Has anyone solved this decking problem

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Sorry if this is long, but really hoping someone can help. Had a large area of decking down for about 8 years, its had various treatment on it, and now looking really tatty. It is very patchy with some area down to the wood. A couple of year back I sanded it all down but it is still patchy. I've tried a woodstain to even up the patches which looked better but only lasted a few months. All the decking rescue paint get rubbish reviews. Has anyone used anything that actually works.

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Scrub with some diluted washing powder solution or pressure wash it.

Solved the problem with mine by taking it up and burning :)

Put composite decking down and not wood.

Or turn it over. The smooth side is much easier to clean, less slippery and seems to be the thing in the rest of the world. Weird how the UK uses the grooved side.

decking is a silly idea in the UK climate - ok, I know it hasn't rained in some time but we do have damp spells not months of mediterranean summer.

rip it up and dispose of it when the tip opens.

Is it not best to put chicken wire over it or something to stop it being slippy?

You get something called wet and forget from amazon. I'd lather it with that.

We inherited some awful decking. We did the washing powder with a sriff broom and jet washer.
The once dry we did away with stain and used Ronseal Deck paint in grey - can't recall the actual proper name but it was Ronseal.
It looks grey not like wood. We give it one new coat every year. 5 years on it still.lools good. It has bought us a few extra years. Long term though the wooden deck will go. Not sure what we will pit in its place as composite is so expensive.

Thanks for the replies, the turning the boards over might be worth a try.

And I would love composite decking, but would cost about £4000, yhe picture you see is only about a third of it.

Choose a time when the decking is wet. Get dairy hypochlorite (cheapest way to buy bleach) and dilute it (about one in three) in a watering can and sprinkle it generously on the wet planks. Leave for a few hours and pressure wash it off. Kills all slime and algae and looks like driftwood. I do it once a year around March/now. And before everyone shouts it will kill the grass and the plants - it doesn’t. I’ve been doing it for years without problems.