Claudia, I have seen responses from various folks and their advice is good.
I would probably not bother to put in dry wall but rather seal the walls with one of the new products as there is a possibility of more water in the future. I use my large Sears shop vac and have purchased an optional tool designed specifically for picking up things on the floor. (not the squeegy) I also have a couple of extra extensions for the plastic wand which will allow me to reach up a good 7 or 8 feet above my arm's length. The want on my shop vac is large enough to ingest tennis balls and the like so it will do a great job of sucking down the webs as well as picking up all manner of reasonable large objects from the floor. If you are able to seal off the basement I wold let loose a couple of those bug bombs for starters. This will eliminate the bug problem and then you can control it by the regular monthly spraying. I saw someone mention those Shell No Pest strips. They really do work and I have used them in the kitchen of my restaurants many years ago to control various flying things which come inside during the summertime. You can find what I think is the same product in many farm type stores. These little strips are used on cattle to ward off flies and other insects and they work just like the old Shell No Pest Strips. HTH, Cy From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Claudia Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Basements Again! Hi All, We have a large unfinished basement; the floors are concrete, and the walls are cindrblock. There is no insulation or drywall in the basement currently! We had that all taken out, after we experienced about a foot of water, in our basement, two years ago. What would be the best way to go about keeping the basement floor clean? We currently use a shop vac to do that, but it takes forever and a day, to get it done. Also, I think I asked about this before, but the basement gets full of spiders and spider webs, and I hate walking around down there, feeling stuff hanging over my head! What can we do to curb some of this activity, if anything? Or, would some of this probelm be eliminated, once we start putting back new insulation and drywall? Thanks. Claudia Windows Messenger: [email protected] <mailto:cdelreal1973%40sbcglobal.net> Skype: claudiadr10 __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5245 (20100702) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
