House and home

PAcanis said:
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I get those Asian beetles, too. Not that many though.
I thought someone told me they bite. They ran into them siding a house.
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No biting, just get stuck in your hair or beard and buzzing about inside. I tried to keep up with killing them inside but gave that up due to sheer numbers so now justvsweep them up. Not a fan of poison everywhere so it is living in GA.
 
Barriehie said:
No biting, just get stuck in your hair or beard and buzzing about inside. I tried to keep up with killing them inside but gave that up due to sheer numbers so now justvsweep them up. Not a fan of poison everywhere so it is living in GA.
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My mum had a similar problem with insect death marks on the walls. So she rag rolled the entire place in two shades of terracotta 😂
 
Barriehie said:
It's that time of the year when what appear at first glance to be ladybugs start looking for a warm place to stay. Soon enough the house will be covered with thousands of these flippin' insects. View attachment 136142View attachment 136143

They're not ladybugs. They're Chinese Lady Beetles that the USDA brought over here in the 60's to eat something destroying cash crops. They've no predators so they abound. What really sux is when they start to die they autohemmorage and leave a staining trail. View attachment 136144

It takes multiple passes of Kilz stain blocker to cover it. Pita bugs... I sweep them up inside by the hundreds when it's on full swing around Thanksgiving. Pests flying all over the place...
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I feel your pain. The area where we bought one of our single family rental properties is near a river and has a lot of flies in the summer. The lady who previously lived there must have kept the windows open to invite them in and never cleaned a thing because the ceiling was covered in fly "dirt". Among the many months of work that we put into remodeling that place, I spent hours up on a ladder with a bucket of water and a magic eraser removing it, before we rolled on Kilz and repainted the whole interior.
 
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Gone Hiking said:
I feel your pain. The area where we bought one our the single family rental properties is near a river and has a lot of flies in the summer. The lady who previously lived there must have kept the windows open to invite them in and never cleaned a thing because the ceiling was covered in fly "dirt". Among the many months of work that we put into remodeling that place, I spent hours up on a ladder with a bucket of water and a magic eraser removing it, before we rolled on Kilz and repainted the whole interior.
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This year they seem to be dying overnight and I'm finding them on the floor without the autohemmorage trails. 👍
 
The countertops are now installed in my laundry room. I still have a lot of work to do yet to install the faucet, cabinet trim and door pulls, crown molding, base trim and wainscoting top trim, and then wallpaper above the wainscoting, but this makeover is finally coming together.

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Gone Hiking said:
The countertops are now installed in my laundry room. I still have a lot of work to do yet to install the faucet, cabinet trim and door pulls, crown molding, base trim and wainscoting top trim, and then wallpaper above the wainscoting, but this makeover is finally coming together.

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That’s going to look great.
 
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