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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 24, 2014, 09:06:13 PM
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Oh my.
Liberalynn (6,683 posts) Wed Sep 24, 2014, 03:53 PM
Have to Go Down to the Cellar! I don't want too.
It's an 1884 dirt cellar and there are spiders and their webs down there. I once even found a dead rat. I normally try to stay out of it as much as possible but the furnace company is coming for the annual maintenance. As a courtesy I usually try to clean out around the furnace so they don't have to walk into a web.
I know Daddy Long Legs in NY State aren't poisonous spiders, I know I am lucky to have a house with a furnace in it, but it seriously creeps me out.
When I was younger my Mom used to tell my sister and I if we didn't behave she'd throw us to the monster down there. Okay so as a grown-up I know there's no monster but that's how creepy it is.
NYC_SKP (61,736 posts) Wed Sep 24, 2014, 04:24 PM
6. Yup, a broom or mop or long handled something, and good lighting!
If you have or can bring in good lighting, drop cord or clamp on or even a couple lamps, it'll make it easier for you to avoid webs and easier for the service folks, too.
And spiders don't like light, so I think that'll help!
^^^Skippy.
woodsprite (6,523 posts) Wed Sep 24, 2014, 04:53 PM
9. You could put the light on a day or so before they come.
Give those spideys a chance to move out or hide before you have to spend time down there.
I couldn't figure out why my hubby kept the basement light on in his work area. It's because, as much as he gets on my case of being afraid of spiders, he doesn't want any in his work area. We have wolf spiders in our basement. No fun at all! Needless to say, our basement is one big pit of stuff I've kinda written off, because I won't go down and get it unless I have to. If I do, I carry something that I can squash those suckers with.
marzipanni (5,793 posts) Wed Sep 24, 2014, 06:55 PM
17. We have a 1916 cellar
5/6 dirt crawl bend-forward-and-try-to-walk space, 1/6 concrete SRO cellar. With cobwebs galore.
The already dessicated rat in the far reaches I saw last year is no longer there. I guess Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, knew how to take care of it; it turned back to dust. (My back was achy after bending over and "walking" when I first saw it, so I put off going back with dog-doo tongs and a bag to collect it. )
Our neighbor has a friendly little tabby cat who likes to slip down our cellar stairs near the back door when the dog isn't watching, then jumps up on to the water heater and climbs on up into the wall space where she found a napping spot in the recess of the walls above built-in cabinets. Sometimes she comes up the cellar stairs festooned with cobwebs dangling from her whiskers.
I never minded the daddy long-legs spiders, but then one time I saw a black widow hanging from a joist.
Three or four summers ago, old dirt cellars in various places on this property--seven of them--were filled in; the owners had no idea most of them were even there, as they dated from the 1920s and before.
They were ordered filled in because I'd descended down into one, the neighbor with me, to see all what was in there.
At one point, I put my hand above my head, on a ledge.
I felt something, and immediately froze.
I'd been just about to wrap my hand around a big old snake there, but due to lightning-quick reflexes, I stopped right where I was at. The snake was very much alive, and it must've been half a mile long, given all the time it took to slither its way under my hand. It knew I was there, but I hadn't yet put down my hand hard enough on it to annoy it.
I'm sure it was the longest two minutes or so of my life, just standing there, absolutely still, waiting for it to pass through. The bigger fear of course was that I had no idea what kind of snake it was.
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The primitives are worried about finding a dead rat in the basement when the upstairs is infested with them. Rats that is.
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Can't you set off bug bombs?
I don't know, never had a basement.
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Can't you set off bug bombs?
I don't know, never had a basement.
Yes. And cleaning it on a regular basis reduces the spiders, too. Even if one lives in a really buggy area, a person can bomb and use a shop vac a few times a year.
But, these are DUmmies, aren't they.
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Yes. And cleaning it on a regular basis reduces the spiders, too. Even if one lives in a really buggy area, a person can bomb and use a shop vac a few times a year.
But, these are DUmmies, aren't they.
They need to make sure the furnace is running when they set off the bug bombs. The bombs work better with warmer temperatures.
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This is a very strange thread.
I am sure we could recommend how to clean out a cellar. There are companies that do this and not too expensively.
May I humbly suggest we waggle fingers at them for their crazy thoughts and not a common discontent?
My 2 cents...
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Can't you set off bug bombs?
I don't know, never had a basement.
Absolutely and they work very well. I try to bomb once every two years, need it or not. My house was built in 1984 with a walk out basement to a porch/deck on the lakeside. Since we're in the woods, we get a lot of spiders (among other things :naughty:). I've gone 6 months without seeing one after a good bombing.
I'm used to it. Lizards, snakes, spiders, every species of bird in the area, squirrels, raccoons, you name it.... are all part of "the woods". Especially on a lake, for some reason.
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I am that "furnace guy" and I am here to tell you that Dummies lie! They aren't going to do shit! In fact if they have a basement that they do go down into, they will have the cat litter box's next to the furnace and they will be filthy! That said if I come to your house for scheduled maintenance and I find it deplorable I leave and call the health dept! If I come in the dead of the winter for a no heat call while I am rushing to get everyone up and running before the pipes freeze I am a softie and will help you. But there are still some places that are just unbelievable! People are pigs! As for dead rodents, they are in everyone's basement! I once found a ladies missing cat! It wasn't fluffy anymore!
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I am that "furnace guy" and I am here to tell you that Dummies lie! They aren't going to do shit! In fact if they have a basement that they do go down into, they will have the cat litter box's next to the furnace and they will be filthy! That said if I come to your house for scheduled maintenance and I find it deplorable I leave and call the health dept! If I come in the dead of the winter for a no heat call while I am rushing to get everyone up and running before the pipes freeze I am a softie and will help you. But there are still some places that are just unbelievable! People are pigs! As for dead rodents, they are in everyone's basement! I once found a ladies missing cat! It wasn't fluffy anymore! [/b]
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: I busted a gut....now I need to see a surgeon.