Tell me your fumigation stories
August 4, 2017 9:12 PM Subscribe
We have to fumigate our house and the logistics of clearing out the house of people, pets, food and more is giving me a migraine. Give me your hopeful fumigation stories and perhaps any tips for the process. We'll be out of the house for about a week.
Best answer: Hi, I just had my house fumigated for termites 3 weeks ago. It was a pain in the ass to prep the house for the fumigators, but the upside of going through our pantry and medicine cabinet is that we finally purged a lot of stuff that we realistically weren't going to use or had expired. It also gave us the kick needed to do some re-organization.
Here are some things I wish I would have done differently;
- Cleaned out the pantry, fridge, and freezer sooner. We ended up eating some crappy meals in an effort to get through stuff. We probably should have just budgeted a week of take-out into the cost of the fumigation.
- Had a 'Drink Down the Bar' party. This may not apply to you, but moving the roughly ~150 bottles that comprise our bar across the street to a neighbors house was exhausting.
- Dug up plants further out than recommended where there was some hardscaping, or the soil was loose. We lost a couple plants that we could have transplanted.
- Moved potted plants sooner. We have a lot of plants in the house and on our porch, Probably 50 or so. Moving all of these to a corner of the yard away from the house over a few days was way too much work. We should have spaced it out and moved 4 or 5 a day, especially those that are more sensitive.
- Treated the corner of the yard we moved the plants to for ants prior. Pretty self-explanatory, ants took up residence in the plants. It's been a pain killing them and not the plants.
Bottom line is really just expect everything on your to-do list to take twice as long as you think it should, and build that into your timeline.
posted by nulledge at 9:06 AM on August 7, 2017
Here are some things I wish I would have done differently;
- Cleaned out the pantry, fridge, and freezer sooner. We ended up eating some crappy meals in an effort to get through stuff. We probably should have just budgeted a week of take-out into the cost of the fumigation.
- Had a 'Drink Down the Bar' party. This may not apply to you, but moving the roughly ~150 bottles that comprise our bar across the street to a neighbors house was exhausting.
- Dug up plants further out than recommended where there was some hardscaping, or the soil was loose. We lost a couple plants that we could have transplanted.
- Moved potted plants sooner. We have a lot of plants in the house and on our porch, Probably 50 or so. Moving all of these to a corner of the yard away from the house over a few days was way too much work. We should have spaced it out and moved 4 or 5 a day, especially those that are more sensitive.
- Treated the corner of the yard we moved the plants to for ants prior. Pretty self-explanatory, ants took up residence in the plants. It's been a pain killing them and not the plants.
Bottom line is really just expect everything on your to-do list to take twice as long as you think it should, and build that into your timeline.
posted by nulledge at 9:06 AM on August 7, 2017
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posted by jbenben at 12:03 AM on August 5, 2017