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Has anyone had any experience with alternative deck care products like:
Oxalic Acid crystals: This is the active ingredient in most deck cleaners like Starbrite etc. Do you know the right concentration to mix? Also Oxalic acid is like bleach, it whitens and does no damage to fibreglass, but rinse it well as rubber, chaulking, wood etc does react with it.
Trewax Non-slip wax is sold by Home depot at about $10 for 180 sq ft of coverage. The Trewax web site says the liquid wax is safe for fibreglass and forms a high traction surface. Sounds like a good product to preserve an old deck longer..... Has anyone tried it?
John - Weather or Not - Mrk 2
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There is a thread here with various recommendations including the Starbrite material and something called Barkeeper's Friend (US only?). Both contain oxalic acid. I'd be careful with this stuff in pure form. I've used it in really low concentrations for bleaching rust stains out of wood - it makes TSP look like baby powder when it gets a chance to attack your skin.
One contributor suggests Mr Clean with Marseille soap, which sounds reasonably similar to Murphy's Oil Soap.
I prefer to use my power washer to clean the deck. It's kinda noisy, but does a superb job and no cleaners are required (the cleaner the chandlery sells is supposed to be super-green, but it does leave foam on the water, which may earn you the hairy eyeball from one or more of the club's self-appointed Earth Police). You just have to be careful not to point it at joints.
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
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Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
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Do people use anything to seal or wax (non slip kind) the deck after washing - whether power washing or with other chemicals or cleaners? I find that shortly after power washing it gets dirty very quickly and stains easily.
Barry - Oasis Mk V
Aurora makes a product called "Sure Step", which is a wax specifically for decks and non-skid areas. It contains a compound which they claim actually improves traction under pressure. I have been very pleased by my deck's ability to resist dirt and staining once I had waxed it with this and I do not feel that it was any more slippery than an unwaxed surface. Indeed, possibly less slippery.
Marcus
Carriden (Hull#847)
Marcus Opitz,
Formerly from Carriden, Mk III, Hull #847,
now skippering "Everdina," a 1975 Ontario 32
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For non-skid, or all surfaces, after waxing with Fleetwax 870 I use Woody Wax...over the entire deck. Excellent, and works quite well on the toe rail for revitalizing. It is expensive but it lasts a long time and is frightfully easy to apply. I just use any eco-safe boat clearner, but we wax more often down here (FL).
I have spent a heck of a lot trying different deck cleaners and waxes due to a fear of people (my kids mostly) slipping on deck, but these work best and are reviewed very positively in Practical Sailor. I will likely try the other Woody products because of how great Woody Wax is.
http://www.woody-wax.com/
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