All hands on deck before sailing off into the summer

A little scrubbing and refinishing are all you need to get that decking in ship-shape for outdoor living. Kya deLongchamps gets us on board

Nothing shows us up like a forgotten area of decking flat out in the May sunshine

Lashed by unrelenting soft, wet weather, we have a gene-level distrust of every limb and plank of wood kept outdoors.