today we're going to fill some holes for the carpenter bees these little buggers get in there we live in a Catskill Mountain range up in upstate New York and a log cabin and I don't know I have all these woods to eat but they seem to like eating our house more than anybody else so you can see where they get in there they make these little holes in the most tricky spots like here's one right there in springtime they go in there and they dig the holes and they plant larvae it doesn't go in too deep there's another one right about there they don't go too deep but they have they turn right or left really fast so they end up going in several inches in either direction this is the same hole from the other side you can see the previous owners use probably this looks to me an awful lot like it's just caulking or even plaster of Paris or something I've noticed that they actually just me dig those holes so it's pretty useless for this job I recommend you use some sort of bug killer super spray I use carpenter bee this stuff here from I don't know Specter side and I'm sure they're all good kills on contact that's that's key for the way I approach it with one of these lone like doohickeys on the hand hammer handy I have Dowling's I bought pre-drill pre-cut down lines for furniture this is like four or five bucks it that won't equal I know it's kind of expensive good buy cheaper give use a stick even so these are 3/8 dowels I bought other ones they've been pretty much useless they're too small I have some steel wool and I got one of these it's like a screwdriver thing no allen key and but it's really great because you can hold on to like this and just RAM in things okay some high quality carpenter glue I use and then finally water tin foil so there's your supplies I usually the really high end hanger on a on a you know hang this up on the ladder and of course you're going to need a ladder to get the holes you can see another one right in the center frame you know trying to man my life in my phone it's a little tight but there's one right there a total giveaway having the sawdust right below so look for those little gable it cleaned up a little higher and you can see the hole is pretty pronounced and actually extremely around it's amazing that they can do that there's all the gunk and crap they spit out now you googled it to have a look at you know what the recommendations are I'm kind of like the kind of guy who doesn't take two or three days to do something I just want to get it done so I got this kills on contact stuff it foams up really fast you can see you spray it in just plug it and that phone's got nowhere to go but in and it's just cooking them in there make sure you wear some really good quality gloves you know you want super high-end protection there look how far and it goes so sorry to ruin your day there bees I read online that it could actually come out and you know surprise you if you're not careful how I manage that is I just use this kill on contact stuff they're not coming out now okay so the next step is take some just a water stuff steel wool it just kind of make a point at the end you just kind of force it in this is where that little plunger screwdriver and linky thing works really well because it makes it great and if you use like a screwdriver a typical screwdriver you might end up not getting too far I find it this works really good for me I find that works really good for me look at that pops right in so this goes back pretty far so I'm going to do a second one and maybe with a three so this is my third wad right now it's still going in there pretty deep it's really surprising so I'm going to switch now to web wad of tinfoil you know it's Ram it in there there's lots of room there's lots of ribbon there same thing with the what this thing is Ram it in when it's when it's gets in there next thing I do is just grab one of these little Dowling's here that 3/8 down I talked about and just you know give it a good gallopping of a little word gallopping out of this carpenter glue stuff and then just mush it around you got some nice thick gloves on so who cares and then you Ram it in that damn hole yeah there it is sticking out so you get the hammer kind of hard to hold a hammer hold the phone stay on the ladder and not die but anything for my viewing audience maybe one of these times I'll actually hit the thing ok so you can see I got it in there pretty good but there's still a perimeter this particular hole that you can still see a hole around so what I'm going to do is I'm going to try and stuff in just a little bit more tin foil around the edge I don't think they're going to want to eat that anymore last step here is just to fill the remainder with a bit of carpenters glue just to seal up the hole you can put some sawdust in there too if you're much more adventurous than I am when I guess Auto standee alright so you can see now I got it jammed pretty good with carpenter glue I bought some of this wood finish retouch it's a pen you probably use a sharpie to I don't know I paid like five bucks for this I'm not sure it was worth it but it kind of matches this Mona nose red mahogany I don't know if there's a red mahogany color but it kind of matches it but right now I don't want to kind of put that on there because it's still a little goopy still a little wet so I'll wait until I'll wait until that dries a little bit and I'll just paint over it with this stuff and before you know it you got to keep lookout for them you know they pop up all over the place that's not one that's just a knot but look here's another one of those little turkey holes it started it and they abandon it but this will be a fresh start for them next year they're pretty lazy insects they don't like to do it over and over again and so that's why you do the tinfoil because if you just did a doweling well they go in there and they eat it they'd start right again so the tinfoil isn't very appetizing for these guys so they tend to stop and and hopefully you can get rid of them by have them flying in the woods and eating the trees because you know that's what they ought to be doing there's that spray like I said nothing to it on the other one dries it'll look a lot like this you know if you were probably a better homeowner than I you would you would fill this with them with tin foil and cover it same way in fact I might come back tomorrow morning and do that but you get the point sure is worth it living up here in the Catskill Mountains in July it beautiful a great place to raise our kid and enjoy the sunshine and the clouds and the weather and fight these goldarn carpenter bees so look at the specs all over the walls you can see them there and there and there and there those ones are carpenter holes that have been filled over the years this house is early 90s so you know getting 30 years old what's that a hawk or something fly by beautiful Oh two of them every spring stay diligent according to my web searches you can't actually you can't actually get structural damage from these things but I don't know seems to me like if they're digging holes that deep that eventually they're going to make a mess of it anyway this is the first of some home videos I might be making over the next while as a a city mouse who's moved to the country from New York City and up to upstate New York to try and discover what else left can be about