I have been stressing out the last few days over clearing out my house of all consumables and drugs to get ready for a fumigation for termites. We have had dry wood and subterranean and treated for them since we moved into this house and just haven’t been able to get rid of the dry wood termites. We seems to just be chasing them around the place. We have tile roof on part of the house which means roof repairs will have to be done immediately after the pest control operation is done. Will have to be out for three days while the tent they build around the house is on. Luckily I have a place to stay with internet whilst this goes on. I am not handling disruption of my life well even though I should not sweat it. It’s the whole every window open in the house insecurity stress I am having to deal with.
FlameBait I have been stressing out the last few days over clearing out my house of all consumables and drugs to get ready for a fumigation for termites. We have had dry wood and subterranean and treated for them since we moved into this house and just haven’t been able to get rid of the dry wood termites. We seems to just be chasing them around the place. We have tile roof on part of the house which means roof repairs will have to be done immediately after the pest control operation is done. Will have to be out for three days while the tent they build around the house is on. Luckily I have a place to stay with internet whilst this goes on. I am not handling disruption of my life well even though I should not sweat it. It’s the whole every window open in the house insecurity stress I am having to deal with.
Stupid BUGS I Hate you!!!:sarcastic:
I have great sympathy for you FlameBait. When I lived in Houston, my house got hit three times by termites even including just before I left Houston after losing my job there some 15 years ago. I can remember using the bathroom and actually seeing one eat through the sheetrock (presumably eating the wood behind the wall). They gave me the willies and I felt very lucky to be able to sell the house since you had to disclose such things. I am so happy to be away from that home though being in Texas, they can hit any where. Since we are in a big time drought, termites are not such a big problem right now, but again, they can attack anywhere. So I wish much luck in getting rid of them.
You have my total sympathy. Here in the UK, wooden beams in houses are attacked by death watch beetles but it usually takes a couple of hundred years after construction before they manage to get going. My house is a mere 12 years old
Actually some termites seem to prefer the paper face of the sheetrock to the wood studs. I’ve seen houses here with relatively intact frames and all the sheetrock falling off the walls. The little buggers had eaten all the facing paper that had been all that held the gypsum core together. Another fun variation of the termite problem is when you get the ones that go straight for the glue between the laminations of your plywood walls and floors.
Around here we use pressure treated wood for almost everything, so the frame of our houses are pretty safe. It was a shock to find out that the termites could still do us in by going for the paper and glue.
Now, don’t get me going on what happens when the salt air penetrates the walls of a house and rots out all the galvanized nails in the house after 5-10 years… especially since the stainless steel nails that we used to use to prevent the problem are now as much as $4.00 a pound here.
On 2011-07-05 01:36, FlameBait wrote:
> Stupid BUGS I Hate you!!!:sarcastic:
Where I live, houses are typically made of concrete, so we don’t typically
have your problem. But if we do, we don’t have those pest fighters you have
to turn to, either. I have never seen a house wrapped in plastic except on
movies (an episode of CSI).
I do have some wood on the roof, though
Plus tables, chairs, beds, etc.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
My biggest bummer out of this whole mess so far has been having to take all my Amateur Radio antennas down. Putting them back up will be a huge chore I am going to have to do some replacement of parts of those systems. as I put things back together. I hope to be back inside my own house tomorrow night.
I am posting from my daughters’s living room where I have a system set up on a folding table. I have to manually bring up a wireless connection every time I start the computer but my openSUSE install on my test machine is playing great.
