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Ken Compton from Southern Home Inspection Services sent me interesting information on Wood Rot.
Question: How can I prevent wood rot on my window sills and trim?
Answer:
1. Keep the bushes and trees trimmed back from the house at least 18 inches.
2. The window sills need to be caulked and painted (check on the condition annually).
3. Remove the window screens from all the windows that you don't use for ventilation. The reason is that the metal bottom section acts like a dam and water ponds on the window sills. As the paint on the window sills deteriorates, water seeps into the sill and begins to rot.
The interesting thing is that wood rot occurs more quickly on NEWER homes than older homes. The wood on older homes is truely stronger and more resistent to rot!
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Last week, I got a new bird. He's a yellow-naped Amazon called Sushi. He's pretty shy. This morning, he was making crying sounds like a 3 month old baby. He was so loud, he woke up my son who said "what is that noise"?He was really loud! This bird is normally a guy bird (meaning he doesn't like women much). I opened the cage and he came right out on my hand and stopped his "crying". Sushi was very happy just wandering around.
Later, at lunch time, I was having chicken. I gave him a chicken bone (because he LOVES eating the marrow). Sushi was happily munching on his chicken bone in his cage with the door open. Meanwhile, my Scarlet Macaw named Jaime was just wandering about on top of his cage in the next room (about 40 feet away).
The next thing I knew, there was Jaime! He was sitting on top of the door of Sushi's cage and he had Sushi's bone in his mouth. I was sitting right there and I didn't see him fly over, go into the cage and take the bone right out of Sushi's mouth! Jaime had no idea what to do with the bone but he knew he should have it! I gave the bone back to Sushi and Jaime then tried to steal it back again. Luckily, I had a second bone. I separated them (shut Sushi's door) and put Jaime on a perch after that.
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