On 24 Feb, 19:36, Eddy
wrote:
If anyone has experience of treating decking, I'ld be glad of advice.

I have a great deal of decking between the house and the garden. *It was
put down about 10 years ago and was never coated with anything. *The
previous owner gave it a light power-wash twice a year and this has kept
the algae down, so there is barely any green to be seen anywhere. The
fact that all this decking is south-facing probably also helps keep the
algae down. *Currently all the wood looks clean but grey.

The pale grey of the decking does not fit at all well with the strong
mahogany-colour of the UPVC window-frames, so for this reason I want to
coat the decking so that it matches the windows. *A paint company has
advised me to firstly clean the decking with "oxygen bleach", to clean
it and remove discolourations, and then to coat it with "a water-based
epoxy sealer with a synthetic resin."

Does anybody here have experience of these products?

Also, what would you recommend as being best for the above situation?

Thanks,
Eddy.

A water proof epoxy would be the the last thing I would use. I would
use a water repellant preservative stain and keep water vapour moving
in and out and water in the liquid phase out
There has been an extensive previous post on this as far as I can
recollect...
Chris