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Marie-Rose
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Packing up to leave
It is with a VERY heavy heart that I am posting. I can't believe I have been here almost 4 months. I am not feeling that it is time to leave but ...
gotta go and make some money so we can come back!!!
I recall a post (I believe last year), could not find it when I searched, that discussed some of the things nomads do when closing their casa's.
There were some ideas of how to reduce the risk of rodents, bugs etc. If I remember correctly, someone suggested veg. oil in the toilets to reduce
evaporation????
Remember, when in Mexico, yes may be no and no may be
maybe!
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bajajudy
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Another season has passed and we have not hooked up.
Lets make sure to remedy that situation next year!
Have a safe trip home
And see you next year....I mean it
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Paulina
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Marie-Rose,
One thing we do when we leave our place in Bahia is leave full buckets of water out. It helps to prevent the heat from sucking the moisture out of
our woodwork. We use 3 5 gal. buckets for one trailer. They are usually totally dried up by the time we return at roughly 3 mo. intervals. I also
stuff foil into the drain in the bathroom sink, over the drain in the shower and in the kitchen sick to help block the bugs from moving in. We spray
the door locks with W-D 40 and wrap the door knobs in foil.
When we leave our house in Ens. as well as turning off the water pump, we make sure the the water is turned off behind the toilets as well as under
the bathroom and kitchen sinks.
P<*)))><
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Marie-Rose
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Bajajudy
I would love to get acquainted... it seems that these 4 months have been a whirlwind! Still have a 2 day trip to the east cape to look forward to and
then pick up the esposo at the airport. He still has a couple more playing engagements before we head home on the 25th.
Paulina
Thank you. That's exactly what I was looking for. Why the foil on the door knobs?
Remember, when in Mexico, yes may be no and no may be
maybe!
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elizabeth
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You don't want to put oil in your toilets, or anywhere that will let it get to your septic system (assuming you have one). There is very little that
will destroy your leach fields better than oil.
If evaporation from toilets is significant, why not wrap the bowl in plastic wrap? Just remember you did that when you return!
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Iflyfish
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Avia Bien amigo.
Iflyfish
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DENNIS
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I think Dern and Paulina wrap their doorknobs after lubricating them so they won't dry out.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Paulina
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I think Dern and Paulina wrap their doorknobs after lubricating them so they won't dry out.
Correct me if I'm wrong. |
Si, and it helps to fight corrosion. We wrap outdoor water spigots too.
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Cameron
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Packing Up...
Depending on your windows and doors, it may be a good idea to place a rolled-up towel along your window sills and at the base of your doors before you
leave for the summer.
With most of the more "modern" windows this isn't usually a problem, but if you've got the handmade metal-framed windows/doors most common in BCS,
there's usually a small gap somewhere which will allow water to enter the house. Even with newer, custom made windows, the wind and air pressure
differential during a big storm will cause at least a little leaking.
With "normal" rainfall, you migh never have a problem, but if/when a Hurricane rolls in and the wind is blowing rain sideways at 80mph+, it will
usually cause some pretty substantial leakage. I've lived in two different homes in T.S. myself, and I had to clean up after Juliette (Bad!), then the
Marti/Nora/Olaf trifecta a couple of years later. In both cases, a couple of cheap towels strategically placed would have saved me hours of scrubbing
the mold & mud away.
Suerte!.. Cameron
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Marie-Rose
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Fabulous,,, keep it coming!
So one of our bathrooms is an outdoors bath. In the summer it gets mucho sol... I believe that is why the inside of the toilet bowl is impossible to
clean...dried out. I thought for sure I read that someone suggested veg. oil??? Wish I could find the thread.
Remember, when in Mexico, yes may be no and no may be
maybe!
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bajabound2005
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Someone did suggest veg oil; but yes, it's not good for the septic. You need something to prevent the evaporation that then allows that horrid septic
gas back into the house. Creates quite a stink! We did this in our friends' house last summer and it worked. But there must be something better
that won't harm the septic or leach field.
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vandenberg
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Somewhere the use of mineral oil sticks in my mind :? on't need much, just enough to make a film that keeps the air from getting to the
water.
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shari
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I never leave any water open anywhere because mice try to drink it and fall into buckets and REALLY stink. maybe leave some mice pellets out too. Hope
you swing by our way next visit! so sorry you have to leave...been there, done that...didn't like it! Kiss a maple for me!
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DENNIS
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That earlier thought of Saran Wrap makes a lot of sense but you should wrap the water closet as well. Septic systems are designed to vent back through
the house plumbing vents but, the system has to be full....traps et.al..
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Martyman
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Since we're saran wrapping the toilets let's short sheet the beds while we're at it.
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Paulina
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Shari,
We've never had a mouse problem down south. (knock on wood) Up here in the states, being next to a forest we have had a few of those buggers show up.
We don't use pellets because they will run away and die in some mysterious hide out and stink up the place. We use the sticky traps. They can't get
too far, unless it's a big rat, then they take the traps with them. I picture them trying to walk away with sticky snow shoes on their feet. They
can't hide with the sticky traps.
We had a neighbor in Morro Bay who had chickens, the rats would visit their back yard for the chicken feed, find the rat pellets, then come over to
our garage to die. We had to use the dog to sniff out the dead rats. We weren't the only ones with dead rats, so the neighbors got rid of their
chickens.
I have a friend who had a rattlesnake that lived under his bathroom sink. It would come out at night time. They used a giant sticky trap made just for
snakes to get him.
I guess one could put the sticky traps out next to the 5 gal. buckets of water if they had troubles with crawly things.
P <*)))><
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Halboo
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We leave buckets of water out for the dogs on my cousin's ranchito and to keep the mice etc. from drowning we just leave a sturdy stick in the the
bucket that's taller then the bucket's rim.
Simple. 
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Marie-Rose
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Paulina... re: the pails of water in the trailer. I was led to believe that excess humidity was a problem here in TS??? Is it alot drier in Bahia?
Remember, when in Mexico, yes may be no and no may be
maybe!
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DENNIS
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Just take a rag, an old T-shirt, and stuff it into the toilet.
Jeezo.... I hope this is the biggest problem you have.
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bajabound2005
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pretty much, D,that's the problem..BUT NOT IN OUR HOUSE! Because we are here all the time and can actually flush ours on ocassion!
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