Toxic soup
Over the past week I have been stripping a deck in preparation for staining.This has got to be the nastiest job I have ever done.The fist step is to spray sodium hydroxide on it and then scub the hell out of it. This creates a toxic soup that gets everywhere.After rinsing off this toxic morrass it must be nuetralised with oxcilic acid.While this doesn’t appear to be as bad for you as the lye it wil still give you some very nice chemical burns if you get it on you. Finaly you get to sand everything which kicks all the dried acid into the air for you to breathe.Thank god for respirators! But at last this stage of the project is done and tomorrow we will apply the stain.
