Soap is "known" to be slippery, and sure, if you leave a lot of soap on a floor, it will be slippery, but that's also true if you leave a lot of anything else 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 solve that by: wiping it up. Or by wiping the floor again with just hot 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 do that and does not need to be re-greased.
Do you have to rinse the decking after you've soaped it and before you treat it?
Yes, if you have loosened a lot of algae and lichens and other dirt that is lying on the surface, then you need to rinse if possible, otherwise, take a scrub cloth over a floor brush, rinse it, and wipe away everything you have scrubbed loose.
If it is a new and relatively clean deck, you do not need to rinse between soap scrubbing and treatment.
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Questions and answers
Questions and answers
1. Do you have to rinse off soap?
Answer: Yes, if you have a lot of soap on the surface or have scrubbed off a lot of dirt that is left on the surface.
2. Do you have to rinse the decking after you've soaped it?
Answer: Only if you see a lot of loose dirt that has come loose during scrubbing.
3. Does a new and clean deck need to be rinsed?
Answer: No, usually not.
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