Quote Originally Posted by GRADS View Post
Does everything that is metal rust that bad because you are so close to the salt water?
Yes, if you don't treat metal items that are outside they tend to rust/corrode quicker since we're on top of the Gulf and we get the salt air, it's like anything else, if you maintain things it's does OK, the people that owned the house before us didn't take care of stuff very well, so this is what you get, if you spray WD-40 on metal stuff every 4-6 months it keeps it from corroding.

Every other time we go to Sam's I buy a three pack of WD-40, I spray the garage springs, the metal pool and dock stuff and of course the outdrives on my boat every other time we take the boat out, it works great.

I guess that's the price you pay to live on top of the ocean, it's worth it.