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Voted 5 and following. I know what it's like to move into a house that needs work and then discover just how much more work it needs once there's no take-backsies. The panic is real and you're doing the best you can. 
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If you want I can tell you about the time it took me a year to completely get rid of a flea infestation. Pests suck and everyone's had to deal with them at some point.Ball Tazeman posted:I’m trying to make my projects a little smaller so that I at least get something done. This week is just getting the weed whacker to work and replacing a door knob to the basement. That sounds like a great plan. Is it a gas weed whacker? I know we have some small engine people around here who could help out with advice/ideas if you hit any roadblocks.
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Ball Tazeman posted:Do tell. Well it all started with the mice. I was a poor punk with somehow decent credit and my friends and I needed a new place to live. I had the number of a slumlord I had rented from previously and knew he stayed out of my poo poo so I gave him a call and sure enough, $540/mo, 5 bedrooms, one bathroom, 2700 square feet and it was sandwiched between a church and a row of condemned properties with a 24 hour bodega right across the street. I showed up at his office with a money order and picked up the keys that day. Me and my best friend John, this short squat dude with a curly mop of hair, went over to check it out and figure out what needed to happen to make it livable. We went in and it was pristine. Stunk of old house but the paint was fresh and the linoleum in the bathroom wasn't peeling up and poo poo it even had the largest living room we'd ever seen in a row house. It was going to be perfect, we were going to host house shows and let our friends squat there and live the punk dream. And as we went out the back door, from across the alleyway our neighbor there shouted "don't rent that place, it's got mice." Mind you I'd been living in slums since my parents divorced a decade earlier and mice didn't scare me, so I said "thanks for the heads up, I can deal with them." And I did, it was a month-long rodent genocide with spring traps and peanut butter and a couple cats and at the end there were no more mice and our cats were acting kinda weird. Like, scratching themselves a lot and leaving this trail of black dust everywhere they hung out. Also my ankles itched, a lot. It turns out the mice had given our cats fleas as a parting gift. And from there it took a goddamn year of flea treatments on the cats and washing everything soft in the house and eventually sending the cats to live with my dad so I could fog the entire house multiple times before the timing worked out just right and all the fleas were excised for good, and when it was all said and done I had met my fiance and so a couple weeks after I was victorious I said gently caress it and left that punk house for good. Moral of the story: punks have fleas and go straight to the foggers to get rid of them. corgski fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jun 26, 2021 |
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Ball Tazeman posted:Also our groundhog friend is back. That or it actually did have babies and they just came out of the nest. Aww! We have a groundhog friend too, ours lives under our shed. Ball Tazeman posted:Honestly, my anxiety is so bad that, since I found mouse poop in my vanity, I won’t even go in to the office anymore and I keep all of my makeup in my duffel bag that I take in to town. I won’t even use the jewelry or hair accessories that were in those drawers. I don’t sleep at night because I assume every house sound is a mouse and go in to a panic attack. I have literally been there, I get it. It's not fun to be at that level of hypervigilance. Inpatient is a good option if it's at the point where it's seriously impacting your ability to function. Another option to look into when you get an evaluation would be intensive outpatient/day hospital - although with your panic trigger being your house that might be counterproductive for reaching a stable point quickly. I don't know if you post in E/N, but there's a wealth of knowledge there regarding the mental health system and how to advocate for yourself. (And posting these updates here in this thread is good too, this is not me saying "take it to E/N.") In any case, I hope you reach a more comfortable point soon. I know how unfun it can be.  Ball Tazeman posted:On a single positive note, I’ve managed to make the living room extremely cute looking and my outdoor herbs are getting massive. Oooh those are both awesome things! What herbs are you growing?
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I have to agree. Sheathing walls in 1/4" drywall rather than replacing it all is common lazy renovation practice and isn't going to cause mold to grow anywhere there wouldn't be mold growing anyway.
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General advice for raccoons is to get rid of food sources (garbage cans usually) so they go harass your neighbors' trash cans instead. You can do that by getting bins with tight fitting or latching lids, or by simply putting a cinderblock on top of the lid. In addition, don't put pet food outdoors and if they're getting into your garage or roof, fill or cover the openings with chicken wire. They're lazy and won't hang around if there's easier eating somewhere else.
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