Do you need to rinse off soap?
Sara Idenfors
Soap is "known" for being slippery, and sure, if you leave a lot of soap on a floor, it will become slippery—but so will a lot of anything else left on the floor ;)
However, soap contains fat, and if you leave a lot of fatty soap on a plastic floor, it can become slippery. You can solve this by wiping it up, or by wiping the floor once more with just warm water and 1–2 drops of dish soap in the bucket.
Natural materials such as wood and stone benefit from fatty soap and absorb the excess fat in the soap. A plastic floor does not, and does not need to be re-greased.
Do you have to rinse the deck after scrubbing it with soap and before treating it?
If you have removed a lot of algae, lichen, and other dirt that remains on the surface, you should rinse if possible. Otherwise, place a scrubbing cloth over a deck brush, rinse it, and wipe away everything you scrubbed loose.
If it is a new and relatively clean deck, you do not need to rinse between scrubbing it with soap and treating it.
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Questions and answers
Questions and answers
1. Do you have to rinse off the soap?
Answer: Yes, if you have a lot of soap on the surface or have scrubbed loose a lot of dirt that remains on the surface.
2. Do you have to rinse the deck after scrubbing it with soap?
Answer: Only if you see a lot of loose dirt that came off during scrubbing.
3. Does a new and clean deck need to be rinsed?
Answer: No, usually not.
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