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August 30, 2010 at 9:35 AM #598380August 30, 2010 at 9:54 AM #598077
CBad
ParticipantYou’re worried about setting the outside of your house on fire with a blowtorch? Ok, maybe you have several fire hazards around your house I don’t know. We don’t. There is no vegetation right next to the house (tent once and you’ll quickly learn not to do that) and the black widows are either along the back and side perimeter of the house on the stucco (hardscape pavers on the ground) or in the fire pit cracks. Rarely they’ve been on the patio table. Common sense applies and would tell you not to torch your eaves, areas where you have dead leaves, needles, trees overhanging, grasses, anything flammable, etc.
August 30, 2010 at 9:54 AM #598396CBad
ParticipantYou’re worried about setting the outside of your house on fire with a blowtorch? Ok, maybe you have several fire hazards around your house I don’t know. We don’t. There is no vegetation right next to the house (tent once and you’ll quickly learn not to do that) and the black widows are either along the back and side perimeter of the house on the stucco (hardscape pavers on the ground) or in the fire pit cracks. Rarely they’ve been on the patio table. Common sense applies and would tell you not to torch your eaves, areas where you have dead leaves, needles, trees overhanging, grasses, anything flammable, etc.
August 30, 2010 at 9:54 AM #597328CBad
ParticipantYou’re worried about setting the outside of your house on fire with a blowtorch? Ok, maybe you have several fire hazards around your house I don’t know. We don’t. There is no vegetation right next to the house (tent once and you’ll quickly learn not to do that) and the black widows are either along the back and side perimeter of the house on the stucco (hardscape pavers on the ground) or in the fire pit cracks. Rarely they’ve been on the patio table. Common sense applies and would tell you not to torch your eaves, areas where you have dead leaves, needles, trees overhanging, grasses, anything flammable, etc.
August 30, 2010 at 9:54 AM #597968CBad
ParticipantYou’re worried about setting the outside of your house on fire with a blowtorch? Ok, maybe you have several fire hazards around your house I don’t know. We don’t. There is no vegetation right next to the house (tent once and you’ll quickly learn not to do that) and the black widows are either along the back and side perimeter of the house on the stucco (hardscape pavers on the ground) or in the fire pit cracks. Rarely they’ve been on the patio table. Common sense applies and would tell you not to torch your eaves, areas where you have dead leaves, needles, trees overhanging, grasses, anything flammable, etc.
August 30, 2010 at 9:54 AM #597424CBad
ParticipantYou’re worried about setting the outside of your house on fire with a blowtorch? Ok, maybe you have several fire hazards around your house I don’t know. We don’t. There is no vegetation right next to the house (tent once and you’ll quickly learn not to do that) and the black widows are either along the back and side perimeter of the house on the stucco (hardscape pavers on the ground) or in the fire pit cracks. Rarely they’ve been on the patio table. Common sense applies and would tell you not to torch your eaves, areas where you have dead leaves, needles, trees overhanging, grasses, anything flammable, etc.
August 30, 2010 at 3:28 PM #598156carli
ParticipantI had the same thought when I heard you were blow-torching the spiders…it sounded more dangerous than the spiders, but now makes sense. We have too much vegetation too close to the house to consider blow-torching, but now I’m worried that I need to do something else for those spiders. I’ve never heard of anyone being bit by one, but it must happen around here.
I saw a spider just hanging out in the kitchen sink when I came downstairs one morning, and I’m pretty sure it was a black widow. My husband also saw what he thinks was one underneath our built-in BBQ, which we have to practically crawl into in order to turn on the gas everytime we BBQ. This is really giving me the heebie jeebies (technical term similar to “skeeve”). Is there a company that specializes in spiders?
We had Corky’s on a monthly $45 plan for ant control (came home several times to a huge ant trail traveling through the kitchen door, up the wall into the cabinet where the honey and sugar are kept) until our neighbors told us they use those little disks that you place on the floor in the corners. Sure enough, we’ve been using those for 2 years now, and we never have the ant trails. But, maybe the spiders are a bigger issue.
August 30, 2010 at 3:28 PM #598263carli
ParticipantI had the same thought when I heard you were blow-torching the spiders…it sounded more dangerous than the spiders, but now makes sense. We have too much vegetation too close to the house to consider blow-torching, but now I’m worried that I need to do something else for those spiders. I’ve never heard of anyone being bit by one, but it must happen around here.
I saw a spider just hanging out in the kitchen sink when I came downstairs one morning, and I’m pretty sure it was a black widow. My husband also saw what he thinks was one underneath our built-in BBQ, which we have to practically crawl into in order to turn on the gas everytime we BBQ. This is really giving me the heebie jeebies (technical term similar to “skeeve”). Is there a company that specializes in spiders?
We had Corky’s on a monthly $45 plan for ant control (came home several times to a huge ant trail traveling through the kitchen door, up the wall into the cabinet where the honey and sugar are kept) until our neighbors told us they use those little disks that you place on the floor in the corners. Sure enough, we’ve been using those for 2 years now, and we never have the ant trails. But, maybe the spiders are a bigger issue.
August 30, 2010 at 3:28 PM #598583carli
ParticipantI had the same thought when I heard you were blow-torching the spiders…it sounded more dangerous than the spiders, but now makes sense. We have too much vegetation too close to the house to consider blow-torching, but now I’m worried that I need to do something else for those spiders. I’ve never heard of anyone being bit by one, but it must happen around here.
I saw a spider just hanging out in the kitchen sink when I came downstairs one morning, and I’m pretty sure it was a black widow. My husband also saw what he thinks was one underneath our built-in BBQ, which we have to practically crawl into in order to turn on the gas everytime we BBQ. This is really giving me the heebie jeebies (technical term similar to “skeeve”). Is there a company that specializes in spiders?
We had Corky’s on a monthly $45 plan for ant control (came home several times to a huge ant trail traveling through the kitchen door, up the wall into the cabinet where the honey and sugar are kept) until our neighbors told us they use those little disks that you place on the floor in the corners. Sure enough, we’ve been using those for 2 years now, and we never have the ant trails. But, maybe the spiders are a bigger issue.
August 30, 2010 at 3:28 PM #597517carli
ParticipantI had the same thought when I heard you were blow-torching the spiders…it sounded more dangerous than the spiders, but now makes sense. We have too much vegetation too close to the house to consider blow-torching, but now I’m worried that I need to do something else for those spiders. I’ve never heard of anyone being bit by one, but it must happen around here.
I saw a spider just hanging out in the kitchen sink when I came downstairs one morning, and I’m pretty sure it was a black widow. My husband also saw what he thinks was one underneath our built-in BBQ, which we have to practically crawl into in order to turn on the gas everytime we BBQ. This is really giving me the heebie jeebies (technical term similar to “skeeve”). Is there a company that specializes in spiders?
We had Corky’s on a monthly $45 plan for ant control (came home several times to a huge ant trail traveling through the kitchen door, up the wall into the cabinet where the honey and sugar are kept) until our neighbors told us they use those little disks that you place on the floor in the corners. Sure enough, we’ve been using those for 2 years now, and we never have the ant trails. But, maybe the spiders are a bigger issue.
August 30, 2010 at 3:28 PM #597610carli
ParticipantI had the same thought when I heard you were blow-torching the spiders…it sounded more dangerous than the spiders, but now makes sense. We have too much vegetation too close to the house to consider blow-torching, but now I’m worried that I need to do something else for those spiders. I’ve never heard of anyone being bit by one, but it must happen around here.
I saw a spider just hanging out in the kitchen sink when I came downstairs one morning, and I’m pretty sure it was a black widow. My husband also saw what he thinks was one underneath our built-in BBQ, which we have to practically crawl into in order to turn on the gas everytime we BBQ. This is really giving me the heebie jeebies (technical term similar to “skeeve”). Is there a company that specializes in spiders?
We had Corky’s on a monthly $45 plan for ant control (came home several times to a huge ant trail traveling through the kitchen door, up the wall into the cabinet where the honey and sugar are kept) until our neighbors told us they use those little disks that you place on the floor in the corners. Sure enough, we’ve been using those for 2 years now, and we never have the ant trails. But, maybe the spiders are a bigger issue.
August 30, 2010 at 9:42 PM #597706KIBU
ParticipantThere he is, the biggest spider I seen, in the big trash container and yet, he ran and hid so well that it took me half an hour and still failed to know where he went. The stick doesn’t work well in the trash container and so is the water hose. I am going to buy the chemical spray tomorrow and spray the whole trash container inside out.
August 30, 2010 at 9:42 PM #598773KIBU
ParticipantThere he is, the biggest spider I seen, in the big trash container and yet, he ran and hid so well that it took me half an hour and still failed to know where he went. The stick doesn’t work well in the trash container and so is the water hose. I am going to buy the chemical spray tomorrow and spray the whole trash container inside out.
August 30, 2010 at 9:42 PM #598456KIBU
ParticipantThere he is, the biggest spider I seen, in the big trash container and yet, he ran and hid so well that it took me half an hour and still failed to know where he went. The stick doesn’t work well in the trash container and so is the water hose. I am going to buy the chemical spray tomorrow and spray the whole trash container inside out.
August 30, 2010 at 9:42 PM #598348KIBU
ParticipantThere he is, the biggest spider I seen, in the big trash container and yet, he ran and hid so well that it took me half an hour and still failed to know where he went. The stick doesn’t work well in the trash container and so is the water hose. I am going to buy the chemical spray tomorrow and spray the whole trash container inside out.
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