Sunday, May 5, 2013

Not Much Happening

I have not gotten too far with the dishwasher installation. Robin, my niece from Alberta and her partner George dropped in on Friday. We had a great visit accompanied by fish and chips from Dick's down at the dock. They were in Courtenay for a birthday party and had a free day. It is always fun when they are here.

I got George to help me carry the old dishwasher out of the house and from there is went down to the end of the driveway with a "Free" sign on it. It dissapeared within two hours. Someone will either replace all the chewed parts themselves to get it working or remove the stainless steel for scrap.

Yesterday I screwed quarter inch plywood over every possible rodent size opening to keep them away from the new Bosch and will tackle that installation job today.

7 comments:

  1. Rodents will chew through plywood in no time. Use hardware cloth.

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  2. I used to stuff holes and cracks with steel wool.

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  3. Everything else is wood. Floor, walls, ceiling. If they want in, they will get in. They got into the dishwasher through a much too large hole in the floor for plumbing under the sink. I screwed a piece of tin over that to keep them out. The other places I used plywood were just passageways under the wood cabinets. I think I will be OK now. Lots of evidence everywhere but no holes chewed (that I could see).

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  4. You can only do so much. As you said, if they want in they'll find a way. Looks like you're having good weather, enjoy!

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  5. Left over thin-set for putting down tile is a dandy hole sealer. I pour the extra into quart sauce jars to keep it fresh until needed. The stuff works great for patching wet plaster, pointing up brick work(it takes color well, I always buy the bright white). The big holes are done with a board with about an inch of half set mud spread onto the board. If you need to use the hole again for wire or pipe, a hammer blow puts it right.

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