Environment friendly deck cleaner?

[bluey01]

Scrubbed my GRP decks last night (long over due) on my swinging mooring just with water and brush.

Looking at it, I need something to help get the ingrained grime out, however its all going to be washed off into the drink after so don't want to use chemicals really.

Any ideas? White vinegar maybe?

 

[prv]

I've always just used washing up liquid, though this is probably frowned on nowadays (good job I so rarely do it ). But I know tree-huggy types use ecover washing up liquid, so perhaps that?

Pete

 

[Nigel-in-Oxford]

Tiny quantities aren't a problem, I just use bleach and a scrubbing brush.

 

[Keen_Ed]

Ecover floor cleaner. The thick orange stuff.

 

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Starbrite deck cleaner with ptef

This stuff: http://www.seamarknunn.com/acatalog...r-w-PTEF-1000-ml-MT085932GF.html#.U1qU_2t5mSM is excellent.

Go steady with it though.

 

[prv]

Starbrite deck cleaner with ptef

Is Teflon on decks really a good idea?

Pete

 

[KAL]

Once clean, keep it that way by spraying down with patio magic.

 

[sarabande]

we have been here before. Patio Magic is pretty unfriendly to marine organisms. Check out their MSDS.

http://www.brintonproducts.co.uk/framedset.htm?domestic.php~mainFrame


Have a word with www.oiltechnics.com. They have some detergents which are really friendly to flora amd fauna..

 

[KAL]

we have been here before. Patio Magic is pretty unfriendly to marine organisms. Check out their MSDS.

http://www.brintonproducts.co.uk/framedset.htm?domestic.php~mainFrame


Have a word with www.oiltechnics.com. They have some detergents which are really friendly to flora amd fauna..

Oops! But surely if sprayed diluted as required and allowed to dry there is less chance of any nastiness happening? Got to be less damaging than bleach?

 

[nigelmercier]

... Patio Magic is pretty unfriendly to marine organisms...

More so than antifouling paint?

All this Eco friendly stuff is nonsense in the quantities we are talking about, it gets diluted pretty fast.

 

[l'escargot]

Oops! But surely if sprayed diluted as required and allowed to dry there is less chance of any nastiness happening? Got to be less damaging than bleach?

If you spray it on with a fine mister to prevent run off it will do less damage than the cleaners people flush out through their toilets or the detergents that drain out of their sinks.