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My War with BOOKLICE Dear all, Now then I see this topic hence decided to revive this topic. I also encountered the problem with booklice last year Dec when my house has completed renovation completely. Initially I even thought they were termites eating into my parquet flooring.. !! I searched all websites, renotalk, sgbrides, etc etc and found very few people take notice of these insects till I see this thread now.. Extreme measures I took include buying a Novita dehumidifier, using masking tape everyday and everynight till I was exhausted, washing floor with dettol, opening windows day and night, blowing many fans in the house when I am out at work, etc etc. IMO, dun find the dehumidifier useful because it actually made my parquet flooring "dry up".. like going to crack soon and there was no significant decrease in the quantity of booklice. hence no no no... Instead I find the fan very useful! After I started switching on the fans before I leave my house, all the booklice started to decrease. I guess it worked and now it has been near 6 months, the booklice problem has sort of disappeared. I do not open my windows daily because I am afraid of small insects like moths, spiders, etc but so far still do not see any booklice. The main reason why there was booklice was cos of my wallpaper paste I think. They started crawling from under the wallpaper hence do try not to install wallpaper during wet weathers like in Nov/Dec... This will help to ensure your wallpaper dries up better. I did seek some consultation from a pestbuster but did not resort to fumigation or pesticide. He told me booklice will not bite and will not cause any harm to human beings, just that it is an irritating pest hence we just have to persist in killing them to eradicate the whole population of booklice eventually

I did very extensive reno works for my new house, under an ID from Edgeline Planners. Sigh. Very disappointing and i think we will not hire them back in future anymore. During reno, following up of items was slow or never done and often the workmanship was so disappointing as compared to others who hired cheaper IDs... Now that the house has completed and still "under warranty period", trying to contact the ID to fix some items is also difficult and we have to chase him like many many times over sms, over hp calls before he arranges to get a contractor down. Design is nice but workmanship and working with them got many problems.... be it the tiling, the carpentry, the plumbing, etc etc etc, all had so many problems. Only have praises for the electrician who was responsible and much much more responsive than my ID. Tried to feedback or "complain" to the lady boss Angie but turned out she wasn't any better. Sigh... Sometimes during reno, I really felt like going down to their nice showroom entrance and pour red paint over it. Afterall I really spent a huge sum at Edgeline Planners. Much more than 50K... Anyway I know who Irene is, think she looks nice to get along with, good luck!