"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 18:46:58 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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Condolences to said editor. My old house had lebenty seben armies of
termites when I abandoned it. Luckily, the old shack was in LoCal so I
had enough to buy a nice, larger, 35 year newer home in SoOr. The
termites haven't found me here...yet.

I got rid of my varmint rifle a while back or I could have some fun doing
it.

I'd never have been able to afford a new truck if I'd had to buy ammo
for all the wood munchers in that Vista house. Crikey, I'd have
outspent the DOD, even at .22 prices.


Did you use Borosil or the really poisonous stuff (most of which has
been outlawed by now)?

The garage is heavily doped with Cuprinol. It's a nice shade of green on
the

http://www.cuprinol.com/ Bwahahahahahaha! Fidiots should have called
me. I'd have all their pages up and running in a day or three. sigh
The UK site works, though.

I've been using some really stinky stuff for cuts into PT wood lately.
Jasco Termin8 green and brown, now with two -different- stenches! I'd
prefer to self-spray something like Nisus' Bora-Care (oops, not
borosil) but the stuff is more strictly licensed than guns are here in
Oregon, despite the safety over much more poisonous termiticides.
Damned regulations. "They" want $3,500 to do the underside of my 1,700
s/f shop with attached house, and it'd take them under 3 hours. sigh

In the house, I used some kind of foaming termite stuff around ten years ago
that also ran several feet up between the walls. I just filled the cavity
with foam. I forget what it was called. I think I've gotten the buggers,
finally, after years of struggling with them.



inside, roughly four feet up the studs. I did that 20 years ago, really
because of rot in the sills, but it's also been termite-free since then.

That's always favorable.


Ah, so you're not a one trick pony. Velly good, sport. Carry on.

Yup, I can waste time making and fixing things that make no economic sense
just as well as anyone. d8-)

As I said, carry on. g Then again, paying someone to refurb your
old house gets expensive in a hurry.

Oh, yeah. I should tell you about what I'm doing this weekend: snaking out
the tub drain, which is cast iron (yes, cast iron, not the welded-seam
galvanized steel stuff). Not fun. And then I have to hope the cast bronze
J-trap ($40 now for a direct replacement -- and the joint is a tapered,
machined joint that won't mate with anything else) fits back in properly.

I'd rather be ice fishing.

--
Ed Huntress