By: Jazzi Acroposa

Jazzi Acroposa — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 05:33:13 +0000

Spray expanding foam does a great job of sealing gaps. Had a contractor leave massive gaps in the eaves of our house. When he did the siding (upgrade from shingles), he cut out a big triangle at the top of both sides of the attic and didn’t bother putting in plywood to cover the giant triangle cutouts. So the grooves of the siding left these big two inch gaps in spots that go right outside. Lucky no birds or bats made homes in the attic.
I used spray foam insulation from Home Depot, DAP’s “Mouse and Pest Shield” and it expands a lot as it hardens, and filled all gaps with tough foam.
Also he installed pot lights installed in the kitchen years ago, and they’re the old style that aren’t totally enclosed, so there’s small holes in the light housing that go into the attic. Disgusting big attic flies crawl through and get all over the kitchen every day.
It’s so bad I keep a vacuum cleaner and just suck them up, then plug the end with a knot of paper towel. But I’m sick of cleaning up two or three every single morning before I can even cook and not be pestered. Usually a couple more at lunch, more at dinner, they really are persistent and I thought just plugging the holes they’d eventually die off. But it’s been two months and they keep coming down from the attic.
Just trying to get rid of the existing infestation now all the holes are plugged.
Thanks for the tips!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:19:22 +0000

Very good advice. I sprayed flying insect spray 2 seperate times at the clusters that I saw in the attic. Probably swept up close to 500 the 1st and then an hr later sprayed again and swept up at least that many again. Hopefully I prevented more eggs from being laid.

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