Grandmother tips to clean her concrete terrace

Comment Clean your concrete terrace And eliminate dirt? Like wood or tiling, this coating requires regular care. How to do and which product to use? In collaboration with Jacques de Maniaques.fr, we give you all the advice for impeccable results!

How to degrade your concrete terrace in three lessons

Error number 1: Clean at the feeling

«Well, cleaning your concrete terrace is not essential». Or «it’s cake». And hop! You spread all advice and tips with a big back of hand. You maintain this space between house and garden, with a lot of cleaning productsand only if necessary. Salting, foam and other tasks on this coating, you do your business! After all, concrete is the most robust and easy to maintain!

STOP ! Even if the desire to turn on the barbecue or install the deckchair encourages you to burn the steps, Each spring makes cleaning useful of your concrete terrace. Winter brings its share of assaults and well -maintained concrete promises you much better to take advantage of it.

Error number 2: cleaning with a big blow of bleach

«It’s so practical! »Under this beautiful sun, with a good brush broom, eliminating all traces whistling, with a cleaning product based on bleach or ammonia… Your concrete slabs will never have been so clean with this disinfectant …

STOP ! What you would earn is a risk of poisoning with the bleeding of heat in heat, an increasingly porous and rough terrace (if you have smooth concrete), and plants in your garden in agony. Bleach is no, broom!

Error number 3: rub, rub and put the pressure well!

You feel the form of a professional curling player and you have your broom brush to use the coating.

How ? Use concrete? But it is not possible !!!

When the hours are hot and your arms tire, you even take out your powerful weapon, your high pressure cleanertype Core. Closer to the surface of your terrace, you can only be effective.

STOP ! Concrete is a porous material! And if your terrace has been protected by a varnish or other technique, you make it porous again and more and more. Result: less in less sparkle, more and more enclosure you will then fight the dirt of your terrace even more often instead of lounging it.

Look at your surface more closely

Under the name of concrete, your terrace may present different textures More or less demanding in maintenance and cleaning. With the progress of the techniques, perhaps do not yourself have the certainty of concrete yourself … So let’s make a small point.

The terrace in raw concreteis the one that naturally comes to your mind, cement color. It is the one that undergoes the most degradation due to time and bad weather. It blackens, dumped with green foam, hydrocarbon residues, etc. Rest assured, Even encrusted dirt has their solutions.

In smooth concretethe soft and immaculate surface makes you fear the moment of cleaning? Let Nenni, we are here!

The concrete printedas for it, can be colored, take the appearance of cobblestones, slabs or even imitate wood. It may have been waterproofed, but you are never immune to a glass of overturned wine or Tobby damage, adorable, but agitated.

The Concrete deactivated or washedhe is the one who leaves this grainy impression, unpleasant barefoot, but ultra practical not to risk a precipitated dive in the pool. Its appearance makes it very convenient, but it is not immune to dirt. A little tip and let’s not talk about it anymore …

You have succumbed to the charm of a draining concrete terrace to sip your best summer drinks, with bamboo straw? Rest assured, it will remain impeccable with natural products and methods.

Whatever the concrete of your terrace, already assess if it is varnished. This will not change cleaning, but will tell you if you can consider additional protection to space the maintenance.

All these coatings are the prey of black spots due to pollution and bad weather and green tasks(seaweed, mold, etc.).

Natural products or when granny had already understood everything

Elbow oil, there is only that of real … and two or three tips to make life easier.

The survival kit of your concrete terrace comes down to a few essentials that you already have. Ecological and economicthe results are there for an impeccable concrete terrace.

Black soap and Marseille soap, natural house

Opt for a natural detergent product which is neither the concrete nor the stone of your external soil. Black soap is your ally for a maintained concrete floor. Wooden or tiled terraces love it just as much.

Ultimate tip:These products are enemies of dirt on your terrace and best friends in your vegetable garden. Pierre Savonnée does not bring foam, but helps your plants stay healthy.

Soda bicarbonate, inseparable from cleaning

How not to mention the baking soda ?

It is the king of cleaning products all categories combined, terraces included … The featherweight of the cupboards for a strong maous effect. You quote it with your eyes closed for cleaning all surfaces … It does not intoxicate you and overcome (almost) all dirt.

Eliminate the grounds on the ground with the soda crystals

For a more dirty coating Adopt the soda crystals to eliminate all tasks and easy cleaning. These crystals are worthy of great power. Your concrete slabs will thank you, while your gaze will arise on them with satisfaction under the sun of a summer breakfast

Percarbonate, some indications

The canvas is full of good tips, including the use of Percarbonate for cleaning concrete walls and terraces. With a formidable efficiency, this solid oxygenated water (bleach without chlorine of his little nickname), note all the same that he has a higher pH than bicarbonate. It makes raw concrete whiter, MOREWe invite you to be careful for use on colored concrete.

Modern products that have a good garden side

If Mamie Jeanine is right about many things, she will also be delighted to hear you boast her the progress of household products on this magnificent very clean terrace.

Today, many products are developing solutions against tasks, mosses and lichens . The results are very rapidand the products are easy to use.

They dilute or are already ready to use, spray and overcome the slightest stain.

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My long user experience and my advice mission encourage me to awaken your talents of small children in the choice of these products. Pay attention to

• so-called ecological products;
• User manuals to be respected in the handling and use of products;
• types of surfaces to be treated.

Most manufacturers recommend additional use of their product to regular maintenance all 2 to 3 years oldand preferably in the spring. The product has a action progressive. For the whole family, cleaning the concrete terrace will ring the start of the outdoor season. And Viva la Limpieza (cleanliness in Spanish)

And if we can afford here, between us, we prefer make the skin with dirt while preserving our beautiful garden planet. So we notice manufacturers like Guard industryFrench company that offers environmentally friendly solutions! (And I am not at all sponsored by the Guard cleaner…)

That said, you now have your tool kit. But then, how to clean this beautiful concrete terrace?

Good gestures for maintenance of the entire concrete surface

The swallows come back and they announce the maintenance of your concrete terrace. As for wooden terraces, A minimum care is necessary .

1. A good broomOr a blower to see more clearly.
2. Clean the stains of mold . Yes, that’s normal. Winter has brought its humidity, sun, dirt while you hibernate.

3. Mix A little baking soda in a bucket of hot water added with a black soap cap (or Marseille soap). RubUsing a brush and don’t forget to RINSE .

Why then will you tell me? To stop the detergent reaction (even natural) and let your concrete breathe! No need to drown your terrace underwater, it will not be cleaner!

For more dirty places, reserve the soda crystals.

We can also read suggestions on the internet with citric acid against foam tasks. But beware! Your concrete may not appreciate it! Acidity can attack your coating And the results will be disappointing.

Do you have a brand new karcher type cleaner? Come on … you can take out your overpowered cleaner … but beware of pressure. Not too strong and the nozzle far enough from the surface. So happy?

And a little mop according to the types of concrete to eliminate residues.

Clean your concrete terrace: specific stains

A family and BIM meal! A small accident leaves a trace on your freshly cleaned concrete. Soda bicarbonate is the versatile solution and the practical tip.

• Sprinkle On the task like strawberries in summer …
• Leave A few minutes.
• Do not scratch Your pretty smooth concrete with a metal tool.
• Rub Simply with a sponge (or a small flexible brush).

If you have used all your bicarbonate, you have clay stone or Sommières land…

Acid spots

A soda or a beer that is overturned, and damn, it is the drama. Acids leave traces you don’t need. To keep the souvenirs of parties without spots, two solutions:

1. You react at the moment By rinsing the crime scene with great water.
2. You have not attended the drama and you Catch the incident with a magic paste(Homemade natural product composed only of grated Marseille + water soap) placed in poultice on bruised concrete.

DEXTER mode stains

They concern spots urine, blood or excrement . I know, said like that, we borders on the genre of horror film. However, your concrete terrace can also witness many dramas: bicycle falls, learning the cleanliness of the little puppy and other incredible adventures of swallows. And the brush broom will be released again.

Solution :Brush + hot water + dishwasher powder (or wildly grinding a pastille) + rinse with light water sponge.

The fatty stain on your concrete surface

If repairing your bike, it is more comfortable on the concrete terrace either. No pressure! The consequences may not be so fatal for the coating. And in case:

Solution : 1 tea cup of soda crystals for 1 liter of hot water + a sponge (if fresh task) or brush (if encrusted) + rinse with light water + renew if necessary.

And if your child pours oil on the head (lived story), take out the cupboard flour (but not to make the pancakes).

Solution :Sprinkle the flour on the task + let absorb 20 minutes + remove the material + renew the flour + clean according to the above principle without forgetting to rinse.

These tips in your pocket, find the floor of your concrete terrace, more radiant than ever. And smile modestly to the question: «But how do you clean your terrace?» ». Yes, any spot has its ideal cleaning solution, with just the right tip and a little elbow oil. But that already knew it.