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I just laugh at myself, thinking this would be a two-week job. It turned into most of a month. But, as is often the case with remodels, once we got started it became very clear that the easiest thing to do is rip the entire thing out to the studs and redo everything.
Luckily, my contractor friend will let me pay him after my work season is over in July, otherwise I never could've afforded this. Glad I did it! The rat nest under the bathtub and in the wall was so out of control. In the process, we also entirely redid all the plumbing under the whole house, and fixed a bunch of sketchy wiring, so the benefits go way beyond the bathroom.
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I just laugh at myself, thinking this would be a two-week job. It turned into most of a month. But, as is often the case with remodels, once we got started it became very clear that the easiest thing to do is rip the entire thing out to the studs and redo everything.
Luckily, my contractor friend will let me pay him after my work season is over in July, otherwise I never could've afforded this. Glad I did it! The rat nest under the bathtub and in the wall was so out of control. In the process, we also entirely redid all the plumbing under the whole house, and fixed a bunch of sketchy wiring, so the benefits go way beyond the bathroom.
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I just laugh at myself, thinking this would be a two-week job. It turned into most of a month. But, as is often the case with remodels, once we got started it became very clear that the easiest thing to do is rip the entire thing out to the studs and redo everything.
Luckily, my contractor friend will let me pay him after my work season is over in July, otherwise I never could've afforded this. Glad I did it! The rat nest under the bathtub and in the wall was so out of control. In the process, we also entirely redid all the plumbing under the whole house, and fixed a bunch of sketchy wiring, so the benefits go way beyond the bathroom.
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I just laugh at myself, thinking this would be a two-week job. It turned into most of a month. But, as is often the case with remodels, once we got started it became very clear that the easiest thing to do is rip the entire thing out to the studs and redo everything.
Luckily, my contractor friend will let me pay him after my work season is over in July, otherwise I never could've afforded this. Glad I did it! The rat nest under the bathtub and in the wall was so out of control. In the process, we also entirely redid all the plumbing under the whole house, and fixed a bunch of sketchy wiring, so the benefits go way beyond the bathroom.
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I just laugh at myself, thinking this would be a two-week job. It turned into most of a month. But, as is often the case with remodels, once we got started it became very clear that the easiest thing to do is rip the entire thing out to the studs and redo everything.
Luckily, my contractor friend will let me pay him after my work season is over in July, otherwise I never could've afforded this. Glad I did it! The rat nest under the bathtub and in the wall was so out of control. In the process, we also entirely redid all the plumbing under the whole house, and fixed a bunch of sketchy wiring, so the benefits go way beyond the bathroom.
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#RatShitRemodel
I still need to pick out a flooring material and pattern and decide on the paint color for the walls. The original hundred year-old bead board that we took off the walls will get cleaned up and recycled as wainscoting up to the 4 foot level. Above that, the sheet rock will be painted.I need to find a nice mirror and a few other things that I'm going to look for used.
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#RatShitRemodel
I still need to pick out a flooring material and pattern and decide on the paint color for the walls. The original hundred year-old bead board that we took off the walls will get cleaned up and recycled as wainscoting up to the 4 foot level. Above that, the sheet rock will be painted.I need to find a nice mirror and a few other things that I'm going to look for used.
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#RatShitRemodel
I still need to pick out a flooring material and pattern and decide on the paint color for the walls. The original hundred year-old bead board that we took off the walls will get cleaned up and recycled as wainscoting up to the 4 foot level. Above that, the sheet rock will be painted.I need to find a nice mirror and a few other things that I'm going to look for used.
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#RatShitRemodel
I still need to pick out a flooring material and pattern and decide on the paint color for the walls. The original hundred year-old bead board that we took off the walls will get cleaned up and recycled as wainscoting up to the 4 foot level. Above that, the sheet rock will be painted.I need to find a nice mirror and a few other things that I'm going to look for used.
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#RatShitRemodel
I still need to pick out a flooring material and pattern and decide on the paint color for the walls. The original hundred year-old bead board that we took off the walls will get cleaned up and recycled as wainscoting up to the 4 foot level. Above that, the sheet rock will be painted.I need to find a nice mirror and a few other things that I'm going to look for used.
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#RatShitRemodel concludes (for now).
My contractor friend has to leave, and I'm getting ready to snowbird my way back north pretty soon, but we have the bathroom at a stage where it can quickly be completed when I get back.
The shower pan is in, the plumbing is all done, the wiring has all been upgraded, the sheet rock and insulation are done. (I finished that today.) There's no window because we just ran the sheetrock straight over the old one for now. Once the new one arrives, we will reframe the rough opening cut the sheetrock back around it.
The faucet and the handles on the vanity are not installed yet, obviously, but they're a nice looking, classy design in flat black. The shower will have a sliding glass door and we put in a lot of blocking for things like towel racks, grab bars and shelving.
It is purple, because that's the color of moisture resistant sheet rock. Depending on the brand, it also comes in green or blue.
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#RatShitRemodel concludes (for now).
My contractor friend has to leave, and I'm getting ready to snowbird my way back north pretty soon, but we have the bathroom at a stage where it can quickly be completed when I get back.
The shower pan is in, the plumbing is all done, the wiring has all been upgraded, the sheet rock and insulation are done. (I finished that today.) There's no window because we just ran the sheetrock straight over the old one for now. Once the new one arrives, we will reframe the rough opening cut the sheetrock back around it.
The faucet and the handles on the vanity are not installed yet, obviously, but they're a nice looking, classy design in flat black. The shower will have a sliding glass door and we put in a lot of blocking for things like towel racks, grab bars and shelving.
It is purple, because that's the color of moisture resistant sheet rock. Depending on the brand, it also comes in green or blue.
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#RatShitRemodel concludes (for now).
My contractor friend has to leave, and I'm getting ready to snowbird my way back north pretty soon, but we have the bathroom at a stage where it can quickly be completed when I get back.
The shower pan is in, the plumbing is all done, the wiring has all been upgraded, the sheet rock and insulation are done. (I finished that today.) There's no window because we just ran the sheetrock straight over the old one for now. Once the new one arrives, we will reframe the rough opening cut the sheetrock back around it.
The faucet and the handles on the vanity are not installed yet, obviously, but they're a nice looking, classy design in flat black. The shower will have a sliding glass door and we put in a lot of blocking for things like towel racks, grab bars and shelving.
It is purple, because that's the color of moisture resistant sheet rock. Depending on the brand, it also comes in green or blue.
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#RatShitRemodel concludes (for now).
My contractor friend has to leave, and I'm getting ready to snowbird my way back north pretty soon, but we have the bathroom at a stage where it can quickly be completed when I get back.
The shower pan is in, the plumbing is all done, the wiring has all been upgraded, the sheet rock and insulation are done. (I finished that today.) There's no window because we just ran the sheetrock straight over the old one for now. Once the new one arrives, we will reframe the rough opening cut the sheetrock back around it.
The faucet and the handles on the vanity are not installed yet, obviously, but they're a nice looking, classy design in flat black. The shower will have a sliding glass door and we put in a lot of blocking for things like towel racks, grab bars and shelving.
It is purple, because that's the color of moisture resistant sheet rock. Depending on the brand, it also comes in green or blue.
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#RatShitRemodel concludes (for now).
My contractor friend has to leave, and I'm getting ready to snowbird my way back north pretty soon, but we have the bathroom at a stage where it can quickly be completed when I get back.
The shower pan is in, the plumbing is all done, the wiring has all been upgraded, the sheet rock and insulation are done. (I finished that today.) There's no window because we just ran the sheetrock straight over the old one for now. Once the new one arrives, we will reframe the rough opening cut the sheetrock back around it.
The faucet and the handles on the vanity are not installed yet, obviously, but they're a nice looking, classy design in flat black. The shower will have a sliding glass door and we put in a lot of blocking for things like towel racks, grab bars and shelving.
It is purple, because that's the color of moisture resistant sheet rock. Depending on the brand, it also comes in green or blue.
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In the process of doing the #RatShitRemodel we piled a bunch of old building material debris on a tarp in the backyard. I mentioned in a previous #LizardReport that Cutie has taken to hiding in there and has got big white streaks of sheet rock dust on her back.
This afternoon, when loading everything up on the trailer to take to the dump tomorrow, I was very careful. Good thing, because, sure enough, she was down near the bottom of the pile and was able to scoot away without getting hurt.
Here's Cutie sitting on her wall in the backyard, showing off her sheet rock dust tattoo.
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In the process of doing the #RatShitRemodel we piled a bunch of old building material debris on a tarp in the backyard. I mentioned in a previous #LizardReport that Cutie has taken to hiding in there and has got big white streaks of sheet rock dust on her back.
This afternoon, when loading everything up on the trailer to take to the dump tomorrow, I was very careful. Good thing, because, sure enough, she was down near the bottom of the pile and was able to scoot away without getting hurt.
Here's Cutie sitting on her wall in the backyard, showing off her sheet rock dust tattoo.
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In the process of doing the #RatShitRemodel we piled a bunch of old building material debris on a tarp in the backyard. I mentioned in a previous #LizardReport that Cutie has taken to hiding in there and has got big white streaks of sheet rock dust on her back.
This afternoon, when loading everything up on the trailer to take to the dump tomorrow, I was very careful. Good thing, because, sure enough, she was down near the bottom of the pile and was able to scoot away without getting hurt.
Here's Cutie sitting on her wall in the backyard, showing off her sheet rock dust tattoo.
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In the process of doing the #RatShitRemodel we piled a bunch of old building material debris on a tarp in the backyard. I mentioned in a previous #LizardReport that Cutie has taken to hiding in there and has got big white streaks of sheet rock dust on her back.
This afternoon, when loading everything up on the trailer to take to the dump tomorrow, I was very careful. Good thing, because, sure enough, she was down near the bottom of the pile and was able to scoot away without getting hurt.
Here's Cutie sitting on her wall in the backyard, showing off her sheet rock dust tattoo.
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In the process of doing the #RatShitRemodel we piled a bunch of old building material debris on a tarp in the backyard. I mentioned in a previous #LizardReport that Cutie has taken to hiding in there and has got big white streaks of sheet rock dust on her back.
This afternoon, when loading everything up on the trailer to take to the dump tomorrow, I was very careful. Good thing, because, sure enough, she was down near the bottom of the pile and was able to scoot away without getting hurt.
Here's Cutie sitting on her wall in the backyard, showing off her sheet rock dust tattoo.
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These lizards! I give them all the best advice but they never listen! As part of the #RatShitRemodel we have accumulated a large pile of construction debris, including sheet rock scraps. I keep telling Bill and Cutie to stay out of there.
Do you think they listen to me?
Cutie now has a bunch of sheet rock dust on her scales. She's friendly enough to sit in my hand, but not friendly enough to let me brush her off. She is just going to have to live with the consequences of her bad choices. How else will they learn?
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These lizards! I give them all the best advice but they never listen! As part of the #RatShitRemodel we have accumulated a large pile of construction debris, including sheet rock scraps. I keep telling Bill and Cutie to stay out of there.
Do you think they listen to me?
Cutie now has a bunch of sheet rock dust on her scales. She's friendly enough to sit in my hand, but not friendly enough to let me brush her off. She is just going to have to live with the consequences of her bad choices. How else will they learn?
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These lizards! I give them all the best advice but they never listen! As part of the #RatShitRemodel we have accumulated a large pile of construction debris, including sheet rock scraps. I keep telling Bill and Cutie to stay out of there.
Do you think they listen to me?
Cutie now has a bunch of sheet rock dust on her scales. She's friendly enough to sit in my hand, but not friendly enough to let me brush her off. She is just going to have to live with the consequences of her bad choices. How else will they learn?
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These lizards! I give them all the best advice but they never listen! As part of the #RatShitRemodel we have accumulated a large pile of construction debris, including sheet rock scraps. I keep telling Bill and Cutie to stay out of there.
Do you think they listen to me?
Cutie now has a bunch of sheet rock dust on her scales. She's friendly enough to sit in my hand, but not friendly enough to let me brush her off. She is just going to have to live with the consequences of her bad choices. How else will they learn?
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These lizards! I give them all the best advice but they never listen! As part of the #RatShitRemodel we have accumulated a large pile of construction debris, including sheet rock scraps. I keep telling Bill and Cutie to stay out of there.
Do you think they listen to me?
Cutie now has a bunch of sheet rock dust on her scales. She's friendly enough to sit in my hand, but not friendly enough to let me brush her off. She is just going to have to live with the consequences of her bad choices. How else will they learn?
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#RatShitRemodel
"How it started; how it's going" (sincere)Tomorrow we are going to get the shower pan and drain set.
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#RatShitRemodel
"How it started; how it's going" (sincere)Tomorrow we are going to get the shower pan and drain set.
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#RatShitRemodel
"How it started; how it's going" (sincere)Tomorrow we are going to get the shower pan and drain set.
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#RatShitRemodel
"How it started; how it's going" (sincere)Tomorrow we are going to get the shower pan and drain set.
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#RatShitRemodel
"How it started; how it's going" (sincere)Tomorrow we are going to get the shower pan and drain set.
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Bill now often can be found chilling on this rock just outside the back fence in the morning. Such a handsome boy. Cutie sometimes hangs out there too.
I've been doing a bunch of work, part of the #RatShitRemodel, up in the nasty attic, so I have been in a white suit with a hat and respirator much of the last couple of days. As an experiment, I walked up to the low wall in the backyard where Cutie hangs out. There's no way she could have recognized me from any other person other than I did say "hi cutie." She didn't immediately run away, so this suggests to me that she's now associating all bipedal hominids with lack of danger and source of food, even if we look like ghosts.
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Bill now often can be found chilling on this rock just outside the back fence in the morning. Such a handsome boy. Cutie sometimes hangs out there too.
I've been doing a bunch of work, part of the #RatShitRemodel, up in the nasty attic, so I have been in a white suit with a hat and respirator much of the last couple of days. As an experiment, I walked up to the low wall in the backyard where Cutie hangs out. There's no way she could have recognized me from any other person other than I did say "hi cutie." She didn't immediately run away, so this suggests to me that she's now associating all bipedal hominids with lack of danger and source of food, even if we look like ghosts.
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Bill now often can be found chilling on this rock just outside the back fence in the morning. Such a handsome boy. Cutie sometimes hangs out there too.
I've been doing a bunch of work, part of the #RatShitRemodel, up in the nasty attic, so I have been in a white suit with a hat and respirator much of the last couple of days. As an experiment, I walked up to the low wall in the backyard where Cutie hangs out. There's no way she could have recognized me from any other person other than I did say "hi cutie." She didn't immediately run away, so this suggests to me that she's now associating all bipedal hominids with lack of danger and source of food, even if we look like ghosts.
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Bill now often can be found chilling on this rock just outside the back fence in the morning. Such a handsome boy. Cutie sometimes hangs out there too.
I've been doing a bunch of work, part of the #RatShitRemodel, up in the nasty attic, so I have been in a white suit with a hat and respirator much of the last couple of days. As an experiment, I walked up to the low wall in the backyard where Cutie hangs out. There's no way she could have recognized me from any other person other than I did say "hi cutie." She didn't immediately run away, so this suggests to me that she's now associating all bipedal hominids with lack of danger and source of food, even if we look like ghosts.
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Bill now often can be found chilling on this rock just outside the back fence in the morning. Such a handsome boy. Cutie sometimes hangs out there too.
I've been doing a bunch of work, part of the #RatShitRemodel, up in the nasty attic, so I have been in a white suit with a hat and respirator much of the last couple of days. As an experiment, I walked up to the low wall in the backyard where Cutie hangs out. There's no way she could have recognized me from any other person other than I did say "hi cutie." She didn't immediately run away, so this suggests to me that she's now associating all bipedal hominids with lack of danger and source of food, even if we look like ghosts.
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Are there any #linoleum or historical patterns geeks on here? Of three layers of floor coverings removed in the #RatShitRemodel, this is the earliest and I'm curious if anybody can tell when it dates from or if there's anything interesting and special about it. The house was apparently built in 1945.
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Are there any #linoleum or historical patterns geeks on here? Of three layers of floor coverings removed in the #RatShitRemodel, this is the earliest and I'm curious if anybody can tell when it dates from or if there's anything interesting and special about it. The house was apparently built in 1945.
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Are there any #linoleum or historical patterns geeks on here? Of three layers of floor coverings removed in the #RatShitRemodel, this is the earliest and I'm curious if anybody can tell when it dates from or if there's anything interesting and special about it. The house was apparently built in 1945.
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Are there any #linoleum or historical patterns geeks on here? Of three layers of floor coverings removed in the #RatShitRemodel, this is the earliest and I'm curious if anybody can tell when it dates from or if there's anything interesting and special about it. The house was apparently built in 1945.
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Are there any #linoleum or historical patterns geeks on here? Of three layers of floor coverings removed in the #RatShitRemodel, this is the earliest and I'm curious if anybody can tell when it dates from or if there's anything interesting and special about it. The house was apparently built in 1945.
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The #RatShitRemodel is proceeding apace. I did the last of the demolition today while Michael got all the plumbing hooked up (pics TK tomorrow, not yet in this photo). I found a remnant of the original knob-and-tube wiring from the 1940s when I tore open the wall. I'm leaving a little chunk in there.
Photo shows the open floor joists after we sistered new ones onto the old ones and soaked the old ones in linseed oil (why they're so dark) just to make them last a little longer, but even the ones that have been subjected to plumbing leaks had considerable integrity. I wouldn't normally have bothered to do this, but I had some old linseed oil I wanted to get rid of and this seemed like a good use for it.
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The #RatShitRemodel is proceeding apace. I did the last of the demolition today while Michael got all the plumbing hooked up (pics TK tomorrow, not yet in this photo). I found a remnant of the original knob-and-tube wiring from the 1940s when I tore open the wall. I'm leaving a little chunk in there.
Photo shows the open floor joists after we sistered new ones onto the old ones and soaked the old ones in linseed oil (why they're so dark) just to make them last a little longer, but even the ones that have been subjected to plumbing leaks had considerable integrity. I wouldn't normally have bothered to do this, but I had some old linseed oil I wanted to get rid of and this seemed like a good use for it.
#remodel -
The #RatShitRemodel is proceeding apace. I did the last of the demolition today while Michael got all the plumbing hooked up (pics TK tomorrow, not yet in this photo). I found a remnant of the original knob-and-tube wiring from the 1940s when I tore open the wall. I'm leaving a little chunk in there.
Photo shows the open floor joists after we sistered new ones onto the old ones and soaked the old ones in linseed oil (why they're so dark) just to make them last a little longer, but even the ones that have been subjected to plumbing leaks had considerable integrity. I wouldn't normally have bothered to do this, but I had some old linseed oil I wanted to get rid of and this seemed like a good use for it.
#remodel -
The #RatShitRemodel is proceeding apace. I did the last of the demolition today while Michael got all the plumbing hooked up (pics TK tomorrow, not yet in this photo). I found a remnant of the original knob-and-tube wiring from the 1940s when I tore open the wall. I'm leaving a little chunk in there.
Photo shows the open floor joists after we sistered new ones onto the old ones and soaked the old ones in linseed oil (why they're so dark) just to make them last a little longer, but even the ones that have been subjected to plumbing leaks had considerable integrity. I wouldn't normally have bothered to do this, but I had some old linseed oil I wanted to get rid of and this seemed like a good use for it.
#remodel -
The #RatShitRemodel is proceeding apace. I did the last of the demolition today while Michael got all the plumbing hooked up (pics TK tomorrow, not yet in this photo). I found a remnant of the original knob-and-tube wiring from the 1940s when I tore open the wall. I'm leaving a little chunk in there.
Photo shows the open floor joists after we sistered new ones onto the old ones and soaked the old ones in linseed oil (why they're so dark) just to make them last a little longer, but even the ones that have been subjected to plumbing leaks had considerable integrity. I wouldn't normally have bothered to do this, but I had some old linseed oil I wanted to get rid of and this seemed like a good use for it.
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Next scene: lower the snake through the window and into the bucket.
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Next scene: lower the snake through the window and into the bucket.
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Next scene: lower the snake through the window and into the bucket.
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Next scene: lower the snake through the window and into the bucket.
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Next scene: lower the snake through the window and into the bucket.
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Here's me with my makeshift broom noose after I got the snake and crawled up out of the crawlspace.
I was all suited up because of the heavy dust and rat turds under there. It was ...a day.
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Here's me with my makeshift broom noose after I got the snake and crawled up out of the crawlspace.
I was all suited up because of the heavy dust and rat turds under there. It was ...a day.
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Here's me with my makeshift broom noose after I got the snake and crawled up out of the crawlspace.
I was all suited up because of the heavy dust and rat turds under there. It was ...a day.
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Here's me with my makeshift broom noose after I got the snake and crawled up out of the crawlspace.
I was all suited up because of the heavy dust and rat turds under there. It was ...a day.
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Here's me with my makeshift broom noose after I got the snake and crawled up out of the crawlspace.
I was all suited up because of the heavy dust and rat turds under there. It was ...a day.
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So here's an interesting note on the rattlesnake under the house. Even though snakes can swallow some massive things, I'm pretty sure that packrat I evicted by hand a few days ago was far too big for this snake.
On the other hand, I was commenting to my builder friend here today that I haven't seen any mice in the house for a couple of years, despite there being gaps under the doors and elsewhere that mice can definitely get through. Even when I go away for a couple months, there is no mouse poop when I come back.
I think it's pretty reasonable to assume the snake was happily chowing down on them.
So, while I have evicted the rat, I also evicted the creature that was most likely keeping the smaller rodents away.
Maybe I can convince a gopher snake to take its place.
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So here's an interesting note on the rattlesnake under the house. Even though snakes can swallow some massive things, I'm pretty sure that packrat I evicted by hand a few days ago was far too big for this snake.
On the other hand, I was commenting to my builder friend here today that I haven't seen any mice in the house for a couple of years, despite there being gaps under the doors and elsewhere that mice can definitely get through. Even when I go away for a couple months, there is no mouse poop when I come back.
I think it's pretty reasonable to assume the snake was happily chowing down on them.
So, while I have evicted the rat, I also evicted the creature that was most likely keeping the smaller rodents away.
Maybe I can convince a gopher snake to take its place.
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So here's an interesting note on the rattlesnake under the house. Even though snakes can swallow some massive things, I'm pretty sure that packrat I evicted by hand a few days ago was far too big for this snake.
On the other hand, I was commenting to my builder friend here today that I haven't seen any mice in the house for a couple of years, despite there being gaps under the doors and elsewhere that mice can definitely get through. Even when I go away for a couple months, there is no mouse poop when I come back.
I think it's pretty reasonable to assume the snake was happily chowing down on them.
So, while I have evicted the rat, I also evicted the creature that was most likely keeping the smaller rodents away.
Maybe I can convince a gopher snake to take its place.
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So here's an interesting note on the rattlesnake under the house. Even though snakes can swallow some massive things, I'm pretty sure that packrat I evicted by hand a few days ago was far too big for this snake.
On the other hand, I was commenting to my builder friend here today that I haven't seen any mice in the house for a couple of years, despite there being gaps under the doors and elsewhere that mice can definitely get through. Even when I go away for a couple months, there is no mouse poop when I come back.
I think it's pretty reasonable to assume the snake was happily chowing down on them.
So, while I have evicted the rat, I also evicted the creature that was most likely keeping the smaller rodents away.
Maybe I can convince a gopher snake to take its place.
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So here's an interesting note on the rattlesnake under the house. Even though snakes can swallow some massive things, I'm pretty sure that packrat I evicted by hand a few days ago was far too big for this snake.
On the other hand, I was commenting to my builder friend here today that I haven't seen any mice in the house for a couple of years, despite there being gaps under the doors and elsewhere that mice can definitely get through. Even when I go away for a couple months, there is no mouse poop when I come back.
I think it's pretty reasonable to assume the snake was happily chowing down on them.
So, while I have evicted the rat, I also evicted the creature that was most likely keeping the smaller rodents away.
Maybe I can convince a gopher snake to take its place.