On Jul 2, 10:36*am, wrote:
On Jul 1, 3:31*pm, ransley wrote:





On Jul 1, 4:30*pm, wrote:

On Jul 1, 2:06*pm, wrote:

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:21:44 -0700 (PDT),
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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?

I haven't used a dual opposing scrubber for decks but I purchased
a Hoover FloorMax Supreme for my vinyl flooring. It works great.

I would caution that the brushes are not very stiff or durable for
deck use. I would think that the gap between the planks on the
deck would accelerate the destruction of the nylon/plastic bristles.

That being said I believe that the use of this tool would be a
improvement over manual cleaning, until the brushes wears out.

When I purchased my dual opposing scrubber I had a difficult time
finding anything that wasn't a very costly commercial grade scrubber..
I finally found the wallet friendly Hoover that is not commercial
grade but cheap enough to justify its purchase.

It looks like the brushes on the Hoover FloorMax Supreme are disc-
like. *Is this correct? *This would cut across the decking grain. *I'm
looking for something with roller-like brushes used with the grain.
Yeh, the cylindrical floor scrubbers I've looked at are definitely
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I have the hoover with the two disks and I dought its what you want.
The key is a good cleaner, I use Oxcilic acid and I power wash, not
power blast, or ruin any grain, an electric 1300 lb power washer kept
far enough away to clean is what I even use on cedar shake homes.
Sherwin Williams carries an oxcilic acid cleaner pre mixed, its
standard to power wash and it works well evough to stain. If you have
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In my original post I referred to cylindrical floor scrubbers.
Cylindrical floor scrubbers have cylindrical (roller-like) brushes.
These would be more effective than the disc scrubbers on decking where
the board imperfections (grooves and grain) run lengthwise. *I imagine
there would be less wear on the brushes as well.

I have a 2600 psi gas pressure washer which, like I said, I wasn't
impressed with the results (compared to a brush side-by-side). *The
wood cleaner\brightener I use contains oxalic acid. *Is this the same
as the oxcilic acid you referred to? *It could be too that I am trying
to achieve the better results of a brush (in my experience) because I
use a clear finish\sealer, not a stain. *The time and effort invested
in cleaning may be less if an opaque sealer is used because the deck
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Im sure my spelling of the acid is bad, talk to boat specialists with
teak decks, there you use a cleaner and brush as you do. I use a
colored stain so I dont care if its as clean, but boat storage yards
may have a few tricks they use on big teak decks.