The Ice Storm Cometh!

[Dftodd]

And eggs.... we NEED french toast during emergenices!

Don't forget the Cresent rolls and lil' smokies. We gotta have our pigs in a blanket

 

[Dftodd]

Peanut butter is an emergency staple. It's been so long since I've had an emergency that I threw 2 jars out this fall.

Thats something that gets tossed out more then used in our house. We'll get some good jam when we visit the Amish store. So then we'll get a hankering for some PB&J sandwiches.

We'll open the peanut butter and jam. Have a couple sandwiches. Then promptly forget about the peanut butter.

Jam will get finished off with a couple rounds of biscuits.

 

[MossRoad]

I go through about a jar every 3-4 weeks.

 

[Molalla1]

Thats something that gets tossed out more then used in our house. We'll get some good jam when we visit the Amish store. So then we'll get a hankering for some PB&J sandwiches.

We'll open the peanut butter and jam. Have a couple sandwiches. Then promptly forget about the peanut butter.

Jam will get finished off with a couple rounds of biscuits.

Don't toss it out use it for mice bate . . . . I myself don't like it.

 

[Dftodd]

Don't toss it out use it for mice bate . . . . I myself don't like it.

Sold our place. Moved to a nice brand new rental in the city. Garage door seals tight. Air handler is in the attic, so it cuts down on mice coming in through the condensation drain.

Darn dog would sniff out all the mouse traps at the old house if I used peanut butter. Finally just set up a water trap in the garage. And another in the AC cabinet.

I would just check the cabinet every other day and remove the bodies in the winter. They stopped coming in once the ac was turned back on.

 

[Oaktree]

I just measured 9 inches here and it's about done snowing. So much for the 16-22" they were teasing us with.


The storms seem to be following the coast this year. Points north and west where they depend on snow for skiing and sledding aren't getting it the way they would like to see it.

It's been that way for the past few years. Southern N.H. will get buried, we'll get 3".
This storm was different...for once we got more than they predicted. Forecast was calling for 8-12, I measured 14" this morning, probably got another 2 or 3 during the day.

 

[Oaktree]

Sold our place. Moved to a nice brand new rental in the city. Garage door seals tight. Air handler is in the attic, so it cuts down on mice coming in through the condensation drain.

My house is almost 200 years old, so you'd think it'd be a full blown welcome mat for mice, but we actually get very few, and almost none in the house itself. Having 2 cats helps, but they're not that good!

 

[Dftodd]

My house is almost 200 years old, so you'd think it'd be a full blown welcome mat for mice, but we actually get very few, and almost none in the house itself. Having 2 cats helps, but they're not that good!

My house was 30+ years old. When we first moved in, we were over run with mice.

I had the dogs chase one mouse right past us. The bugger slipped under the baseboards and into the wall.

When we redid the flooring I pulled out the 30yo baseboards. Filled any holes I found with the low expanding foam.

Installed the new laminate flooring right up to the edge of the drywall. This gave it the gap it needed around the edges. Let it settle in for a couple weeks.

I then dropped in new baseboards right tight to the floor.

Every now and then we could hear the mice scratching against the baseboards trying to get inside. But no more mice inside the house.

When filling holes behind the baseboards I found a couple of causeway's where they had had free rain to waltz right into the house.

After that I would find some dropping in the AC cabinet. Determined they were coming in through the condensation drain for the AC. Thats when I installed the water trap in the bottom of the cabinet. I would find a mouse in the water trap every couple of weeks during the winter. None in the summer months when the ac was running.

 

[Jstpssng]

Mice are pernacious little buggers. This winter I've dug them out of my snowsled, my tractor, and the engine compartment of my pickup. When I had my last company truck a mouse got into the heater box and died. I couldn't get at it so had to park the truck until the stench went away.

 

[Molalla1]

My house is almost 200 years old, so you'd think it'd be a full blown welcome mat for mice, but we actually get very few, and almost none in the house itself. Having 2 cats helps, but they're not that good!

Ours is @ about 112 years old . . . get mice (a few) every 3 years or so (winter).

 

[Dmacleo]

I just measured 9 inches here and it's about done snowing. So much for the 16-22" they were teasing us with.


The storms seem to be following the coast this year. Points north and west where they depend on snow for skiing and sledding aren't getting it the way they would like to see it.

I ended up with about 12, I'll take the teasing if they over estimate LOL

 

[Oaktree]

When we redid the flooring I pulled out the 30yo baseboards. Filled any holes I found with the low expanding foam.

Installed the new laminate flooring right up to the edge of the drywall. This gave it the gap it needed around the edges. Let it settle in for a couple weeks.

I then dropped in new baseboards right tight to the floor.

Re-did my kitchen maybe 5 years ago, and when I pulled the counter away from the wall discovered a gap ~1½" between the floor and wall. No wonder my wife was complaining about drafts!!
Did the same as you...blocked it off, and filled the space with expand-o foam. There were also a bunch of holes in the floor, probably for gas, plumbing, etc. once upon a time. Glued dowels in to plug them too before we put the new floor down.

Gotta love some of the hack "tradesmen" who'd been there. Whoever put down the flooring for the PO, couldn't be bothered to move the stove, just cut the linoleum around it.

 

[Dftodd]

Re-did my kitchen maybe 5 years ago, and when I pulled the counter away from the wall discovered a gap ~1½" between the floor and wall. No wonder my wife was complaining about drafts!!
Did the same as you...blocked it off, and filled the space with expand-o foam. There were also a bunch of holes in the floor, probably for gas, plumbing, etc. once upon a time. Glued dowels in to plug them too before we put the new floor down.

Gotta love some of the hack "tradesmen" who'd been there. Whoever put down the flooring for the PO, couldn't be bothered to move the stove, just cut the linoleum around it.

The old lady who originally owned our house had a son who was a "Not so handy" handy man

I used the home inspection as a punch list when we moved in. New windows, insulation in the attic. Opened up the kitchen to the dining room. New roof.

Spent 4hrs in the attic putting bare twisted together electrical connections into junction boxes and wiring Nutting the wires.

Found gaps under the door casings from the bottom to the side where mice had a causeway into the house.

Plugged and foam a filled holes where cable was run through the walls.

Filled holes in base cabinets where plumbing came through. Steel wool and foam a fill for those.

Sealed the exterior of the house with foam a fill as well. There were gaps between the siding opening directly into the walls.

Added the insulated inserts to outlet covers and light fixtures.

Added a mini split heat pump to the sun porch. And got rid of the old window unit that was a fire hazard.

Paid off when we sold the house. Electrician had to come and take care of a couple double taps in the breaker box.

Plumber had to replace the emergency pop off line for the water heater. It was under sized. Plumber also replaced the faucets for the washer as well as that drain insert cover.

$380 took care of the plumber and electrician.