On Jul 1, 1:34*pm, ransley wrote:
On Jul 1, 3:21*pm, wrote:

I have a fairly large 20 year old cedar deck which I have cleaned and
resealed religiously every 2 years for the past 6 years that I have
owned the house. *I use a wood cleaner/brightener and deck scrubber (a
stiff bristle brush on a pole) to clean it... which easily takes 12 to
15 hours over the course of 3 days (after work) to complete to my
satisfaction before resealing it. *This becomes more and more of a
task as I get older. *I don't mind the blisters on top of blisters
(yeh, I do wear gloves), but the sore back and arms slay me. *I do not
believe in using a pressure washer. *There has got to be an easier
method to scrubbing a deck. *Has anyone tried using an electric
compact walk-behind cylindrical floor scrubber with the nylon counter-
rotating brushes (not a rotating disc)? *They are advertised as being
able to scrub any surface, but usually list tile & grout, brick,
cement, hardwood, rubber, carpet, etc. *I haven't seen these being
associated with scrubbing decks, but I'm wondering why not?

So what do you have against pressure washers, you are missing it, with
one its an hours work. Do you paint a house with a brush or roller or
sprayer.

I've done quite a bit of research over the years and using a brush is
the prefered method because of the damage a pressure washer can do to
the wood fibers. Yep, and I know one needs to keep the pressure low.
I did try it once on a small area out of exhaustion from using a brush
for several hours. However, it didn't do half as good as several
passes with a brush... and that was with the nozzle a few inches from
the decking. So, even with the reason of possibly damaging the wood,
the results were enough to convince me that a brush was far better.

I painted the exterior of my house a 4 or 5 years back. It's a two
story house with a 30 foot chimney. I belt sanded the entire
structure and painted it 3 times by brush... 1 primer coat and 2 top
coats. Still looks great today. If I had to back-brush it after
spraying it, spraying seemed pointless.