Friday 2 December 2016

HOW TO CLEAN BLOCK PAVING FOR A LIFETIME OF BEAUTY




Every aspect of your home brings a new life to your home. Whether it’s your exterior surroundings, driveways, pathways and backward patios all provide pathways that should be clean and sparkling to accent and enhance the overall look of your home. A great way to make your home stand out and stay trendy is by using pavers.
Block paving demands at least an annual and sometimes twice yearly to help it maintenance free. This makes block paving beautiful and helps keep it structurally sound. If you are looking Paving cleaning in Perth, you should also learn how to clean block paving in your home. It does not only provide a sparkling look to your home but keeps the paving structurally strong.
The following points can help you to have a beautiful looking driveway and patio:
1.    Firstly, you need to remove loose material from the surface; you can brush the paving surface with a stiff broom. The particular attention to areas which is difficult to reach like behind drainpipes and water drains. Be careful while removing material from the surface as large debris and loose stones can cause damage if they hit any car or glass windows.
2.    Don’t remove too much sand when brushing and blowing block paving.
3.    After nicely removed lose material, wash the whole paved area with some detergent or weak soapy water or a good cleaner.
4.    After that, gently scrub the whole area with a broom and brush to remove any dirt if needed.
5.    You can use the power washer to clean the paving.
6.    If any paving surface having oil stains on it, it is better to wash that surface with suitable oil removing the cleaner. You can use neat washing up liquid for light oil stains, just scrub the area then rinse with the warm soapy water. This could remove the stained paving satisfactorily and you see a new clean look of the paving.
7.    Next step is to clean block paving bricks with plenty of clean water to remove the cleaner and any loose dirt.
8.    When the paving surface gets dry, check out any missing jointing kiln dried sand from between the paving block joints.
9.    It is recommended that you should try a suitable weed killer to clean the block paving at periodic times throughout the month of the year. It helps to stop the further growth of weeds, moss and algae blooms.
10.    Last but not the least, if you are struggling to clean the paving, hire some expert in cleaning and sealing paving.