Depending on what the brush killer contains, it will take a minimum of 3-5 days before you see any effects of the Round-up, and may take 7-10 days. If what you did doesn't do the job, try the same technique, but set a small bowl of full strength Round-up on the ground and stick the freshly cut ends of the vines leading back to the root in the bowl. Leave it for a day so it can take up more of the herbicide. If you want to use a brush to paint the leaves, add a couple drops of mild dish soap to the Round-up before you paint the leaves as that will help cut the wax and get the herbicide into the plant. If using a concentrated solution, it really doesn't take much to knock things out.

Jetted tubs will definitely feel stronger because the pump is moving the water where the sanijet and air tubs only move air. The Sanijet moves water but not by a central pump circulating the water, only through the jets themselves. The air tubs only move air so no water to stay in the lines and stagnate. To avoid future cleaning issues I would recommend you research this site's many comments/threads on these tubs and ask a lot of questions.

Hi Marge, My sister had 2 single mattresses here from when she lived in our home while hers was being renovated (for 9 months!)(DH and I lived in the UK at that time and I told her to stay at the house with my Mom...we were on good terms at that time). She 'reminded me' when we had a family conference call over the estate stuff about the mattresses. I told her to come and get them before the end of October - otherwise I would stuff them in my garden shed. She is a clean freak so I knew she'd get over here quick to take 'her mattresses' home. At the same conference call I suggested I pack everything up and send it over to her house since my other sister stays with her when she visits now and that way everyone can look at the stuff to see what they want. So I packed it all up and put in on the front lawn for her when she picked up her mattresses. She has no reason anymore to access my home. She's not interested either - DH and I will not let her through the door and she knows this. So that matter is now closed. We have moved on to now with the paperwork to open a new estate account to begin consolidating the financial accounts into one single account and it requires both of our signatures for any payments to be made. We are waiting the confirmation from the bank's estate office to know it's been done. We are also obtaining an accountant to do the final tax return. Progress is being made. It's embarrassing to go to the bank with her - she has an attitude, barely speaks with the staff helping us - thinking they are all stupid and her hostile mood is apparent. When we've finished she just ups and leaves - no thank you for helping us today, no handshake. My mother/father have not raised us like this. It's embarrassing to say the least. I always thank the staff and shake their hand. When this is all over for my Mother's estate, we are both the power of attorney and executors for my great aunt who is now 96. So I will still have to deal with her on that account. I don't trust her at all. She doesn't trust me. I just suck it up and treat everything like business when dealing with her. I've stopped losing sleep over her and leave her to her 'own miserable world'. She hasn't truly been happy ever since I can remember. Originally it was the bank and my sister as co-executors. I told my Mom I did not trust Kathy to treat all of us fairly. My Mom thought about it and changed her will to add me. Sister and I agreed as a majority to remove the bank since we were going to do all the work - they did not need 'a cut' of the estate. Things are well now and progressing. She will never ever enter my house again. Cheers, Peggy

You can ask for the amount of colorant added to the base can of paints to be reduced with the intent of lessening the chromaticity or colorfulness of the color. You can also go the other way and have the amount of colorant increased so the color is strengthened or more saturated. Messing with stock formulas is a slippery slope. Adjusting formulas works for those who are not super particular about the color they want -- they have relaxed expectaions and a flexible color tolerance when it comes to how a paint color is going to look in their space and change the atmosphere. Adjusting formulas is not the most productive path that people with a heightened sense of color acuity should pursue -- because it will never be right for them. The adjusting and tweaking to get it to that "perfect color" can go on freakin' forever. It can get out of control until someone says it's time to stop and focus on the all the right reasons for choosing a paint color instead of continuing to chase an idea of a "perfect color". As a general practice, I don't do it. It can be far more efficient to just keep looking for the *right* color. This biggest pitfall is you don't know what it's going to look like until you do it. If you ask for a decrease/increase in colorant, you will own the can of paint whether you like it or not. Sampling, or testing, paint colors first is standard operating procedure for all paint colors but it is especially important in the case of altering the formula. If you want to try it, then try it. Just don't get too wrapped around the individual colorants or trying to understand what all the letters and numbers mean on the label. From a homeowner perspective none of that matters -- stay focused on what the end result of combining those colorants looks like. How does the resulting paint color behave in your space is all you really need to know because that's all you can control -- as in does it work or not and WHY. If it doesn't work, then you need to articulate "WHY" it doesn't work. If you can articulate why it doesn't work, then the color mixer person at the paint store who works with colorants and paint every day can figure out what needs to happen with the formula. That's their job, not yours.