At the moment...

I get a lot of calls from customers wanting to know what to expect this season.  When to expect me for services and so on.  If that's you then this is the place to find out what's going on "at the moment".

It looks like winter may be over.  I know that the groundhog said six more weeks, and I hate to contradict such a well respected rodent, but given that I just raked up my yard in shirt sleeves and the fact that I have scheduled several jobs for the next few days when the phone doesn't usually ring until April, I'm thinking that maybe the good folks of Punxatawney, PA need to get a new rat.   

As the weather breaks I'll be catching up on the second half of some Real Estate related, two-part termite jobs done in the winter.  You can't effectively pump chemicals into frozen soil so we do a topical application indoors when the house is sold and then come back for the outside once the ground thaws.  Folks who have TSP will see me about the middle of April.  (If you owe me any money from last year, please try to get that caught up before I start the Spring services.  I hate to be a bookkeeper.)

Incidentally, I have been asked why I don't have a Twitter or Facebook page for CPC.  I may put something together for Facebook, only because it seems to be becomming de rigeur, but I sure hope there is nobody out there who would actually want to follow me on Twitter.  That's just creepy.

Spring 2010

COOL PICS BELOW !!!

RIGHT  Grey squirrels often get into chimneys and can't climb back out.  I reached up through the flue with my digital camera and shot a few pics just to make sure he was in there then baited a trap down below in the fireplace to get him to come down where I could remove him. 

BELOW  Garage doors are often installed so that the casing on the edges is buried in the soil.  This is just a wick for termites.  THIS garage door is installed correctly! .

ABOVE  Ordinarily there is no point in drilling across the front of that garage since there is no structural wood there, but this door is permanently bolted shut and insulated to create a solid wall.  By drilling every foot and a half or so we can inject termiticide into the soil below.  Afterwards, holes are filled with matching sealant. 

ABOVE RIGHT This shows some exposed studding in the same building.  The destruction of the termites is apparent in the center stud to the right of the photo.

ABOVE  This Yellow Jacket nest was all abuzz when I flipped the Little Tykes Play Set on it's side.  The nest was directly under where the slide connected to the main body of the set.  A painfiul playdate that would have been!  Size reference:  Slightly smaller than a soccer ball. 

ABOVE and RIGHT Yellow jackets co-opted this bird house on a client property.  Oddly, the birds chose to move out.  There goes the neighborhood!