You do realize this house was built in 1864, right? The hole behind the cupboard we only found because I was poking around back there for no good reason. :) The other holes are where the old plaster has fallen away near hidden junctions, like the back of the doorjamb in the pantry. This is pretty normal.
I can plug the smaller holes with some expanding insulation foam, and I have an idea on how to close the large hole without needing to pull the cupboards out, but the cracks around the molding are simply everywhere. Old settling floors aren't exactly level or even. I've *done* the caulk-everything-in-sight before, on a 400sq ft apt in Durham, and it took most of a weekend (not to mention about 8 tubes of caulk)... I can't imagine how long this place would take to do right.
Like ginkgo said, the one good thing about this is that we're 99.99% sure that this place has no mice or rats - they could get in any time they wished, but we've had no sign of them. Heck, the fact that we only have the rare spider or bug is amazing, IMO. The carpet beetles so far in the last 14 months have numbered fewer than a dozen, and a few larva, all near the recently discovered wall holes.
Of course, if we *did* have mice or (small) rats, Bob would be a lot more entertained... :)
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Date: 2007-04-23 04:21 am (UTC)I can plug the smaller holes with some expanding insulation foam, and I have an idea on how to close the large hole without needing to pull the cupboards out, but the cracks around the molding are simply everywhere. Old settling floors aren't exactly level or even. I've *done* the caulk-everything-in-sight before, on a 400sq ft apt in Durham, and it took most of a weekend (not to mention about 8 tubes of caulk)... I can't imagine how long this place would take to do right.
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Of course, if we *did* have mice or (small) rats, Bob would be a lot more entertained... :)