Not only ants but depending on your climate there can be a whole host of insects that help turn stuff into compost. They are fine in the compost but not necessarily in the house. That said, you can try it and move it if you have troubles with bugs. It should not touch the house but a couple feet away should be OK. I don't know how you're using your existing bins, but a multi bin system is best if you can turn each batch into the next bin, always put new stuff in the same bin, and get finished compost out of the last one in the row. If you do that turning it will also get done faster. If there is any way to shoehorn the 3d one next to the others you could use them together that way and maybe increase your throughput.

Felicia sounds it doesnÂt take up alot of width...is that correct? That would be fine. I donÂt have to have a climber on both sides of the porch. I can have Cornelia on one side and if Felicia doesnÂt want to Âclimb on the other that would be fine, unless it is going to grow really wide and bushy. That might be a problem. It could just stand up in front of the corner of the porch and be okay. I may plant a vine to one side of it to climb up the corner of the porch and fill in a bit of the space visually. New Dawn being a house eater is perfectly fine. I think. LOL! It will be against the back of a garage that is 25' wide and has nothing yet planted there. I would like to espalier it against the wall if that is possible. I do really like the look of an espaliered rose more than a huge bushy one that is completely eating a structure. ThatÂs just my personal preference. Is it possibly to control that effect with a rose that tends to get bushy by limiting the number of canes and training accordingly? Or is that just going to stunt its growth? 2-3' feet from the house sounds like alot, but I would guess it really isnÂt once the rose has grown after a couple of years. IÂll take this advise seriously and plant accordingly. I do want to be able to pull them away for any maintenance. My husband is very concerned about that, so he will be thrilled if I plant them farther from the house rather than closer. I plant to use something like eyebolts? to attach the roses to the house. I will certainly try to give them enough slack to breathe and move a bit. All of this is somewhat difficult as I am a very visual person. It would be great if I could stand in someone elseÂs yard and see an established rose growing exactly like I want to grow mine and plant accordingly. Since that is not likely to happen right now, I will just do as best I can with guessing. I have done a ton of research but nothing is as good as actually being there. You just really canÂt tell from pictures and I am sure that they are usually taken to show everything at its best and not the real mechanics of planting. Also, one side of the front of my house gets quite a bit more shade than the other. I am planting Celine Forestier, Gruss an aachen & Cornelia on that side because it sounds like they can do well in partial shade. I know they wonÂt do as well as they would in the sun, but they should do okay? Barring any success with some of these roses, I can always move them to another location. Correct? I am trying to make the most informed decisions possible, but I know that there are bound to be mistakes along the way and that is just part of gardening. Better to have planted and lost than to have never planted at all....which is what I have been doing for years, so I am ready to really dig in and try. Thanks so much!!! Angela

When we removed our carpet, the concrete below had been painted before carpet went down. My hubby used a Bern Z matic torch to heat up glue, then scraped it off with metal putty knife. We have swirls of bare concrete where the glue was. Will paint eventually and hope for the best. I think he also tried a metal wire brush on a drill. All I can say is good luck. Maybe wait for cooler weather. :)

Hard to tell about filling the space without a view from a bit farther back. but that may not fix your problem. The first thing to do, before worrying about filling and sealing, is to address the grading (make the ground slope so that water runs away from the house) and to ensure that the downspouts are clear, working correctly, and dumping their water well away from the house where it will then drain away from the house. Chances are with proper grading and drainage there will be no water to seep into your basement, at least from above.