Fixed the third-floor break room drip and sealed a cereal box, and the ants packed up like we’d sprayed the whole wing — without putting anything in the air. Anyone else get side-eye when the hero tool is a wrench and a caulk gun instead of a tank mix?
Same — if ‘sealed a cereal box’ clears a trail, I drop a glue board by the third-floor sink overnight as the receipt and call it IPM. You getting side-eye from @Facilities, or just the folks who miss the smell of tank mix?
But quick trick: after you wrench-and-caulk, put a dab of 10% sugar water on an index card under the sink for 10 minutes; if you still get hits, the trail’s likely riding the pipe chase, so I pop the escutcheon and foam the annulus, then wipe the kick plates. Small caveat: vending machine drip trays and HVAC condensate keep refueling ants even when the break room’s tight, @d_walsh34 — you peeked those yet? The mop’s the new B&G, but I still drop one glue board overnight just to timestamp the collapse.
Yep, ‘wrench and a caulk gun’ plus a hot dish-soap mop on the pheromone trail, then a tiny puff of boric behind the escutcheon, and the third-floor scouts cancel themselves in under an hour. I do swap any cereal into snap-lids so Facilities stops side-eyeing, but I still leave a single protein-gel dot under the sink for 24 hours–curious if you’ve seen rebounds without that, @d_walsh34.
t the vending machine drip pan and the fridge condensate tray too — those sugar-slick pans are a buffet even after the leaks are sealed, and I’ll sleeve the cold supply with foam so it quits sweating and fueling microtrails. @BuildingOps told me, “your caulk gun is showing,” when I did that; you getting pushback, or can we log it as plumbing IPM in the ticket?