Yesterday I worked on de-greasing the garage floor and it was smelly, messy and hard.

And if you get any of those chemicals on your skin, you have to rinse immediately with cold water. I had to run inside about 3 times in a panic to run my hands under the sink until I finally broke down and put on a pair of gloves.

So you pour the chemical onto the grease, then you get down on the floor on your hands and knees with a wire brush and really scrub.

After about a half an hour of this, my hands were a little torn up, and the floor was looking a little better, but not a whole lot. I think to do it right, you have to do it several times, and then paint the entire garage floor, because even if you get the actual grease off, the floor is still stained. In order to paint the garage floor, it would take at least a full day's work of moving all the boxes out (half our house is currently packed away in that garage), preparing the floor, and then a couple more days to apply a few coats of paint.

The realtors were over today with a client who seemed interested. They brought over more (decorative only) towels, (decorative only) candles and fake plants just in case we need to heat things up a notch. We asked if we really needed to paint the garage floor. She didn't seem to think so. But if I can get around to get to refinishing the bathroom cabinets before Friday, that would be a good idea.