bw wrote:
Just pour a half-gallon of "liquid drain cleaner" in a 5 gallon plastic
bucket and add a couple gallons warm water....

Knowing it was "just lye", I once used dry/crystals Drano to make paint
remover and had a horrible mess. It was a while ago, so I don't
remember details. I do remember that there was something else besides
lye in the Drano and that something left an awful mess. Bob