I have a few minutes to blog before The Governor wakes and The Senator returns home from a birthday party.
I had all kinds of things I wanted to write about today. But right now the only thing I can think about is that while tile is beautiful...grout sucks. With all the technology that exists today, somebody can't come up with something a little easier to keep clean than grout?
When I win the lottery, we're replacing every bit of tile with CorianTM. Maybe concrete. Anything without grout.
And while I'm on the topic of miserably wretched things to clean...the next thing to go are the venetian blinds. What a royal pain in the *ss these things are. Rip 'em down! I'm thinking "shower curtains." Easy to put up and at $2 a pop, replaceable whenever they get dirty or you want to change your color scheme.
To finish my grumbling, I will add that I am not very pleased that a family (or tribe or flock or however they congregate) of wasps has made its home under the shutters outside the bathroom window. They are not fond of Windex,
I hope you all are having a fine day.
Posted by Cathy at September 3, 2003 01:57 PMWasps - spray them with hair spray. Even spraying the nest will keep them away for a while, as it takes so long for hairspray to dry on a paper wasp nest. I don't know why - I think it reacts to something in the saliva in the nest?
Venetian blinds - take them down, throw them in the tub with some soapy water. Takes ten minutes, tops.
I've thought about installing old-fashioned, working shutters on the insides of my windows - I really like the look and if I get sick of them I can put them up outside. At the moment we have some pretty nice blind treatments - they're not plastic, but fabric in an accordian-style. But they're a real bitch to clean - makes venetian blinds look like a cake walk. But they're dyeable, so I can't complain too much.
When my grout gets nasty I sand it out and put in new. It's saved me a lot of back-breaking labor trying to clean the stuff...the new stuff stays looking really great for about a year and half, while older grout needs to be well-scrubbed about once a month. With the new stuff I can get away with just spraying it down with scrubbing bubbles or Tilex.
Posted by: natalie at September 3, 2003 09:33 PM