OT: Pest control: is it necessary to get the yearly deal versus do it yourselve, how about do nothing ?

[all]

Caulk cracks around doors and windows if you can.

I spray $3-4 worth of Ortho Home Defense Max outside the house every 3 months and it seems to be working. I draw a line where the foundation meets the ground and around doors and windows. I also spray the ground side of the top horizontal plank and the bottom of the fence.

My 6-year old likes to collect spiders. I sprayed the container once with Ortho and newly caught spiders would die quickly even weeks later. She thought all the spiders in the neighborhood are very sick.

[CBad]

You’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.

[CBad]

You’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.

[CBad]

You’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.

[CBad]

You’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.

[CBad]

You’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.

[carli]

I 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.

[carli]

I 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.

[carli]

I 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.

[carli]

I 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.

[carli]

I 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.

[KIBU]

There 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.

[KIBU]

There 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.

[KIBU]

There 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.

[KIBU]

There 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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