i cleaned my first deck yesterday, it was about 60m2 with a further 16 linear mtrs of balustrade or spindles, and it was a great confidence booster as it came up well, it is quite a few years old and i was asked to preserve and colour it with deck stain but i decided to wash it first for free just to get the experience. i think i used to much pressure as the spindles furred up quite a bit but i did not see this as a problem because in this instance as the grain opened up nicely ready to take the stain. anyway my question is could i have presprayed the deck with a cleaning agent that would have helped clean up the wood with less pressure.
