Cleaning White Plastic Sun Loungers

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Cleaning White Plastic Sun Loungers

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Our complex has some white plastic sun loungers, but I use the colour white loosely as they have years of ground in dirt making them nearer to grey! As we will be here for quite a long visit we thought that we would try to clean them up a bit, Lots of advice on t'internet, but it is too hot to be experimenting with all the different suggestions! Can anyone can recommend a tried and proven way of doing it? We are assuming that lots of elbow grease will be required, so really we just need to know what to use.

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When I had some white plastic garden furniture, I used to wash them with water that had some bleach in it. It used to make them look pretty good without much effort. I think the bleach kept working after I had rinsed it off - you know how bleach clings on like mad. It's not going to get any ingrained dirt out, but it seemed to work pretty well. I used the same trick on the uPVC windowsills as well.
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Elbow grease in this heat?

Why not chuck them in the pool and let the chlorine do the work for you.
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I think that has a tendency to turn the pool green though, panoscouse ;-)
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I would put a sheet over the lounger and just lay on that. It wouldn't get so hot then, either.
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When we had this problem, I used a power washer, with the nozzel set on wide, worked a treat, just blasted the grime off.
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Some interesting suggestions so far! I am tempted by the suggestion to just throw them in the pool but think I might get a few complaints from others in the complex who seem content to lie on increasingly filthy sunloungers! Sadly, I think they are beyond washing with bleach, and my jet wash is in Yorkshire, which is a shame as I think that might work. Road Warrior - you say the Magic Erasers are available in the East. Where exactly do you mean? Now that you have mentioned them, I may be able to find what you are referring to in Paphos though.

Any other suggestions will be welcomed.
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Magic Erasers are available in supermarkets and Jumbo.
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My wife is usually looking for a reason to visit Jumbo so thank you for the suggestion Memory Man
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D&PG wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:57 pm My wife is usually looking for a reason to visit Jumbo so thank you for the suggestion Memory Man
Isn't the piped music reason enough?
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If that white plastic garden furniture has taken a green mouldy tinge to it, my daughter swears by Milton, a solution used for sterilizing baby bottles. Also works well on stone slab patios, etc, apparently...

http://www.milton-tm.com/en

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I sometimes wonder... I tend to sit outside the Supermarket near the entrance and she comes to find me when she is done.
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Hi I used a brillo pad on mine,came up like brand new.
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Great idea about the Brillo pads. I will give it a try. The Milton sounds promising too but with half a dozen loungers I think I would need to buy it by the barrel
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