I wash mine each weekend at home. The more often you clean them up, the easier it is to get clean. Once the build up of grass grime gets on everything, it is very hard to get off. This winter I'm going to have the deck on my old Chopper sandblasted and re-paint the deck and put all new decals on the stainless steel to make it look like new again. If my equipment isn't new, I try to make it look new. I figure after all the hours of service it's given me, it deserves a face lift. It will hit 3,000 hours next week, but I've seen mowers with 50 hours on it that didn't look as good.<p>----------<br><a href="http://elmlawnsite.com/">Eric@ELM</a><br>