12.  Get ready to leave your house that night.  Unless you are having some remote room done where you will not be gassed out of your normal living quarters just expect to have overnight arrangements made PRIOR to the stain going down.  The stain and first coat of polyurethane was to be blunt………overpowering in my house.  Both me and my pets had to evacuate until the next day.  Just have a bag packed as there was no way I could stay there the first night with the combined fumes from the stain and the polyurethane.  NOW we are almost done.