u/BurritoNipples

Image 1 — Why does this carpenter ant look like this? I'm dealing with an infestation in the house or around the house
Image 2 — Why does this carpenter ant look like this? I'm dealing with an infestation in the house or around the house
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Why does this carpenter ant look like this? I'm dealing with an infestation in the house or around the house

u/BurritoNipples — 14 hours ago

Why is this carpenter ant a different color.

I've done some treatments around my house and inside my house. And I noticed that this carpenter ant is white and black check out the picture. Does that mean that the treatments are working I've never seen this before.

u/BurritoNipples — 14 hours ago

NY subterranean termites

Previous owners had subterranean termites and it seemed like the termites were coming from the basement slab.

I don't think they were aware how bad it really was though.

When I bought the house and I ripped up the carpet termites were coming up from old drill holes from the 80s/90s. I had a professional come and he sprayed and then did termidor foam in the wall cavity and then down the old drill holes.

I did a chemical barrier treatment around the house should that take care of termites coming back from under the slab?

It's been 10 months and I haven't seen any activity since.

I have yet to demo the rest of the basement but I keep coming across newer older damage that both myself, the inspector and the termite inspector missed. Basement is finished.

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u/BurritoNipples — 23 hours ago
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I have 3 thermostats for ecobee. 2 heat 1 air conditioner. Heater zones have sensors. Can I map them to air-conditioning?

Yeah I don't want to buy new sensors to put in the same rooms. How can I map them to ecobee thermostat specifically for air conditioning. Thanks.

If not is there a workaround?

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u/BurritoNipples — 2 days ago

I'm finding this in my walls and it's the ducts. Is this normal or is there a leak?

Picture taken on the second floor. Air handler is in the attic. They go to a duct on the first floor from my attic that's pretty weak. Mind you I don't know my handler and I don't know where the dampers are. I am still learning how to manage the air handler. But I was using my thermal gun and noticed my walls are ice cold.

I checked my attic where they connect too and my flex connect to a metal pipe down.

u/BurritoNipples — 2 days ago

My air conditioning has been running for almost 3 hours humidity hasn't really dropped. Central air

It's around 85 to 90° today, and about 60% humidity outside.

When I ran the central air the indoor temperature was around 78°, it's been about 3 hours and now it's about 72 to 73° in the entire house.

The humidity in the house when I started was around 58% and it's either stayed the same in some rooms or dropped only about 2 to 3%.

This is a 2600 ft² colonial home and have a 3 ton unit, the air handler is in the attic. The attic right now is about 120°.

All windows are completely shut. I'm not sure if this is normal, I'm a new homeowner and I didn't run the air conditioner last year.

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u/BurritoNipples — 2 days ago

https://imgur.com/a/o9dZOcZ

The dark spots feel almost like glue it's very rough and the non dark spots feel like a normal laver. The stuff that looks like a foot print there's definitely some height to them and I'm almost convinced this is concrete or mortar. I tried taking a hose to it but it's still semi visible.

These pavers were installed in December and the team never cleaned anything off outside using a house.

I've already had several callbacks with the company. I sent these pictures over to the company and I asked them what can we do to stop doing these callbacks and just finalize this once and for all there's too many issues.

I haven't gone a response back but I just wanted to check with Reddit who someone maybe knows what these actually are. Not sure if I trust the installer anymore.

If I look back at some of the original installation pictures I see these dark spots and foot prints but I thought it was dirt and it would wash off.

u/BurritoNipples — 22 days ago