[ksen]

Morning everyone....*yawn!*

Well, I got the old tiles, drywall, and insulation off of the back wall in the tub. It was very stinky.

I took the HH advice and sprayed all the moldy bits of the studs with bleach. By morning they were all white, well whitish-yellow.

Oh, when I took the insulation out I had a suspicion that I was going to find a surprise so I had my ant sprayer handy. I took out one of the strips of insulation and lo and behold a bunch of carpenter ants had made a nest in the insulation, what cheek! So I doused 'em good with the ant poison. By morning there must have been a few hundred little curled up ant bodies in the tub.

Anyway, last night I put in new insulation, got the new piece of drywall, actually it was cementboard, screwed onto the wall, and I taped and mudded the cementboard. Tonight I'll sand it down and apply another coat.

We bought some tile board to glue in place instead of going through the hassle of retiling.

[2Jedismom]

I took the HH advice and sprayed all the moldy bits of the studs with bleach.

That's what we did before we replaced the bottom of the cabinet where our pipe leaked. I didn't see too much mold, but it had a mildewy smell...

By morning there must have been a few hundred little curled up ant bodies in the tub.

Doesn't that give you a nice warm fuzzy feeling?

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Thank you for still pinging me...

[RMDupree]

Way to go, ksen! Handyman extraordinaire!

I've got those itty bitty sugar ants everywhere in my house. They are driving us nuts. You can't leave anything on the counter for more than a minute without them suckers climbing in. *shudder*

I have almost run out of Terro Ant Killer just trying to keep them under control. I told my mom that we should take part of the insurance money and have the house tented. It's never been tented, so why not?

[SuziQ]

lo and behold a bunch of carpenter ants had made a nest in the insulation

Good thing you got em! SSQ had to take off the siding and cut part of the back wall of our kitchen out once to get at an ant nest!

The last time, he just gassed em with CO2. Looks like we're going to have to do a repeat performance because they're starting up again. Oh well, last time they were gone for two years, so we'll just hit em again, HARDER! We'll do several walls this time cause we've seen them in the basement, the kitchen and the upstairs bathrooms! Nasty little boogers!