This method uses rodenticide bait (in the form of blocks or pastes) placed inside of tamper-proof boxes. The boxes, called bait stations, are designed to allow rodents to get in and eat the poisoned bait, while keeping it safely out of reach from pets and children. At MMPC, our exterio...
There are a few options here, depending on what works best for you and the carpenter bees that are trying to make your home theirs. Firstly, you can simply place scrap blocks of wood around your yard or home to encourage the carpenter bees to build their homes in them. Untreated softwood...
Some of the walls in that room are plaster over cement cinder blocks and the ceiling is plaster over lathe. Staples don’t stick to either of those very well! So I decided to use the staples for the walls that are drywalled and fabric starch for everything else. But as I found out,...
joining wooden posts to cement or cinder blocks requires the correct hardware and a few simple tricks. There are a number of concrete fasteners available for use in attaching wood to concrete. Some are more effective than others. By far the simplest and most effective in most ...
To escape the brutal cold of winters at his home base of Taliesin in Wisconsin, he migrated his school to Scottsdale during the winter months and called the residence Taliesin West. Built of local stone, redwood, and cement, the compound remains open to the public despite the closing of the...
Asphalt has a different composition than concrete. Concrete, the normal base material for cement blocks, is filled with tiny pores that absorb the cement mud from the block. However, asphalt is composed of a greasy tar material that will not allow good a
Fill small holes with steel wool. Put caulk around the steel wool to keep it in place. Use lath screen or lath metal, cement, hardware cloth, or metal sheeting
Cinder blocks are often used for construction projects to build foundations and other strong structures. Sometimes you may purchase more cinder blocks than you need, requiring you to get rid of the extras. Instead of disposing of these cinder blocks in y
9. Allow yourself and your partner to be vulnerable Do you have a friend that you can share everything and anything? Is it your partner? You might think that there are some things you wouldn’t want your partner to know about, but holding back only blocks the path to a spiritual relati...
How to Make a Concrete Pyramid "GIZA": The first time I started building and molding with cement was at 13, first I make some mini cement bricks and then many ideas and builds come to my mind, I had built some of them like an old well and a small buildin