BYC Café

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

The garage doors and openers went in yesterday but I didn't have time to install the receptacles for the openers. I ran the wiring after the crew left but by the time I was ready to kill the power to the sub-panel and install the new circuit and hook it up, it got really dark and started pouring. That's when I noticed the wasps around the mudroom stairs.
I used a Trex railing that was not angled for stairs by inserting baluster pegs between the holes on the top rail and flipped the bottom rail upsidedown so the holes weren't visible.
Weren't visible to humans. The wasps found them and put nests in both rails. I shot what wasp killer I had left up a hole in each rail and, man, were there a lot of wasps in there!
This is just a small number of them. I counted 28 dead on the steps and ground and at least that many more flew off that must have gotten some of the wasp killer on them so they've died elsewhere.

When I get time, I'm going to clean off the bottoms of the rails and just tape them over with black electrical tape so the wasps can't get in.
I installed the rails when it was about 20 degrees out so wasps weren't exactly on my mind.

 

[cheepteach]

hate wasps!
good morning everyone

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe', and thanks for the coffee. I wonder if Maggie drank some of it. She is truly wired this morning.

 

[bruceha2000]

She's just super happy you brought her home!

Most of Vestal has higher priced houses for this area.

Maybe now more than then?

Did you guys know Costco closed up their in store photo area? It’s all mail service only now.

That is a bummer. A couple of years ago I took some 8mm film in for my FIL to be put on DVD.

black electrical tape

Maybe Gorilla tape instead? Electrical tape doesn't stick well except to itself and getting wet doesn't improve that.

 

[DobieLover]

Maybe Gorilla tape instead? Electrical tape doesn't stick well except to itself and getting wet doesn't improve that.

Does it come in dark brown? It'll be on the bottom of the railing so shouldn't get wet.

 

[bruceha2000]

Don't know but black electrical tape isn't brown either
It does come in many colors, I got some orange to wrap around the EV station charger cable so it is highly visible when laid out on the ground going to a car. Don't want to be tripping over that.

 

[Sally PB]

Did you guys know Costco closed up their in store photo area? It’s all mail service only now. Not the same thing, but still a drag.

I wonder who they use to do their printing now?

The lab I worked at did about 98% of their stuff from their website. I doubt they got the Walmart contract...

When I started there, the lab was all commercial work. VERY high quality, lots of VERY high end stuff. Like a big display for GM that was all second surface mounting on 4x8', 1"thick glass sheets. (Second surface means mounted on the bottom of the surface, not the top. A lot harder to do well.) No one in the state would even bid on the job, but we took it on and did a fantastic job.

 

[DobieLover]

Don't know but black electrical tape isn't brown either

I know that! I was just hoping I'd have a closer color match to the rails, wise arse.

 

[aart]

I know that! I was just hoping I'd have a closer color match to the rails, wise arse.

Why not just caulk/fill the holes?

 

[DobieLover]

Why not just caulk/fill the holes?

They're 3/4" diameter.