gofar99 Messages: 1949 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
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Hi Everyone, I actually don't hate termites, I really hate termites. When I was taking down the exterior Christmas lights, I happened to push on the main support post for my garage. Big surprise, the paint pushed in. Armed with a screw driver, I started to scrape the post ( a 6X8 thing ) and the more I scraped, the more of it crumbled away. It was chomped down to about a 2X2 at ground level. Paint intact, wood just dust. I had visions of a new type of compact car. My Subaru Forester about 2 foot thick So I put all my electronic projects on hold and checked around on getting the post fixed. You really don't want to know how outrageous the bids were. So off to the equipment rent place to get some roof jacks. Then remove the post (heavy blasted thing). Off to the lumber yard (hoping all the time that the roof was still standing) Get a new post, clean out all the nearby damage which was fortunately minimal. The buggers just liked the wood the post was made of and left everything alone. Still I had to tear out two wall panels and a few nearby 2X4s. All fixed now and I have some of the nastiest termite killer stuff they had in town. Payback is a B--ch. Take that you buggers.
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) and the more I scraped, the more of it crumbled away. It was chomped down to about a 2X2 at ground level. Paint intact, wood just dust. I had visions of a new type of compact car. My Subaru Forester about 2 foot thick 
So I put all my electronic projects on hold and checked around on getting the post fixed. You really don't want to know how outrageous the bids were. So off to the equipment rent place to get some roof jacks. Then remove the post (heavy blasted thing). Off to the lumber yard (hoping all the time that the roof was still standing) Get a new post, clean out all the nearby damage which was fortunately minimal. The buggers just liked the wood the post was made of and left everything alone. Still I had to tear out two wall panels and a few nearby 2X4s. All fixed now and I have some of the nastiest termite killer stuff they had in town. Payback is a B--ch. Take that you buggers. 
