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 06-03-2003, 18:19 Post: 56516
Chuckles
2003-06-03 00:00:00
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  Bats in the Gables

I had a similiar problem with bats, and faced the same expensive remediation costs of about $1500 to stuff some material all around the edge of my house.

Well I was talking to a painter and warned him about the bats. He said that when they powerwash the house with house chemicals the bats are ususally casualties, and are gone while they paint.

Since I was not ready to hire the painter, but the wife was bugging the heck out of me on the bats I came up with a low cost alternative.

So, here is what I did. I took a garden hose and attached it to a 25 foot pole, I put a high pressure nozzle ($3 bucks) on the end. I emptied the hose, got a funnel, and then poured Clorox into a 50 foot length. Put on safety goggles, hosted up my contraption, aimed, turned on the water valve, fired, on the gable, 30-40 bats came flying out.

Have not seen them since !






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 06-06-2003, 21:19 Post: 56984
Chuckles
2003-06-06 00:00:00
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  Bats in the Gables

Well we had about 40-50 bats up there. I could seem them flyin all over the place at dusk doing there bug catching chores which I certainly appreciated.

Only thing was they would fly right up to us in their flight pattern since our deck is one story up. And it made it miserable to sit outside with them swooping all over near by.

Then if we tied up out Market umbrella they would move in and pounds of turds on my office window were none to pretty.

But now with the lack of welcome I showed them there are none to be seen in the night skys anymore, though the bugs so far have not been so bad given how wet it has been and no bats to kill them.

Yet the main driver was the wife's nagging to get me to spend a couple grand to shoo em when a bottle of clorox did the job.






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