It's like projects never ends. If it's not one thing, it's something else. Today I decided to start power washing the deck... a lot of deck! I was going to use bleach on it before power washing it but my sprayer broke and didn't feel like buying another one being they are not cheap, besides that I don't really know if chlorine is really good for the wood on the deck, so I ended up not using chlorine..
We used to use stuff you put on the deck to help protect it, but I don't have much faith in it either and it's expensive. The stuff you put on it to protect it might help with the ultra-violet rays from the sun, but but I don't think it does much good in the winter when you think about it.
During the winter rain and or snow gets in the cracks in the wood then freezes pushing on the grain of the wood that can cause splits and wear and tear. Yea, you treat your deck, and the water beads up... but it still ends up laying in the cracks or gains of the wood., so it's kind of like why bother?
The deck in the pictures below is around 26 years old and in the summertime with the sun beating on it, you can hardly walk on it at times it can get so hot.
Anyways... here are some pictures of parts of the deck I power washed beside parts that wasn't power washed yet. Still have a lot of deck to go power wash yet.
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