With warm weather incoming, I was desperate to get my outdoor decking area set up and back in action again after a gloomy winter. But before I could get the garden furniture back out, my deck area needed some attention. It was looking pretty grimy all over, but my big concern was the dark patches of algae that had appeared in quite a few places, which looked really unsightly.
The general grime wasn’t too much of an issue - last summer I scrubbed it down with soapy water and a nylon brush, and it came up fine (though it was a bit back-breaking to do). But the areas of algae were a different story. I ended up on my hands and knees scrubbing at them with a scourer, tried bleach and white vinegar, but nothing shifted them.
