I do have a contract with an exterminator. Over the years I got to know Charley fairly well. One day I asked him about the electronic things to keep bugs away. He laughed and told me that he wished that he had all of the money that was spent for those things in the homes that he was eventually called to clear a problem. He did tell me one real horror story. He was called out to get rid of snakes in the house. He did it. He killed all of the rats and the snakes went away. That home also had one of those things. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee A. Stone" <[email protected]> To: "Blind Handyman" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 2:44 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] finding ants in your house/ riddex??
I knew nothing of this riddex product when we owned a house which was on what was described as a floating slab. we did however have two problems . one was carpenter ants and the others was a smaller but real pain in the tail ants. . used all the little ant traps and to no avail so I hired a contractor / pest control. I was told he put on some sort of three way mask and sprayed what looked like a powder throught the ground floor. . He found the little ants home right away. keep in mind this place was on a floating slab. so he saw a trail in his powder which led him to a big ant hil under the bath tub where it was all clay/ earth. there was a access panel in the back bedroom and he attached two lengths of pipe to his equipment and poof. the treatment was done. the carpenter ants. well it appeared I created that problem bringing home firewood from another place so that section of the house was sprayed and the wood removed to the back part of the property and stored under plastic. total bill was exactly $250 and worth every penny. oh and as per a suggestion from this man the following spring we planted spearmint around the house which he said after a couple of mowings would help keep pesty ants away. and it did. Lee -- Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world. Everyone thinks he has enough. -- Descartes, 1637 . ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [email protected] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [email protected]! Groups Links __________ NOD32 4478 (20091003) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
