Structural foundation repair 101

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:17 pm

Who needs mortar? Duct tape will hold anything together, even a house. Get-R-Done and start on those home renovations. Duct tape is all you need.

Actually, that's just to keep the bugs out, and I'm taking the chance by using it as a cement form for when I pour cement from outside. It *should* hold, but think I'll buy some plywood just to be on the safe side.

By leaving it for a few days enough spider bodies will accumulate on the tape from outside, making it stronger.

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Colors of Wanker · Post by **Colors of Wanker** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:15 am

Whoa wait a minute! You got that serious a spider problem where they will collect enough bodies to help make it more supportable.... uuuuh... the creepy crawly visuals that inspires... i am cringing...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:23 am

Well to give an idea this is how it looked in that crawlspace before.

Actually it's not as bad as you'd think. So far I did not find any nest, just lot of adult spiders, including this one black spider that was overweight, it was kinda funny seeing it bounce around trying to run.

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Colors of Wanker · Post by **Colors of Wanker** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:59 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:Well to give an idea this is how it looked in that crawlspace before.

Actually it's not as bad as you'd think. So far I did not find any nest, just lot of adult spiders, including this one black spider that was overweight, it was kinda funny seeing it bounce around trying to run.

After looking at that picture i am officially horrified!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:27 pm

What is more freaky is the fact that I can now go in there, as I'm in there I'm thinking "it used to be filled with huge cob webs RIGHT where I'm at now". Makes me look around twice to make sure I did a good job.

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geezushhchrist · Post by **geezushhchrist** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:03 pm

ya i found a MO tarantula in my basement

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:30 pm

geezushhchrist wrote:ya i found a MO tarantula in my basement

Holy crap, and I thought this was bad.

I killed a few of these so far, one in the bath (that pic), two next to electrical panel, one in the spider web crawlspace and one inside broken bricks (where duct tape is, but outside). The one in the bricks was the biggest one so far. 3 kicks against the wall to kill it, then squished it with a putty knife and put cement over it.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:15 am

Somebody teach this guy the mix up "mud"
hehe

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