Termites

Like most homes eventually, in Southern California, the time has come when we must be tented for termites. Does anyone know if the fumigant gas is a problem for stamps? Should I remove my stamp collection from the house in advance?

Thank you,

Having lived for a few years in SoCal and having had to tent my house as well, I'd just offer that it is some pretty nasty stuff and I'd recommend that you remove your collection before they fumigate. It may not hurt the stamps but I'd prefer to err on the side of caution.

Steve

Good grief, one more thing to worry about. (When I first saw the title of the thread, I was thinking that termites would be the threat to the stamps)

well there are insects that eat paper you know rohumpy

Termites ate the considerable collection of the Sultan of Sarawak,
which caused him to give up the hobby.
Thousands of very valuable stamps were destroyed.

With me, the worry is mice. I have had to place my albums in large bins that I can close. I have a mouse problem, but with several dogs, I hesitate to put out poison to kill them. After the experience several years ago of putting out a trap, catching one with the bar down across the little snout and those, still living, plaintive eyes staring up at me, I just can't do that again to a fellow creature on this planet.

Termites are a real issue here in the sub-tropics.

We see them as 2 four letter words joined together.

Trying to be polite! KGV

Now thar ya go.

I thpught this was a thread about stamps featuring termites!

Do you ever ask yourself "Why do we bother?"

We had termite problems. They would eat the paper backing off a photograph. They would chew through a thin layer of metal if they knew there was wood behind it. They even gnawed two of the feet off a cedar clothes chest. We battled them for years, having to replace sections of roof and ceiling a few times. They even survived a couple of treatments tenting. Eventually they had to drill holes through the foundation every two feet around the house and fill them with poison. After one more tenting we were able to keep them at bay.

smauggie. I am surprised you had so much trouble?

HRH Spock - This was a particulary combative and invasive species. At one point they had broken a hole in my bedroom ceiling and one moring I woke up in a bed full of newly hatched termite larvae which had fallen through. Suffice to say the termite combat became personal after that. Thankfully only the roof/ceiling was made of wood. The rest of the house was concrete.

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