Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Deck & Ants

This is the old dirty, grey colored deck before I cleaned it with the special deck cleaner to revive old wood before staining.
Hard to tell...but clean new looking wood ready for stain.
If you find ants in your house this is the best stuff to get rid of them instantly. Libby had some in her closet, so I stripped everything off the floor in her room, vacuumed the carpet and baseboards and sprayed this all around the baseboards. It doesn't have a very nice smell so we opened the window, turned her fan on high and shut her door for most of the day. She slepted in our room and the room was good to go today. And no ants to be found anywhere...that was immediately after I sprayed.
I use to use that sticky stuff you would leave for the ants and they would eat it and take it back to their anthill and kill everyone...but that is too hard to use with kids who may want to taste the sticky ant killer.

2 comments:

Carly said...

Don't stain it!!! I stained the front in the fall and the steps are all worn off!!!! thompson water seal instead.

Yukes said...

Did you have solid stain or transparent stain. Duane said solid wears off like paint....transparent just fades over time....