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Dana has very good info and is appreciated.
I was thinking of boric acid also.
Thanks to both of you.

I had to rip threw most of the walls to redo the electric and there isn't any insulation in the walls. I'm putting paper backed fiberglass.
Lets go back to the first question.
I want to put...

Walls. There is none. Remove all sheet rock interior walls insulate and replace the sheet rock. All above grade. Haven't gotten to the crawl space yet. As long as crawl space was mentioned what is...

I am going to insulate all my exterior walls and replace the dry wall. What is the best thing to put in them or in the bottom of them to keep the ants from coming in from the crawl space?
I heard...

I built a vanity for the bathroom and my wife wants to be white.
I primed it and used wall paint for it with a airless sprayer it came out textured not smooth so I thinned it down and tried a my air...

Thanks for the info.

Fiberglass has facer but it is just stuffed in.
No paper or felt .
Brown board is just that pressed fiber from the 60s.
Brick space is about 2". Weep holes yes, vented at top I think.

Composite window sills

Hadie board, glass insulation, 1/2 " brown board, brick.

Shower exterior wall I live in east Tn.
I put up Hardie board on the inside of the exterior wall of the shower and going to put tile over that. I plan to use Aqua Defense on the Hardie board before...

Just a badly burned pot of food on the stove. I washes the walls and ceiling but it still stinks.

It has a vinyl window but wood around the inside of it, or should I say rotted wood. I am going to remodel the bath room and want to make the shower area water proof.

Who do I get the smell of smoke out of a house?

No pic. it's just a window in the exterior wall of a shower and the surround comes about half way up the window.

I have a bathroom with a window in the exterior shower wall. I have to wrap the window with something and have a sill (inside the shower enclosure) Years ago I think in Fl. I saw that looked like...

I just had my attic insulation I need to put soffit vents in it yet. I looked in it from the soffit end the blown insulation doesn't meet the roof at any place on the exterior wall.
Shouldn't it go...

I just had insulation blown in the attic space and am about to put new soffit and fascia on.
I want to put vents at the suffix end of the roof the Styrofoam ones.
Do I need to put one between each...

I think the main thing is that a 2X4 isn't meant to span 14'

Ya! In Tn. There isn't much for code enforcement.

This is the first house I have seen that doesn't have the W web built into the trusses. House built in the mid 60s, 24' wide.
The bottom chord is still level and the top chord is sagged by the...

I am going to re-roof my house I need trust struts added, there are none in a 24' span and the roof sages in spots. 2X4s run from exterior wall to exterior wall and from exterior wall to the roof...

I need to put insulation in the attic. I want to bring it to about R30.
Which is better Bats or blown?

I have mt solar panel just about ready to go on the roof.
Is there a way to keep it from steeling cool air from my shop in the summer and to keep it cool?
Block off the in and out air flow I would...

Thanks
Lee

What size holes for air flow with a fan should I put in the sides of the solar panel?