You must clean and seal treated lumber. Oxygen bleach is a great, non-toxic cleaner. Seal with a penetrating water repellent. Make sure it has synthetic oils and resins. Algae and mildew will return to feed on a film forming sealer.
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Algae and mildew are eating on your deck. Get that film forming sealer off your wooden deck. Apply a synthetic resin water repellent sealer and you and your family will be the only ones eating on your deck.
Your wood deck can look like new. Oxygen bleach will safely clean your deck without harming surrounding plantings. Use a synthetic resin deck sealant to seal your deck. Put your feet up on a lounge chair and enjoy the next few years.
Wood decks look great when coated with a film forming sealant ... for about a minute. They tend to peel from exposure to the elements. Strip these films off and clean your deck. Oxygen bleach will clean without causing all the damage that chlorine bleach will. Apply a synthetic water repellent. It will not feed the growth of mildew and algae and will look great ... for years.
Clean and seal your deck and take next year off? It can be done. Use oxygen bleach to get a beautiful clean. Power washing will chew up the soft wood of your deck. Penetrating water repellents made of synthetic resins soak into the wood. These are not film forming sealers that will feed algae and mildew. Follow the directions and then take a year or two off.
Wood decks built with CCA treated lumber should be cleaned and sealed to keep the chemicals from being washed out of them and into the soil. Power washing can destroy a deck by shredding the soft wood on top. Oxygen bleach cleaners are non toxic and clean wood beautifully. Seal your wood decks with a synthetic resin sealer which has no oils to feed the growth of mildew or algae.
Oil based sealants will seal a wooden deck. They will repel the water. They will also feed mildew and algae, allowing the wooden deck to gray out and darken. Seal your wood deck with an epoxy fortified sealer. It has no oils and penetrates deeply into the wood.
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