FLOOR SWEEP FORMULA
Al Carrell: If you ever get involved in a remodeling project you're probably going to have sanding dust floating throughout the house. It's pretty difficult to get rid of the stuff because when you try to sweep it up you just put it in the air and it floats someplace else. The janitors have a great way to get rid of it. It's a sawdust that is soaked with oil and it's called a floor sweep. The only problem is that if you want to buy it you've got to buy a 30 gallon drum of it and you don't want that much. I'm going to give you the magic formula. You start with three cups of sawdust. You add one cup of rock salt, that's ice-cream salt, and then you pour in three-quarters of a cup of mineral oil and that's about three-quarters of a cup. And then you mix it up real good. And what you're going to end up doing is having a floor sweep that's going to settle all the dust down, will not allow it to float around and you really have got something that will do the job. Takes a little while to mix it up. Now it really would be easier to mix this in a bowl, but I'm mixing it in a can because that's a reminder that when you're not using this stuff to be sure you keep the lid because it is a flammable mixture and it could cause a fire through spontaneous combustion. When you get it all mixed up then you're ready to use it. It's real easy to use. All you need to do is just take a handful of it, start spreading it around on the floor and then start doing the sweep-up and as you sweep up you don't create any dust, you just collect it. And then when you get it all swept up you just get a dustpan and get this stuff and you can even reuse it. Incidentally, it'll work on any kind of floor that's solid, whether it's a wood floor, whether it's concrete or whatever.
Episode 64 1997 - 98 Season
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