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Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: Cinderhills on March 02, 2011, 08:23:20 am

Title: Cleaning paving
Post by: Cinderhills on March 02, 2011, 08:23:20 am

I jet washed my paving yesterday to get rid of the green algae or whatever it is, however now it's dried I can see that there are still spots of green that are embedded and the washer didn't remove.

Is there a natural solution I can wash them with?  The reason being is that my chickens could very well drink the water  from rinsing and I don't want to harm them.

Title: Re: Cleaning paving
Post by: robert waddell on March 04, 2011, 07:14:47 pm

steam cleaning with pressure washer you can run traffic film remover through it

Title: Re: Cleaning paving
Post by: Fleecewife on March 04, 2011, 11:29:10 pm

Citrox from the Organic gardening catalogue is good.  It's lemon based so won't harm the chooks or the environment and you can use it to clean your plant pots, hen drinkers, watewr barrels etc as well  :chook:

Title: Re: Cleaning paving
Post by: doganjo on March 05, 2011, 12:47:41 am

Vinegar

Title: Re: Cleaning paving
Post by: Cinderhills on March 05, 2011, 10:06:25 am

That's great, thank you very much for your ideas.

Title: Re: Cleaning paving
Post by: Blonde on March 05, 2011, 01:30:02 pm

Quote from: Cinderhills on March 05, 2011, 10:06:25 am

That's great, thank you very much for your ideas.

Pool Chlorine is also very good and the cholorine diminishes in no time.  Quite safe for your chickens.  It only needs to be very diluted.  Can be done regularly to keep the slime  off the pavers.  Can also be used as a fungicide for black spot on roses.