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Waterproofing your deck that you worked so hard to pay for or to build is something that most homeowners need to do to keep their deck in good condition over the years.  It will likely be used extensively and you want to keep it looking as good and as structurally sound as possible.  Mold and rotting can occur to decks that are not properly waterproofed, so the deck’s structural integrity is also under scrutiny.  Water from a pool or rain or snow can cause the water damage to your deck that you are trying to avoid, so applying a water sealant to the deck will help prevent all of this.

Waterproofing a new deck is not very different from waterproofing one that already exists on a property, but you should wait at least 30 days before you do, because the chemicals in the wood the deck was built with will need time to evaporate and the wood will need time to adjust to its new environment.  After you have waited a month, you can start waterproofing the deck. 

Clean off the entire deck and remove all furniture.  It should be made completely bare and free of all debris, including leaves, sticks, pool toys, and etcetera.  You can purchase a cleaner for the deck from most department stores.  Follow the directions and apply it with a pump sprayer.  When it starts foaming up, get a brush with stiff bristles and start scrubbing the surface of the deck firmly.  This will not only remove all the dirt and other buildup from the deck, but also help to remove stains such as grease.  After you are done, rinse all of the foam off with your garden hose or a few buckets of water.  When you are doing this, you should be wearing eye protection.

Applying the sealant will be done with a roller or a pump sprayer and if there are any puddles of the sealant on the deck, you will have to roll them out so that the sealant coats the deck evenly. 

Drilling a few small holes in your deck where water collects can also help further waterproof it.  This will let the water drain off of the deck in these areas.  They can be as big or as small as you want them to be, although 3/16 of an inch is about the smallest you can get that will allow for a decent amount of drainage. 

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Something that a lot parents hate and cannot understand these days are diseases and disorders that the medical community claim that they cannot do anything about at this point in time.  Parents become outraged when it happens to their child and the medical community says that there was nothing that they could have done to help or to prevent it from happening and this is the case with the occurrence we have come to call SIDS — Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. 

The term itself is a misnomer: it is not a “syndrome”.  It is the act of dying suddenly and inexplicably.  In European countries, it is also called “cot death”, since it is most commonly associated with babies that die in their cribs.  The health care system of the United States has said that there is no true explanation of why crib death occurs, but a man in New Zealand may have come up with an answer… over a decade ago.

A man in New Zealand has begun a crusade against crib death and has pointed to a very likely explanation for it. 

Most flame retardant mattresses contain one of three chemicals: antimony, arsenic, or phosphorus.  These chemicals are poisonous to us as human beings and you have to wonder why they are being put in our mattresses in the first place, much less in the mattress of an infant.

We all know that babies will get their mattresses and bedding wet from spilling milk, juice, urinating through their diapers, and etcetera, but what happens when these spills do not get cleaned up properly?  Mold can grow in mattresses just as easily as carpet or on wet clothing, but the difference is that when mold begins to grow in a mattress made with these poisonous chemicals, they (like anything else on the planet that digests things) secrete gases.  Since mold is consuming poisonous chemicals, is it not safe to say that these gases are also poisonous?  An infant sleeping on its stomach and breathing in these gases would probably die, right?  It is a fact that less babies have died since the advice was given to sleep a child on his or her back instead of on their stomach. 

His advice says to not re-use an old baby mattress, but to buy a new one when you have another child because the instances of crib death have shown to increase with the more children you have.  It is more common in children that are the 2^nd, 3^rd, and so on in their family.

Special mattress wraps can also be purchased out of New Zealand for less than $50.

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