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Mold Control: Home Inspection Checklist
Guidelines for inspecting your home for sources of moisture and steps for control.
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Care and maintenance of wood shingle and shake roofs
Maintenance is essential for the performance of wood roofs. Roofs need to be regularly cleaned of all leaf litter, conifer needles, and debris to limit the growth of organisms such as mosses and lichens. Cleaning solutions, surface treatments, fungal and moss control materials are also discussed.
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Surf Your Watershed
Surf Your Watershed (SYW) has provided simple access to a rich collection of watershed information since its release more than 20 years ago. SYW has recently been decommissioned because of technology migration and related security issues.
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Mosquito Control Using Outdoor Automated Misting Systems
With the recent announcements that West Nile Virus has been discovered in Oregon, there has been discussion concerning ways to control mosquitoes. One such system that has been developed is to use...
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Household Arthropods
Guidelines & Principles; Groups of pests: Public health pests, Nuisance, Household, Structural pests
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Furniture Carpet Beetle
This beetle is one of the most common pests of dry organic materials found in homes and warehouses.Online Resource
Healthy Home Partnership
This website provides resources to help identify and respond to hidden household hazards that can impact your health. Home health hazards include asthma triggers such as mold, lead-based paint, radon, pests, injury dangers and poor indoor air quality. Anyone can suffer from housing-related illnesses and injury; however certain groups such as children, the elderly, low-income or individuals with chronic illness are more at risk.
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Stamp Out Mold in Your Home
One page flyer with helpful hints for stamping out mold in your home.
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Living with termites in Bend!
I am trying to assess whether my exterminator is giving me accurate information about termite activity in Central Oregon. I am a new home owner of a house built in 1936. Termite activity was discovered during inspection and the exterminator sprayed. 2 months later we found a live termite colony in a...