Fabienne Micheline Cassman on tue 14 aug 01
Greetings everyone :)
What follows is not very scientific, but I thought I could share it. The
task was to spray the wall of my kiln with ITC; however, I was not about to
dismantle it and haul it up the stairs of the basement piece by piece to
the great outdoors by myself. I decided to create a tent around the kiln.
Since the basement is unfinished, I did not have to worry about denting
walls and ceilings which is certainly an advantage. I bought the thickest
possible plastic roll that is used to line floors while painting
rooms. The biggest roll of duct tape available and replenished my heavy
duty stapler.
I cut one piece out for the ceiling and one for floor of the tent keeping
in my that I would need room to stand in it with my bucket while
spraying. I stapled the tent ceiling to the beams and let at least a foot
and a half dangle on the sides. I spread the tent floor under the kiln
stand and duct taped it to the stand well above the floor so the liquid, if
any, would not run out. The rest of the plastic was stapled and duct taped
to the outside of the tent ceiling and duct taped inside the tent floor
making sure that there was at least a foot and a half overlap between all
the edges including the entrance to keep the particles out as best as possible.
I used goggles and a breathing mask while spraying; I intend to keep my
eyes and lungs a while longer :) As the spraying took place, the "fog" was
getting thicker and thicker. When done, I snuck out to let the "fog"
settle and laundered my clothing.
I have yet to replace the elements and spray again. I plan on collapsing
the tent while still wet which should avoid stirring dust and out the
garbage can; I'll wet it if I have to.
I am sure some ITC got in the room if only by my snicking out of it, but
most of it is in the tent right now. Good thing I only have to do this
once in eons.
Usual disclaimer here, use this method at your own risk.
Fabienne
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I can reproduce them exactly.
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