Looking for a quick way to clean garden paths and the driveway outside your home? This simple DIY method will help you not just clean, but also maintain your driveway and garden paths.
Cleaning Paths and Driveways – And Keeping Them Clean
Outdoor surfaces like driveways, garden paths and pool surrounds are often constructed out of porous masonry materials. These materials include:
- Concrete
- Sandstone
- Stone
- Tiles and grout
- Terracotta
- Bricks.
With exposure to water, weather, use, and the surrounding environment, these porous surfaces take on many forms of cosmetic and structural degradation. Common signs include moss, algae, mould, dirt, grime, efflorescence and staining from fallen vegetation, food, oil or other matter.
There are a number of ways to clean these surfaces, each with benefits and considerations of their own. However, cleaning these surfaces is only the beginning; they must be maintained and protected otherwise the surface will deteriorate once again.
We will outline how to clean and maintain these surfaces in detail, below.