House is going to be tented for termites
Jim2359
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Hello all, Not sure if this is where this question should be so if in wrong area please forgive me. I am having our house tented for termites. They envelope the whole house with tent & inject chemical in. My question is do you think my NGC slabbed gold will be OK or should I remove from safe. We are staying in hotel & prefer to leave in the safe. Thanks in advance, Jim
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One Gallon Ziploc freezer bags should work, Could also Ziploc then Ziploc again.
Agree couple ziploc bags should make them safe!
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Perfect idea. Thankyou
Of course the PVC from the Ziploc bags will add another measure of film protection on the coin surfaces.
That's actually a good question for here
Steve
Yes good question.
Never been tented but used flea bombs and those tarnish silver. I'd just seal up as recommended and maybe use tape to seal door on safe.
do the slabs have termites?
What's a job like that cost?
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No PVC in Ziplock bags - polyethylene should not be a concern.
"All of SC Johnson's line of Ziploc bags use polyethylene-linear low density (LLDPE) as the primary material both for the bag and for its zipperlike closure"
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PVC should not be a concern for very, very short term storage.
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I hope the termites didn't eat your collection of wooden nickels.
Perhaps some masking tape around the edges of the safe door as well?
My house is 2200 sq ft, plus 12X12 shed. $1500.00 average quote
Thanks all. Ziplocks are the answer, but tape wouldnt work as from what I can tell it in goes into the 2X4,s, drywall, plywood, everything from the info from terminx
Use plastic tape.
High end $10 a roll duct tape is a super thick sealant. If you remove it in a few days to a week it should peel off leaving no residue. Leave a tab to make the tape easily removable.
It's very nice of you to keep the little termites dry and warm in a big tent. Wasn't there a slogan about that some years ago?
Hope the termite exterminators get every one of the little beggars, all their eggs, and even all their easter eggs!
Hope they haven't been watching Breaking Bad either.
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Ziplocs and tape for the safe door... Worry more about silver than gold anyway....The reason for the tape on the safe door is more to keep the gases out of the safe, so when you open it after the extermination, you don't get a big whiff of chemicals...and use good duct tape, masking tape will not work. Cheers, RickO
Make sure not to use micropore tape, or really, any breathable tape.
$1500 is a pretty nice quote. I hope they do a good job.
You could always leave some coins out for AT, charge an 800% premium and list them as a Nigerian Prince's collection passed down to your great grand-cousin eight times removed.
$1,500 is very inexpensive. Does that include follow-up testing for house and shed?
You have a safe and are staying elsewhere for several days and other people know it. May be time to use the sdb for the duration.
NT = Natural toning
AT = Artificial toning
TT = Termite toning
Best of luck to you!
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I doubt he could find a safe deposit box big enough for the family to live in.
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For the coins. Yuk yuk.
This was the very first thing that crossed my mind too. Ya beat me to it
I agree the ziplock bags is the ticket.
Why not completely wrap the safe with visquene. Inexpensive then duct tape all areas of the seams on the visquene. Thereby doing it all in one sweep. I box of visquene and 1 role of duct tape. 1 edge knife would take you 1 to 2 hours. It would be like wrapping a large present.
My guts say that any coins of real value should be removed from the premises. I don't trust the chemical guys all that much.
probably a good time for a weeks vacation as well.
You could always just mail them to yourself, registered of course Then your PO will securely hold them for you in their safe until you are good to go again.
bob
You could also do this with the family and avoid hotel charges....But parcel post might be the best way....
Good idea, but be sure to document the contents. With no sales invoice, the P.O. could easily deny the claim.