My concrete flagged patio is looking a bit grotty even though it gets loads of sunlight. I jet washed it using washing up liquid, but it is still not brilliant. I jet wash it every year. It has been down for about 5 years and always looked fine up to now. Does anybody know if patio cleaner really works?
I thought "concrete flag"s were a chav thing, only laid by council tenant on account of its cost?
Concrete flags do change and become dull, why no reputable home owner would ever use them.
Agreed. That and gravel. Just ends up all over the lawn/flowerbed/etc. My drive is monoblocked.
Er, no.
Thanks for your very useful input. Now, go f*ck yourself.
Taa.
Er, yes. Plain cheap ugly slabs of concrete is for council estates. Compare these two:
I thought you scrubbed your slabs with a toothbrush?
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Where would we be without rhetorical questions?
That bog standard herringbone pattern is the one the local councils are putting on tenants drives around here.
Do you mean Block Pavers?
Yes, they are called many things. For example:
Typical council wasting money.
As you've posted an image of badly laid, old, broken, shaded slabs in a public area compared to a fairly new block paved area with a hideous blue Mercedes parked on it, it's quite obvious what answer you expect. They both look naff to me, one because it's block paving with a posers car on it, the other because it's badly laid and broken.
It's a patio not a driveway you pillock. I'm not even sure if the flags are actually concrete, they are very white and are not the same as the ones on footpaths. I had those crappy "monoblocks" on the drive at my last house. I fought the weeds for 18 years. I've seen a photo of your weed infested shithole drive Hucker. Very council estate - as you are
Even perfect slabs don't look nice. They're grey and large. The smaller and more colourful the pieces, the better it looks, which is why a mosaic floor like the Romans used is very nice.
I picked the first of each I found. There don't seem to be many examples of newly laid slabs, because they're s**te and nobody wants them. They get given away on freecycle constantly, as people upgrade their driveways.
Doesn't matter, there are much nicer things you can have there, consider upgrading to this:
That's a bit better.
Bleach kills weeds stone dead. And jetwash.
I'm too lazy/busy to clean it often.
No. Block Paviors.
You're either a snob or French, most call them block pavers:
Make a home brew cleaner - much stronger and does a really good job.
Sodium Hypochlorite (14%)
Lauryl Dimethylamine Oxide - (AKA Amine Oxide)
A suitable mix is 3L Hypo
9L water 300ml Aminesuds it up in a bucket. With a hose wet the patio, apply solution with a soft nylon sweeping brush (type used to wash caravans) work it in and leave ... keep it wet with more solution ... don't let it dry.
After 5 mins you will see all algae & staining lifting off .... go over with brush agitating it .... then after about 20min rinse off.
I found Bonnymans cheapest on-line stockists of the product.
A jetwash (using the narrow jet without a fancy attachment) cleans anything off anything instantly. Just don't try cleaning your tyres with it.
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