Termite Day

[pdub]

Sadly and expensively our garage has gotta get treated for termites. The man told Unit, "You'll have to pile all of the stuff in the (1) middle of the garage and park (2) all of the cares outside, we'll be drilling on all three garage walls."

(1) Not necessarily in the "middle" of the garage, and
(2) Not ALL of the cars, not tonight, at least.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Poor bluebell shivering, cold, outside while that mean old red is on the inside. It' ain't right, I tell ya, it ain't right.

[STINEY]

Pile all my stuff in the middle? Ha! It's already there!

But what to do with the stuff on the sides.... hmmmm.....

[Barry Donovan]

I was banging at the subarus rear end..
a big dead termite fell out of one of holes of somethings.

did not expect it.

if they show up here, it is like the monarch butterfly etc.. short lived. Cool to see them.

[Whelk]

I'm stunned at how little stuff is in PDubs's garage.

[silver_bullet]

Yeah, but he's getting there....

[Deaf Bob]

I'm stunned at how little stuff is in PDubs's garage.

I think he has a 3 bedroom house with 2 of them full of music toys... Could be wrong tho..

[70chevyC-10]

at least he didn't have to move the pool table -

[malc]

Our house is totally made of brick and cement
but due to my misses "rescuing" a wood cabinet
termites got into the door frames.
You could hear the little b*****ds chewing away
under the surface.
I cut chunks of frame out and replaced it and the remaining wood treated.
Luckily they never got up under the roof.....
it's all wood beams up there.

[pdub]

A carpenter/painter is up next to figure out how far up they went behind the siding.

Our house is falling in at the foundation anyhow. Look at the cracks in the garage floor. The inside of the house looks much the same.

[pdub]

When this house and all the others in the neighborhood were built in 1987, if there were any building codes whatsoever they were for sure not inspected for or enforced.

When we had all of the stuff cleared away fro the garage walls, somehow Unit noticed "this" under the work bench. This is where the foundation is supposed to meet on the corner underneath the garage/kitchen wall.

[Deaf Bob]

Unsettling! Looks like the ground did not settle/compact before the poor pour

[STINEY]

I wonder.....is that a "contractor-installed" tennis ball?


I had a wet crawlspace in a new house. Contractor covered the 3" gap on the first row of block above the footer with a few roofing shingles and some plastic wrapping. Yeah, it worked great. Might have killed the little bastard to use another $5 of cement?

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/dv869/PHONE011.jpg

Cheap SOBs anyhow.