How to Clean a Deck - Organic Oxygen Bleach - LIVE Stream 03-03-2022 Ask the Builder

Good afternoon. I'm Tim Carter, and I'm glad you're here. It is, what is it, Thursday, March 3rd, 2022

We're already 10% finished with March, just about. Hard to believe. The day is just marched by. How are you today

Pretty soon in just a few minutes, we're going to be talking about how to clean a deck. I could probably talk about that topic for two or three hours, and you might have some really good questions about how to clean a deck

I can think of a couple of them. What's the best cleaner? What about power washers

What about deck sealers? Like once it's clean, what the deal with sealing it

How often should you clean a deck? What's the easiest way to keep a deck clean

Why does Mildu get on decks? Those are all kinds of great questions

questions you could ask. So you should start, you should start typing your questions in

Charles Almonds Almond are bad I um you know I don know what my um second I guess peanuts would be my second nut choice You know the nuts are um they got such a good some of them have such

very distinct flavors, but cashews by far are my favorite, not of all. Um, really, I love cashews

And nuts are good for you. All right. They're, they're, they're pretty good. I just remember as a kid, I'll tell you real quickly

I didn't live too far away from Crossley Field in Cincinnati. It was down in the Mill Creek Valley

It was one of the old baseball fields for the Cincinnati Reds

And I remember my dad would take me to a couple of baseball games when I was small

And there was a guy named Peanut Jim. You could probably, I swear, if you look on Google images and type in Peanut Jim Cincinnati

my guess would be somebody has uploaded photos of this guy. So he was an old gentleman, and he wore a top hat and tails

and he had his own little cart that he stood outside the baseball stadium and he sold roasted peanuts that he roasted himself

So it was, I don't remember that my dad and I ever bought any, but you just couldn't miss

this guy. So peanut gym, that's what he was called. Josh, cash is related to poison

I did not know that. I hope my mouth doesn't start itching. It never has before

Hello, Louise. We've got the pretty much regular gang here. That's amazing. All right. Without further ado

let's talk about how to clean a deck, all right? As you might expect with many things

there's a right way and a wrong way. And remember, ask questions as we go in case I'm going to try to

basically debunk some myths. It's going to be, I think it's going to be very, I think you're going to

I'm pretty certain. going to discover something here really quickly. Number one, let's talk about pressure

washers and why pressure washers are a bad idea. And I've got some really good columns on

a website about this. If you go to askthebiller.com and just type in pressure washer, you find them You need to understand before you think about using a pressure washer it really important to understand wood and how trees grow

And when you have that understanding, you then will think twice about using a pressure washer

So right now, here in the northern hemisphere, March 1st, the trees, well, in certain areas

like certain areas down south, they've already woken up. I mean, they woke up a month or two ago, like way down south

Here in New Hampshire, they're just starting to wake up. And the sap's going to start running

And the tree is going to, in other words, all winter long

understand that the sap has been stored in the ground in the root system

And then when the temperature is just right and the sun's up, the sap starts to run

So the tree starts to send this, you know, calls for the sap and the sap starts to go

starts to go up, you know, and fill out into the branches so that it can start to grow leaves

All right. So tree, I mean, trees, you're actually pretty amazing. I mean, think about that

Think about the amount of energy it takes to get that sap