Dear Cat--
Your mention of using sulphur to cleanse a large house piqued my interest... would you elaborate on that please? ....Should one wear a mask like you use for painting while doing this work or use any other precautions?... and how long would this smoking need to be sustained to be effective?
(The usual way is to get a little brazier, light some charcoal, drop on the sulphur, and get the hell out of Dodge. I mean just lkeave the house. A mask won't help. Just take off and go someplace else. Personally, i would not do this on a bet. So if you do it, use a very small amount of sulphur -- and don't come crying to me afterwards because you tarnished all your silver and fumed your golden oak furniture to a dark Craftsman brown. --cat)
Also, do you know of any effective means to send insects away or guard against them? ... I know some folks are able to use bees and wasps to be messengers telling a person to call a certain person ... I'm thinking specifically of ridding ones property of fire ants and termites since those formosa ones are on the move in the US now, but anything related would be great.
(The best i have ever done with insects is to allot them their own territory and make it pleasant for them -- an area not near the house. I explain very clearly that there is a boundary and they will be unmolested or even protected by me if they stay in their territory but if they get into my space we will have a conflict. This is not a complete solution to the problem, but i am fairly lackadaisical about insects and have never tried to disenfranchise them completely. I really don't mind them much. I do the same with Poison Oak, which i give a corner of my property and leave alone. --cat)
Gee, if there's a way, maybe we could even work on roaches too! (For those of y'all who have never lived in the South...you just have roaches, makes no difference how clean you keep things, though up North it sometimes can make a difference).
Thanks--Sharon
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2005-05-18 Rootwork Hour on Protection - 2 questions 1-Sulphur and 2-Insects (#4502)
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Re: 2005-05-18 Rootwork Hour on Protection - 2 questions 1-Sulphur and 2-Insects (#4502)
Dear Cat--
No silver to worry about but would it harm the spiders who do most of the bug removal in the house?
(Sure, sulphur fumes will kill spiders. --cat)
Also, I don't want to drive out the good spirits that are here, just any negative or evil ones?
(It is not merely a mechanical action; it is part of a rite of cleansing. As always, you will call or pray for what you want while doing this work. The idea that your works will be "backfiring" or giving unwished-for results is a hindrance to being a rootworker. --cat)
What exactly does it do to varnished or waxed furniture and does it only affect golden oak or also other light finished woods?...does it affect dark finished woods too? Does the furniture having a varnished or waxed finish make any difference?
(Do a google search on "fumed oak" -- or try it out yourself. Smoking unfinished oak with sulphur fumes was the standard method to produce "carftsman" finishes during the early 20th century." --cat)
I may be baing a pest here, but I really do want to know more about this because of the size of the house, my physical incapacities, and the lack of available physical help to do a more traditional type of cleansing. Maybe I should conduct a test outside with the Weber Grill an one briquette with several pieces of wood with various finishes and a scrap bit of silver?
(That's an idea. Frankly, i am not much for sulphuring the house, but it has decades of historical precendence to recommend it. However, those same people also bathed in bluestone -- toxic copper sulphate -- and poured toxic liquid mercury into nutmegs and carried them around in their pockets, neither of which i would do either. --cat)
As for the insects, I'm pretty ok with most too but I don't like roaches, fleas, and silverfish or centipedes inside. I'll give your suggestion a whirl by putting some scrap wood at a corner of the property and invite the termites there and keep feeding the pile with wood scraps as needed...our local newspaper gives away wooden pallets regularly and that should feed them quite nicely. For the fire ants I'll have to figure something out to keep them happy on another spot.
Thanks--Sharon
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No silver to worry about but would it harm the spiders who do most of the bug removal in the house?
(Sure, sulphur fumes will kill spiders. --cat)
Also, I don't want to drive out the good spirits that are here, just any negative or evil ones?
(It is not merely a mechanical action; it is part of a rite of cleansing. As always, you will call or pray for what you want while doing this work. The idea that your works will be "backfiring" or giving unwished-for results is a hindrance to being a rootworker. --cat)
What exactly does it do to varnished or waxed furniture and does it only affect golden oak or also other light finished woods?...does it affect dark finished woods too? Does the furniture having a varnished or waxed finish make any difference?
(Do a google search on "fumed oak" -- or try it out yourself. Smoking unfinished oak with sulphur fumes was the standard method to produce "carftsman" finishes during the early 20th century." --cat)
I may be baing a pest here, but I really do want to know more about this because of the size of the house, my physical incapacities, and the lack of available physical help to do a more traditional type of cleansing. Maybe I should conduct a test outside with the Weber Grill an one briquette with several pieces of wood with various finishes and a scrap bit of silver?
(That's an idea. Frankly, i am not much for sulphuring the house, but it has decades of historical precendence to recommend it. However, those same people also bathed in bluestone -- toxic copper sulphate -- and poured toxic liquid mercury into nutmegs and carried them around in their pockets, neither of which i would do either. --cat)
As for the insects, I'm pretty ok with most too but I don't like roaches, fleas, and silverfish or centipedes inside. I'll give your suggestion a whirl by putting some scrap wood at a corner of the property and invite the termites there and keep feeding the pile with wood scraps as needed...our local newspaper gives away wooden pallets regularly and that should feed them quite nicely. For the fire ants I'll have to figure something out to keep them happy on another spot.
Thanks--Sharon
http://www.rosemerryandtime.com/theosa/Index1.html
