Thread: Bloody Whiteants

Jayzuz, my heart really bleeds for you.

This bathroom has been done twice already, the highly recommended lady tiler really stuffed it up banging the hell out of a single brick wall.(way back in the days of yore & post WW2, single brick walls were the norm but hard rendered inside to keep the moisture out which worked provided that wasn't breached)

In her haste to please us & get the job done promptly (although we did have the luxury of an On- site Mobile Bathroom) she belted **** out of the walls to remove the olde tiles if they didn't move then she got a bigger hammer & then a bigger hammer with consequential cracking of the corner of the building & she had been advised about this but we were out for the day, (who wouldn't have been?)

Longish story short, the insurers got involved & appointed another builder type. because of it & you'd never believe it but they also used big FO Hammers but their damage didn't show up until well after they finished.
So to maintain the old integrity of the house & our sanity we tolerated it but know we shouldn't have but now there are not one but two copper pipe saddles bridging the crack & holding the house together.. Adds character & is a conversation topic.

The Plumber's offsider then promptly chipped the new Vanity top when assembling one of the taps. Denied it of course, as they do when they are caught red handed, when I walked in after hearing a new noise & him looking sheepish holding a slip wrench but quick as a flash it was "not me, it was there when I unpacked it". Trade school training paying off you see.
Today I fortunately did not drop a chisel or hammer etc on the remaining tiles so that has to be a win but I did buy a spare carton for the just in case time in years to come.

A week or two later the floor trap choked up & was found to be full of chippings from the floor tile removal #2 so that had to be hi-pressure cleared by someone. Boss Tiler..." But I told my blokes to protect the drain & cover it up". "Deaf are they" was my retort.


White ants? Pfffwewwwww! Be my guest. Amateur. But best wishes for your success but don't for christ's sake get A TILER OR A PLUMBER IN.

I am slowly getting there, Now I will have to do a fair bit of Bogging up and some tiling then a lick of paint and I am off to Sharks Bay for a week

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Trout
is that a new white ant next to the toilet roll on the floor, just come in for a look
cheers
blaze

Originally Posted by bblaze

Trout
is that a new white ant next to the toilet roll on the floor, just come in for a look
cheers
blaze

No Mate I sprayed the hell out of everything in there with the same deadly stuff the pest controller used after I had removed all the buggered timber before I started the reno So NOTHING will ever live in there again for a few years

So bang goes the idea of sitting on the throne for an hour or two reading the Racing Results.

Originally Posted by 4bee

So bang goes the idea of sitting on the throne for an hour or two reading the Racing Results.

That will eventually happen

Originally Posted by LRJim

A termite sprayer told me that they love Oregon, cant get enough of it apparently.
On my block there is termites everywhere, i wouldnt build a house out of timber there unless its T treated. Anyway what ive done with all the posts and rails that ive milled there out of yellow stringbark is treat them with 50- 50 turps and linseed oil, then another coat or 2 of linseed again. I havnt had a problem with them yet and the linseed looks awesome

Jim we used 50/50 Turps and Linseed Oil on our place, not for white ants, just for weatherproofing and aesthetics.
We have Western Red Cedar ceilings, doors, and windows. The 50/50 concoction certainly brings the colour and grain out in the cedar.
For the verandah posts which are Oregon I use another "concoction," and they are on stainless steel stirrups, 75mm above ground level.
The stirrups are sealed (I made them myself) to prevent the white ants crawling up the centre.

Cheers, Mick.

Originally Posted by mick88

The stirrups are sealed (I made them myself) to prevent the white ants crawling up the centre.

Thats a great idea! At least then they will expose themselves!
Thats why they made ant caps for house stumps, not that i have ever seen any on a redgum stumped house. The point of them was to bring the ants out of the timber and expose themselves on the metal cap, not that anyone would have ever checked there antcaps for ants....
These days with concrete stumps they are pointless but we still need to put them on, someone in the VBA needs to change the codes.

Cheers Jim