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8 July 2024 | 16 replies
It is a peer and beam style home.A good first move would be to get an arrow staple gun and Staple some thick plastic over all of the windows on the outside and all over the holes on the walls on the outside and over the doors to keep the interior sealed .
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12 July 2024 | 281 replies
I recently dealt with sugar ants (tiny light-brown ants) which had found their way into the plastic bags in which I put my food in the pantry in an effort to discourage them.
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1 July 2024 | 9 replies
The sliders are still generally solid wood outer frames and the worst the tenants can do is knock it off the track or damage the plastic guide on the floor, which is cheap to replace.
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29 June 2024 | 26 replies
K sent me a photo with the intake vent covered with plastic.
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26 June 2024 | 11 replies
Faster is not always a consequence of laziness.I'd say see what you can do with the current manager before you jump from the frying pan into the fire.
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23 June 2024 | 38 replies
My brother-in-law, a fire marshal, told me that even if the smoke detector is a melted lump of plastic and metal, they can easily determine if it was operational at the time of fire.
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24 June 2024 | 20 replies
Nests are typically marked off with 4 wooden stakes and have plastic / caution tape wrapped around the posts.
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19 June 2024 | 4 replies
Possibly add can opener, utensils, corian and plastic glasses.
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18 June 2024 | 5 replies
Stapled the plastic to the walls using large staples, causing damage.