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Balling
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13th Mar 13 at 13:15   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
We have a diamond plate floor, aluminium I assume, on our balcony and it looks terrible. Cleaning it with soap and water makes little difference.

Most of the products/advice I can find are for small areas and it's going to take a lifetime as well as cost a small fortune in products to do our whole balcony floor.

I'd prefer to cover it up but as we rent I can't make any permanent changes and I don't want to spend too much money on it either.
Ideas for ways to cheaply cover it are welcome too.
Gary
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13th Mar 13 at 14:25   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Put the time in with some metal polish then paint a lacquer over the top?
Balling
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Can you laquer raw aluminium? How would that be to keep?

I think the metal polish is going to be a bitch due to the nature of the diamond plate. Polishing between all the raised bits is going to take forever.
Also seems like quite a bit of manual labour...

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13th Mar 13 at 15:07   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Get the Mrs on with it then, or just paint over it with some grey floor paint.
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Get some alloy wheel cleaner, that should clean it up nicely
Jay
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Can't you put decking over it? A mate of mine done this on his balcony cause he didn't like the tiles, looked good, pulled it when he left
Seany
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Steam clean it then use baby oil on it for a nice shine.
baza31
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I'd remove the balcony
ash_corsa
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Machine polish?
pow
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Mate of mine made a removable deck for a balcony he had at his flat in Leeds
Ludacris Turbo
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Iron x and a scrubbing brush.

 
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