Friday, September 11, 2009

So this is how it's gonna be huh?

After I got home from Kombo my house was moldy from being closed up all week and raining. While preparing to bleach the heck out of my roof and walls I tapped the wall with my knuckle and put a hole in the wall.
Uh oh. This is not good.

Inside the small hole is a termite nest. The termites came pouring out, and I ran out to find reinforcements.
Jamboye came in and looked at my wall. “I will go get mud to make mortar and we will fill the hole.” Ok. Thanks, but we have to get them out first.
Jamboye came back with a small mound of dirt and crushed shells to make the mud cement. Then he started to excavate the wall to remove the termites.
He just kept removing and I watched in horror as more and more of my wall became dirt on my floor, filled with thousands of termites and their nest!
We filled three buckets with wall and termite.
Jamboye decided the nest was cleared out enough (we didn’t find the queen though) and moved on to the other spot on my wall that I had removed a termite brain from in the morning.
He cleared out another 3 foot section of wall, termites and nest.
The mud from earlier was clearly not enough to fix these holes, and until it got too dark to see Jamboye worked to fill in my wall with bricks and mud cement.
He finished the next morning, and left my house a muddy mess!
We haven’t done anything about the termites since then. I’m pretty sure they are in most parts of my back wall and the roof, but until rainy season is over we can’t do much work on the house.

Also, after every rain the mold grows so thick in some places it looks like snow- until it turns black.
My fences in the backyard blew over while I was gone, and have been destroyed by termites.
The roof leaks when it rains really hard. Good thing rainy season is pretty much over.
It’s been a month… that’s for sure!

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