How can you NOT stop to get two glasses of T-Rex lemonade? What a hoot!
I feel it's so important to patronize any venture like this a child is running. I've been an entrepreneur my entire life and it's situations like this where we cut our teeth.
Please always STOP and support the budding entrepreneur!
Do you have an interesting lemonade-stand story? Share it with me.
My Condo Consult Adventure
A few days ago I completed a three-hour consult at a small condo complex here in New Hampshire. This building is located less than three miles from where the Piscataqua River flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
You can ignore the following advice if you live in the Atacama Desert. If you live ANYWHERE else, even far away from an ocean or sea, keep reading.
One of the things I spotted was significant rusting of some black-iron gas lines under two porches. I also spotted lots of rusty fire-sprinkler piping and fittings.
If you live near an ocean or sea, you really need to make sure any metal (deck joist hangers, nails, screws, structural support columns, i-beams, etc.) exposed to salt air is always painted. The video above shows you a particular paint that really does well in salt-air environments.
You should always keep gas piping painted, especially any exposed threads where the pipe meets a fitting.
It's important to realize when we plumbers cut threads on pipe we REMOVE metal where you see the small valleys in the threads. The pipe wall is thinner in these v-shaped depressions and they're the FIRST PLACE the pipe is going to rust through!
Always clean the pipe well, and if the pipe was recently threaded, brush some mineral spirits on the cut threads to remove any cutting oil before you think about painting them.
Be sure to READ the label on the paint can.
Do what you need to do to rub off any significant rust from the metal or pipe, make it dust-free, then prime it with a great metal primer. Two hours later apply the finish paint.
You want to apply the finish paint as soon as the primer it tack-free as you'll get a superior bond between the finish paint and the primer.
How to Clean Composite Decking
Do you wonder about how to SAFELY clean composite decking? Michelle did and she reached out to me to ask if STAIN SOLVER was the best cleaner for her composite deck.
The answer is a big YES. Here's a Trex Transcend composite deck. I eat lunch under the umbrella anytime it's nice WX. I use STAIN SOLVER to clean the decking when it gets dirty.
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