"none" <atticrat@sysmatrix.net> wrote in message
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> Dee Dee wrote:
>> After the postings about moths, and never have had any, but seen dear
>> m-i-l's moths, I decided I'd better take a bit of a precaution as I have
>> some buckets of pasta, rice and flour on a floor. I bought some today.
>>
>> My flour is probably not in the best place,
>> http://tinypic.com/67d3fcw.jpg Underneath the floor is a crawlspace.
>> I think I'll put one to the right and/or left of the buckets on the
>> floor. Does that look like the reasonable thing to do?
>> Dee Dee
>
> You seem to have everything sealed up pretty well, so even if one bucket
> became infested (or if there were insect eggs in it when you bought it - I
> suspect corn meal has that problem) the problem shouldn't spread.
>
> I have a similarly disgusting problem here. My job was relocated to
> another city, so for temporary housing I purchased an older mobile-home in
> one of the better parks in the area. The previous owner was a cat-owner,
> and not into cleanliness, but I didn't discover that until the sale was
> complete. The seller left no forwarding address.
> I may have to rip out a lot of carpet, just to be able to taste my food
> without the faint, lingering taint of cat-urine odor...
> The smell is even in the refrigerator!
I can't tell you all the problems we had with our house we bought some years
ago and are still living in now. It was so infested with fleas in the
carpet (we did not see these until we started ripping out the carpets) that
we had to keep buckets of water and duct tape handy to rip them off our
legs. We had to have exterminators in at least 3x before we could get rid
of them.
The cats had urinated along three bedroom walls and we had to rip out the
flooring and subfloring and have it replaced before we could move in.
Luckily we had an RV that we stayed in. It took us from July until October
to get this home in shape. A very nice home, too; we completely missed
it --
You have my pity!
Dee Dee