lws@hou2d.UUCP (L.SAMOCHA) (08/22/85)
Now that THAT is settled, what about those damed silverfish? These little 'buggers' seem to eat nothing, live only in my upstairs bathroom- and (?) dislike air conditioning. Any answers??? LWS
charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) (08/23/85)
In article <645@hou2d.UUCP> lws@hou2d.UUCP (L.SAMOCHA) writes: >Now that THAT is settled, what about those damed silverfish? >These little 'buggers' seem to eat nothing, live only in >my upstairs bathroom- and (?) dislike air conditioning. > >Any answers??? > Mothballs. Silverfish hate mothballs. Since silverfish eat strange things (the backing on carpets and glue in book-bindings), you may have to put the mothballs in some strange places. (When we had silverfish, I put mothballs in the bookshelves behind the books, and in cabinets.) Just make sure pets and children can't get to the mothballs, as they're poisonous. charli
bill@persci.UUCP (08/26/85)
In article <216@cylixd.UUCP> charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) writes: >In article <645@hou2d.UUCP> lws@hou2d.UUCP (L.SAMOCHA) writes: >>Now that THAT is settled, what about those damed silverfish? >Mothballs. Silverfish hate mothballs. Since silverfish eat strange >things (the backing on carpets and glue in book-bindings), you may >have to put the mothballs in some strange places. Careful about those books! My first house (400-500 sq ft) was far too small to have shelves for all my books (about 800 paperbacks, and who knows how many hardbound..), so I had to store them on a platform underneath (the house was perched on a hillside, to boot). This platform was sheltered and cool, so I packed the books in large plastic bags (to help keep dampness out) with mothballs (to keep bugs out), put them in boxes, and stored them until such a time as we could afford a larger house. A year and a half later we sold the house and moved. I unpacked my valued book collection to find that most of the glues had turned hard. I can still read most of the books if I handle them *VERY* carefully. Otherwise, pages start falling out. Some of these books I have had for many years with no significant deterioration, others were almost new. All are nearly ruined. -- William Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill