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• Posted in thread: Bees drilling holes and making themselves at home. on 07-06-2010 at 08:26 PM
  4 conversations starting late last summer about the bees. Yep ... we'll take care of them. This
  spring: they're here! Please come! Ok .. we took care of them. CHECK. The next day: ARG!
  They're everywh...

• Posted in thread: Bees drilling holes and making themselves at home. on 07-06-2010 at 07:36 PM
  I could go on and on about the bees and Terminix' unwillingness to treat for them on our barn
  (despite their unsupervised claims to have been!).In the end, the woodpeckers came in and in
  one week's ti...

• Posted in thread: problem painting porch on 05-06-2010 at 01:30 PM
  Nestor ... I love your answers! Very informative!

• Posted in thread: Strong Ants, can't get rid of. on 05-03-2010 at 12:39 PM
  make sure you don't have carpenter ants! We discovered a huge infestation that had apparently
  gone untreated for too long (before us). After trying to get rid of them myself I gave up and
  called in a ...

• Posted in thread: I want to be a House Flipper. on 05-03-2010 at 12:29 PM
  My wife and I have been in a new old home now for a little over a year now. There are stretches
  where we are working from the crack of dawn, till past dark. Exhaustion. Soreness. Lack of a
  life outsid...

• Posted in thread: problem painting porch on 05-03-2010 at 12:25 PM
  I just (FINALLY!) finished a three week porch painting project. The weather dragged the project
  out.Lots of scraping.Caulked the bottom joints on the railings to prevent water from getting
  between.Two...

• Posted in thread: Help with sistering/blocking floor joists on 01-26-2010 at 04:36 PM
  Obviously, this is a really old thread, but I'll give it a try...I have a single perpendicular
  beam on posts as an experiment in one room. I really like it for eliminating the bounce so far,
  but a nei...

• Posted in thread: Eliminate bounce on old floors on 01-26-2010 at 04:27 PM
  Thanks guys. I actually had searched the forum before posting. The first thing of interest was
  on the fourth page. The internet's great for info ... if you can find it! And so many people
  post with ge...

• Posted in thread: Eliminate bounce on old floors on 01-22-2010 at 01:38 PM
  Hello,I have a super old home in a 4-corner layout. When we walk, there's quite a bit of
  bounce. You should see it when we play the Wii!Each quadrant's span is about 14' - a few inches
  over. The joist...

• Posted in thread: Shoudl the attic roof be insulated? on 09-06-2009 at 05:50 AM
  What a great post. Thank you very much!My insulation is in backwards, huh? I hadn't noticed
  that. I'll flip 'em all.Ok, so my holes aren't big enough. Ugh. I did the math, and for 11' x
  14' (154 sq ft...