Author Topic: wildlife friendly way of cleaning slippy stone flags please?  (Read 4716 times)

Old Shep

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • North Yorkshire
wildlife friendly way of cleaning slippy stone flags please?
« on: October 17, 2013, 06:53:58 pm »
We have some stone flags around the pond that get very slippy at this time of year, does anyone know of a good way to clean them off that isn't going to kill pondlife if it runs into the pond please?
Helen - (used to be just Shep).  Gordon Setters, Border Collies and chief lambing assistant to BigBennyShep.

Louise Gaunt

  • Joined May 2011
Re: wildlife friendly way of cleaning slippy stone flags please?
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2013, 07:45:40 pm »
Is it a large area? Would good old fashioned water and a stiff broom work? Or possibly a pressure washer? Both will shift the slime but not put chemicals in the pond.

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: wildlife friendly way of cleaning slippy stone flags please?
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2013, 11:11:11 pm »
Trained snails? (sorry!  :innocent: )
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
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Re: wildlife friendly way of cleaning slippy stone flags please?
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2013, 01:28:11 am »
Pressure washer.
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hexhammeasure

  • Joined Jun 2008
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Re: wildlife friendly way of cleaning slippy stone flags please?
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2013, 08:48:12 am »
sand, spread some on in late summer scrape it off in spring
Ian

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: wildlife friendly way of cleaning slippy stone flags please?
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2013, 08:57:22 am »
I'm another one for the pressure washer. No chemicals are used, just water
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shygirl

  • Joined May 2013
Re: wildlife friendly way of cleaning slippy stone flags please?
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2013, 09:04:55 am »
Or even a steamer if you have one. We use ours to clean rabbit hutches. Not as fast as a pressure washer but it should kill the mould a bit.

Old Shep

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • North Yorkshire
Re: wildlife friendly way of cleaning slippy stone flags please?
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2013, 10:21:28 am »
thanks - I'll try the pressure washer if the extension cable can reach that far, otherwise I'll try the sand.
 
thanks :-)
 
Helen - (used to be just Shep).  Gordon Setters, Border Collies and chief lambing assistant to BigBennyShep.

 

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