Podcast 274: PRO TALK With Entomologist Rachel Arango
This edition of Pro-Talk podcast features Dr. Rachel Arango Research Entomologist with the US Forest Service
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The Fine Homebuilding podcast is recording a second weekly podcast focusing on the issues facing contractors and professional tradespeople. This week Patrick talks with Dr. Rachel Arango Research Entomologist with the US Forest Service about insect pests and the efficacy of various pressure treatment formulations.
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Would actually like to hear more from the good Doctor. You might ask her for suggestions of who to interview from the lab for other specialties, too.
Had a house in temperate rainforest - the Inside Passage of Alaska's Panhandle. Turned out one wall was only held up by the stucco - the studs were just wet black compost in the bottom of the wall, from the carpenter ants. Ordinarily, home insurance doesn't pay for insect damage, at least there. There was a court decision - maybe the Alaska Supreme Court - that said the Insurance Company had to pay if "the house was in eminent danger of collapse". It was, and they did pay. We did do as the doctor suggested - eliminated the water issues. Some of the latter was at our expense.
Ask me why anyone was stupid enough to use stucco and no overhang to the eaves in a place with 162 inches of rain and driving wind. We were stupid enough to buy it. We were a lot younger, then, and didn't come from "stucco country".