On Sep 14, 6:17*am, (Shirley ann) wrote:
The only maintenance that we do is to wash the green stuff from winter/
( with 1 cup of clorox- 2 cups of water mix. then apply *Thompson
waterproof.

I mop the solution with a mop to clean it.
Then in a couple days Hub applies the waterproofing by spraying it on.

Our deck wood is wolmanized wood. *The waterproofing makes the wood
dark, that it looks like it is brown.

shirleyann

Thanks for sharing your annual maintenance plan with the use of clear
deck finish. How do you clean it? Do you clean it with bleach along
with scrubbing, or using bleach alone to do its job? When I cleaned
my deck with bleach, I always scrubbed it after waiting 5-10 minutes
for the bleach to take effect. But you said you used a mop; this
leads me to think that you only used the mop to apply the bleach
solution and didn't scrub the deck at all. May be this has to do with
the fact that you did annual maintenance that kept the mildew in
check; therefore, you didn't need to scrub. On the other hand, I
didn't deal with the mildew until years-later that allowed the mildew
to build-up; therefore, I needed to scrub and more scrub in addition
to using bleach in order to remove the mildew. Do I understand this
correctly?

The clear finish sounds easy enough to be maintained annually. I may
remove the semi-transparent stain from my deck and try the clear
finish this time around.

Jay Chan