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Speaking of plastic plant labels does anyone have a way to remove the writing off them?
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fine emery paper or wet & dry. Failing that soak them in bleach for a a few days then attack with a scouring pad.
Cleans you hands as well
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Lesley Jay, I use an erazer on mine.
And when your back stops aching,
And your hands begin to harden.
You will find yourself a partner,
In the glory of the garden.
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Hi Peter,
Yes it is, hence my warning about it being toxic. If you wear gloves and paint it on with a brush it's fine, only toxic if you drink, pour into eyes or rub it onto your skin everyday and leave over night to sink in. Our guys wear the latex surgeon gloves that PigletWillie was talking about but only because they are thinner and mean you can do fiddly tasks in them, washing up gloves will do. If you paint the wood with it and leave it to dry it soaks into the wood like any oil, very very good and much much cheaper than the 'environmentaly friendly' stuff that is packaged into throw away plastic or metal tins with printed paper labels and stacked on shelves in large 'Q&B' warehouses which have to be heated. I think that covers Reduce and Re-use but maybe not Recycle
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Hate to go back to the carpets but think common sense has to prevail. The fibres they are constructed from are cleaned in chemicals. They are dyed in chemical dyes. They are treated with chemicals to make them stain resistant. And once in peoples homes probably sprayed with chemicals to clean/ deodorise them. If people choose to have them in their homes I can understand that. We all use chemical products in one form or another. But would we really choose to eat food grown on ground we know to be "manured" with the chemicals from carpets. Surely the object of growing your own is to get away from that kind of chemical pollution.
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I dont have any carpets in the house, regardless of the chemicals they are laden with billions of dust mites and all sorts of crap that you cant hoover out. At home its wooden floors or tiles, easy to clean, look good and not an allergy, breathing problem or other modern ailment in the family.Comment
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If it is pencil just use a one of those sponge/scourer combination thingies and warm water.Originally posted by Lesley JayAlways thank people who have helped you immediately, as they may not be around to thank later.
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If I remember correctly, Bob Flowerdew has now changed his mind re. carpets. Now considers them bad medicine due to noxious chemicals etc.
Amateur Gardener last year sometime.Comment
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Ditto Piglet. We do not have any carpets in the house and find that it discourages sneezing and encourages more frequent cleaning. Easier to broom-sweep a room than get the hoovy out.Originally posted by pigletwillie
Also invested in leather furniture for much the same reason. Dog fur does not stick to wooden floors or leather sofa!Comment
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I scrub mine with one of those small square sponge pan scrubbers & some fairy liquid LJ.Originally posted by Lesley Jay
Into every life a little rain must fall.Comment
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I remember that as well hils, but then I think he changed his mind back again a few weeks later (probably after someone from the 'carpet marketing board' contacted himOriginally posted by hils
) & decided that as the carpet he had was mostly made from pure wool & old & worn that it would still be O.K. for covering his compost heaps etc.
On the issue of wooden floors-does your dog like them? I suppose if they are real wood it is O.K. but my sister-in-law had laminate floors put in & their dog was terrified of them, she kept running into the room, skidding across the floor & running out again for weeks- left a nice selection of claw marks on the way!
Into every life a little rain must fall.Comment
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We have real wood floors and yes the dogs did find it a tad difficult at first but have now developed a smart technique; something akin to rally drivers sliding around corners without actually turning the car. Probably the scratch marks gave them a little more grip.
Can be quite amusing if they need to get up speed 'moy pronto'. Much expenditure of energy but going nowhere fast.
It has however, put the local cats off poking their noses in our house, the noise of 8 legs and attendant claws scrabbling to get at them must be a total nightmare.Comment
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You're lucky then Hils, real wooden floors just look 'characterful' with a few scratches- laminate just look a mess!
Into every life a little rain must fall.Comment
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Wow. .......the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.
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