And that is a man for you! Seriously now, who writes these directions? Better yet, in what strange land do they live? -------------- Original message from "Dianne" <[email protected]>: -------------- > Oct. 30, 2001 > > THE DECK > Well, we decided to re-stain the house and deck this week. The house is cedar wood and so is the deck. So we just have to apply this outer coat of wood > presevative. Doesn't that sound simple? > First we have to buy 25 gallons of bleach, to bleach the deck and the house to remove mildew and the old dead color. You simply spray this on with a 2 gallon spray can. You should only do this when the wind is not blowing at you. Unfortunately we had a little wind the day I am spraying the deck rails, I had to resort to a pair of safety glasses and old clothes. This took only about 3 days. Then you try to get the wood presevative on the deck before the dog has re deposited all his hair onto the deck. So you get your glasses and read the directions. " Do not roll on, do not spray on, use a brush only." ( ok, I can do that) do not apply when the temperature is below 58 degrees, do not apply in the sun, do not apply to hot wood, do not apply when wind is blowing, do not > apply if temperatures will fall below 58 degrees in the next 24 hours, do not > apply if sun will heat applied area within 24 hours.. Ok, that did it for me, > just WHEN do you think would be a good time to do t! > his? My husband and I just said the heck with it, and merrily applied this > crap, every so often I would ask, do you think the sun is too hot here? He > says, "I don't think so", or I would say, "Do you think it will fall below 58 > degrees tonight?" He says, I don't think so" that was his famous line for > everything. Every morning he would get up at 5 a.m. and let me know when it was > at least 58 degrees (sometimes not till about 10 a.m.). We had been at this for > about a week, and then on the last section of deck, > (today) it decides to rain 3 inches in one hour. So the last piece will have > to wait until we can dry it out for a while. So while it rained, I washed my > jelly jars getting ready for our next adventure called "Making Pomegranate > Jelly" > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message