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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Late Summer Clean Up

Becky is the president of the neighborhood association. Every year the Boosters, as the association is called, has a block party. She had the block party planning committee meeting at our house. Sprucing up for the party I cleaned the patio furniture.
I used a product called Jomax. It is a cleaning chemical that is mixed with water and bleach. Jomax is easy to apply with a garden type sprayer. When I was a painter I always used this stuff to get rid of the mildew, the scale and cobwebs and such, as the first step of preparation to paint.
The photo of the white chair before and after pretty much tells it.
I once picked up one of the black chairs and a giant spider came scrambling out of one of the spaces underneath that serve as supports. It had a nest there. On the top side the chair looked clean enough. I could imagine the event of one such spider crawling out on a neighbor.
This is a photo of my cleaning pump sprayer taken apart, cleaned and drying. I don't use this sprayer for garden chemicals and I don't use my garden sprayer for cleaning chemicals. This sprayer did not cost much and it is now at least 8 years old but it still works good as new.

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