Teh fumes eated my brain

[crowhen]

We closed on the house on the 10th. I tidied up all my personal projects prior to closing braced for it: nonstop painting

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[lemmings_world]

Odo-Ban works really well for pet smells, it's got a eucalyptus scent that can be overpowering at first but dissipates very quickly.

[crowhen]

Where do you find it?

[lemmings_world]

I think we got ours from Sam's Club, if memory serves. I checked the website and it's saying places like Walmart and the like:

http://www.odoban.com/OdoBanRetail/Locator.html

You can buy it online at places like Amazon, but you have to buy two HEOUGE jugs of it at a time, and hopefully the stink isn't that bad.

[shadefell]

This is pretty much my weekend in a nut shell. :)

We're moving into an apartment, the building of which is owned by my husband's family. It's about 100 years old and was in very bad shape before they bought it (in the 80s), and the previous set of tenants treated the place very shabbily. We're eventually going to gut the place, strip out all the hideously damaged plaster and lathe and put up drywall, but that would take far too long to do, so we're just painting.

It's going to look great when we're done, but man, I'm getting really tired of it.

[torgoknees4life]

This is probably a silly question: but how do you handle dry-cleaning with an ironing board?

I mean, I know there's an iron in that equation too, but I'm still very confused. And if it's a major money-saving tip, then I definitely want to know! lol.

--Lauren*

[torgoknees4life]

By the way, you can get the cat pee smell out with a product called "Nature's Miracle." You can get it at most pet stores (at least around here...) or online. It's chock fulla enzymes and it works really well--and DOESN'T just cover up the smell with an overpowering odor (like most odor "removers"). If the pee smell is really bad or REALLY sunk in there, it may take a few applications, but it totally works. My family had the same problem with our house when we first moved in and it worked wonders. And then we always keep a bottle of it around "just in case" because we had a TON of beds and sometimes "accidents happen."

Hope it helps!

--L*

[torgoknees4life]

we have* a TON of pets*

lol.

Apologies. I've been having trouble with LBS myself.

[crowhen]

Joe sends his business shirts to the dry cleaners, mostly because in our apartment I do not have the facilities properly wash them and spend all say ironing them. With the new place, I have a washing machine I can actually control (instead of sticking quarters in and praying they hooked up the proper hoses in the back or all my cottons get shrunk) plus an ironing board with a tiny arm meant for doing sleeves. Just sleeves. Can you imagine

[thedalaimama]

Hey, Chiclet, mom is way proud of you. The great thing about primer/sealer is that the fumes clear out fairly quickly with major ventilation. Yeah, hate the beige. To me it just looks like dirty white.

Any way you can rent a uhaul truck, or even a trailer for Joe's truck, for the really big items? Remember us moving the biggies with friend's pickup and trailer? Even the fridge went on that load. You could always rent a couple guys for the toting.

[crowhen]

At that rate, we'll just hire Two Guys and a Truck. They bring the truck and haul the stuff and you pay them by the hour. Meantime, we have two weeks to paint the bedroom and my office and haul things piecemeal in our vehicles (my smart car has volunteered to carry loads of all my reference books every day I go to work). Let's see if we can get it down to just a few delicate large items by the 25th :)

[rosalarian]

Ugh, beige. Beige was what drove me from my old apartment into my nice rainbow house. Beige can go curl up and die in a corner somewhere. A beige-ey corner of death.

[crowhen]

Is it wrong that I'm even painting the closets? The ugly beige is everywhere! I don't want to open the closet and have it leap out at me in the morning like a tobacco-stained banshee.