Once-a-Year Homemade Patio Cleaner and Deck Scrub While too harsh for regular cleaning, this recipe gives your deck or patio a good scrub down once or twice a year. Materials ...

With this DIY deck cleaner recipe, the active ingredients do all the cleaning work, and intense water pressure isn't required. A regular garden hose is more than sufficient to rinse away the cleaner.

The very chemicals that keep the water in your swimming pool pristine can corrode your grill or degrade your deck. Mix in a little dampness and a lot of foot traffic and you get a real mess.