Re: Getting rid of urine odor and squirrel

[Guest guest]

I had an invading squirrel once when I was in college and lived in an attic. The

darn thing was nesting in the walls. We fought a while, I chased it with a

stick, it lunged at me and tried to bite..., traps failed or were chewed up.

Nothing worked, ..until.. I left my old clock radio in the crawl space facing

down the eave tunnel where it went up into the walls. That squirrel hated

country music. Mostly though I think it didn't like any radio station played

really loud. Whenever I left, I turned it UP. When I came home, I turned it back

down to my quiet comfort level. After a just a few days the critter found a more

peaceful tree to nest in. It worked. I left a fan blowing all the time to help

get rid of the smell where I could not rinse with ammonia and hot water. After a

few weeks, it was tolerable again and I forgot about it. Poverty makes you

creative :-)

Z

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[Guest guest]

lol's, poor squirrel.

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> I had an invading squirrel once when I was in college and lived in

an attic. The darn thing was nesting in the walls. We fought a while,

I chased it with a stick, it lunged at me and tried to bite..., traps

failed or were chewed up. Nothing worked, ..until.. I left my old

clock radio in the crawl space facing down the eave tunnel where it

went up into the walls. That squirrel hated country music. Mostly

though I think it didn't like any radio station played really loud.

Whenever I left, I turned it UP. When I came home, I turned it back

down to my quiet comfort level. After a just a few days the critter

found a more peaceful tree to nest in. It worked. I left a fan

blowing all the time to help get rid of the smell where I could not

rinse with ammonia and hot water. After a few weeks, it was tolerable

again and I forgot about it. Poverty makes you creative :-)

> Z

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[Guest guest]

Well, I said blacklight and Jeff said ultraviolet. I don't know the

difference if there is one. It could be that black light is a type

of ultraviolet light.

This is what encyclopedia says about black light:

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Black light (also Wood's light) is the common name for a lamp

emitting electromagnetic radiation that is almost exclusively in the

soft near ultraviolet range, and very little visible light. In the

United Kingdom this type of lighting is more commonly referred to as

simply " UV light " .

<snip>

Read about it's uses:

" In forensic investigations, black lights are used to reveal the

presence of trace evidence, such as blood, urine, semen and saliva,

by causing visible fluorescence in these substances. The use of this

technique by exposé style television news magazines for reporting on

the various unsanitary and mysterious stains found in hotel rooms

has become such an oft-repeated stunt that it has been lampooned on

comedy shows such as Family Guy and The Office (US). "

Here are some pictures of black lights. I have tubular type and I

recommend that if you have pets as it identifies any stain made by

pet vomit or urine accidents and also other biologic stains that may

cause odor. If you don't have pet, you could get by with compact

type but it will only illuminate a very small area so may take a

long time to investigate whole attic with it. I got my tubular one

at a pet store but lately I only see the small compact ones which I

tried using but gave up and then glad to find my lost tubular one.

http://www.blacklite.com/Products/Tubular_Type_Ultraviolet_Lamps.htm

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> Oh goodness!! I would had moved outside if he tried to

> bite me! I must try the country music...heck, that

> might be enough to make me move out anyways!! The bad

> thing, that attic door is in my daughters room and I

> will need to run an extention cord! I will plug in a

> radio and lights..someone said use ultraviolet

> lights....are those the kind used for plants??

>

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[Guest guest]

J, I think Jeff was referring to black light as ultraviolet.

Article says black light is referred to in UK as ultraviolet and is

one of the spectrums of UV light, but no, a regular ultraviolet

light will not do this. However UV lights in another spectrum will

kill germs, so you have that correct. There are alot of UV light

which have different qualities and are used differently. I have a

UV light which I use on my face to knock down inflamation of

rosacea, it's called blue light and there is a UV red light also in

the machine that does something else. So all sorts of UV lights

with different capabilities.

All the pet stores around here have only the small compact one and

you almost have to get down with that one and crawl around since the

light is so faint from them. I really recommend buying one that is

as large as a regular flourescent light bulb as you can stand up and

use it at a distance, which means you will probably only be able to

find on the internet. I thought photographers used black lights but

I searched under photography supplies and could not find it when

shopping for one for myself. Photography has changed alot too.

However I found these:

This is similar to what I have but is currently out of stock it says:

<http://www.blacklight.com/items/BLACK48BLB>

Here is something similar. I don't know if blacklights get hot. I

don't think they do, but if they do, would probably need to wear

gloves to carry this around:

<http://www.blacklight.com/items/CHNVASY-F48A>

You might look at other things they have. There is this bulb for

regular light fixture. This bulb does look like it would make for a

fun party for something different, but in my house the pet stains

would glow too, so no blacklight fun for me:

<http://www.blacklight.com/items/FTBPESL13T-BLB>

etc..

>I was thinking the light

> had something to do with killing the germs the critter

> left. I once heard some sort of light was once used in

> doctors