How To Install Cedar Siding On A House

Cedar siding installation tips and information including flashing, caulking, roof and ground clearance and fasteners. Hi folks, Am thinking about getting the WM shingle attachment. I know cedar is more beneficial as a shingle but if I am just doing some siding that will. How To Install Cedar Siding On A House' title='How To Install Cedar Siding On A House' />Cedar Siding Maintenance, Restoration, Cleaning Staining Cedar Refinishing. Carpenter bees, also known as wood boring bees, are mostly known by their ability to literally drill through wood surfaces. In fact, the holes they drill are almost always a perfect circle measuring from 38 to a half an inch in diameter. You may notice coarse sawdust that is present beneath the entry hole, and you may even be able to hear burrowing sounds from within the wood. There are nearly 7. These amazing wood boring bees resemble bumble bees, except that the upper surface of their abdomen is bare and shiny black the abdomen of the bumble bee is hairy and has at least a few yellow markings. The adult carpenter bee is one half to one inch in length, making it larger than a bumble bee. Male carpenter bees are recognized for having a yellow face and interestingly they lack stingers, while female carpenter bees have black faces and are able to sting. Male carpenter bees will often spend hours a day guarding their territory and nests against other males. Besides that and mating, this appears to be their primary roles. It is the female carpenter bee that is the culprit of the holes you are seeing in your log or cedar home. After mating, she bores the holes for the sole purpose of egg laying. The hole the female carpenter bee bores leads to a tunnel that is usually about inch in length. She then makes a 9. Though she prefers bare and unpainted wood, weve seen them bore through painted, stained, pressure treated, and pesticide treated wood. As unbelievable as it sounds, weve even seen them bore through chinking to get to wood. Carpenter bees are open faced flower pollinators, and the female bee uses the pollen she gathers to make her nests. Carpenter bees do not ingest wood, instead they use the chewed wood bits to make partitions between the cells in their nests. Each tunnel can hold up to eight or nine larvae. Outside of the obvious damage done by the holes bored by carpenter bees, which can weaken your homes structure over time, the exposed holes allow moisture and other wood boring insects and woodpeckers, to begin wreaking havoc on your home. In fact, woodpeckers will peck even larger holes into the log or siding of your home in order to eat carpenter bees and their larvae. It is the woodpecker damage that is the most detrimental effect of carpenter bees. Pesticides can be used as a deterrent since carpenter bees appear to be sensitive to certain odors and tastes. However,  the bees do not ingest wood, any pesticides that are applied to the outer wood surface are not ingested by the carpenter bees and therefore are not effective. Plus, all it takes is one light rain to wash the pesticide away. Some may recommend particular additives to stains and paints as a carpenter bee deterrent. However, in our sixteen years of experience in the log and cedar home business, weve rarely seen an additive serve as an effective way to get rid of carpenter bees. Our recommended process for preventing further carpenter bees from boring into your log or cedar home includes first treating the existing carpenter bee holes with a powder that will kill the bees that are either coming to or leaving the holes. We will leave the holes unsealed so that any carpenter bees that enter the holes within the next couple weeks will be exterminated. We then recommend that the existing holes are sealed with a wood caulking product. All Dota Ai Map Latest Version on this page. Keep in mind that if the hole is filled prematurely, the carpenter bees will simply seek out other locations on your home to bore holes. We then recommend you allow us to install our bee traps around the perimeter of your home. In our years of experience with carpenter bees, we know there is only one sure way to eliminate the carpenter bee population outside of your home and that involves an ongoing method for eliminating them. Weve designed traps that will be installed around the perimeter of your log or cedar home just behind the fascia boards. We place our traps there so that they are out of site andarent exposed to weather conditions. Furthermore, weve learned that fascia boards tend to be the place carpenter bees prefer to bore their holes in since these areas are protected from the rain. Our traps will allow bees to pick up the powder as they come and go. The powder is then carried by the carpenter bees to other bee holes and from bee to bee, and therefore serves as an effective way to eliminate your carpenter bee population. Though toxic to the bees, the powder is environmentally safe and is pet and people friendly. We have over sixteen years of experience in maintaining and restoring log and cedar homes, and during that time have had quite a bit of experience dealing with our customers concerns with carpenter bees. We realize how much of a nuisance they can be, and we also know that it is concerning to see the damage they are doing to your log or cedar home. We want to help you. Feel free to call us for more information or for a free estimate. We look forward to hearing from you. In addition to being a nuisance, carpenter wood boring bees have the ability to do significant damage to your log or cedar home. The only sure way to stop carpenter bees from drilling holes in your home is to kill them. Weve designed a trap that is installed around the perimeter of your log or cedar home, behind the fascia, and out of site. Once our traps are installed, they are charged with a powder. Carpenter bees will enter the pre drilled holes, carry the powder to other pre drilled holes and to their nests. In time, your local carpenter bee population will be eliminated. We specialize in eliminating carpenter bees wood boring beesfor log and cedar home owners. We can help you get rid of your carpenter bees. The carpenter bee trap should be placed under the soffit behind the fascia on the gabble end of the house. They will be primed with a dust so as the bees come and go they will be eliminated. We also have carpenter bee traps that actually trap the bee in the hole and the bee dies. Specializing in carpenter bee control in the state of Virginia. 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