunteered to help stain the bridges because if needed to me done very carefully so as not to get any stain in the water because it might kill the fish. It took me four hours to apply the messmers stain to each of the bridges but they look great and so does the deck which my parents stained.