Well... still working on the deck and after giving ity some thought, decided to power wash the railing and lattice. The bad thing is power washing the privacy lattice, it takes forever. You have to basically go over every strip of the lattice to get it clean, or at least as clean as you can.
We have two power washers, an electric 1750 psi, and a gas 3300 psi. For the lattice we use the 1750 psi washer, so it doesn't blow the lattice apart, plus, when going around the pool your so close to the lattice (about 3-feet) there is to much water from the 3300 psi washier, it harder to control where the water is going plus you get soaked more.
Here'd two pics of the railing before and after power washing.
So, what's the new plan? As you can see in the first picture by the truck going by, this side of the deck faces the road, thus the privacy lattice. The lattice goes all around the deck and the pool. Yesterday we decided to take two sections down where the gate is to get up onto the deck and pool area and thought it looked pretty nice opened up.
After seeing we both liked it opened up (with the lattice removed), we decided to remove the lattice on the back side of the pool and deck. Don't really need it back there anyways being the only thing back there is the bank and the fire pit up on the hill. So today's plan is to remove that lattice which will in turn save us a lot of time, water, gas, and electric!
The big question I have for myself is what am I going to do about the top of the railing after removing the lattice? The railing has no "top" on it, though it does at the gate on each side. Depending on how it looks I might just let it as it is, else I might put deck boards on top, else put treated 2x4's between the railing at the top being the posts are 4x4's the sx4's would fit right between the inside and outside railing boards.
I'll post a few pics later of the deck/pool area with the lattice still up and with it taken off.
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