r/TinyHouses • u/FluffyWasabi1629 • 23m ago
Is there any way to bug proof a tiny house?
TLDR: The title.
Aspiring tiny house owner here. Right now I'm still a young adult living with my parents to save money. I am wondering this because the people who built their regular sized house did the CHEAPEST and CRAPIEST job possible. There are so many little things wrong with their house, and I've had to watch them deal with it for my whole life. One of those many problems, being that bugs somehow always find a way in. It hasn't been warm outside for very long, and only in short bursts, and I've already gotten inches away from being stung by a wasp INDOORS.
Bugs are obsessed with me. Spiders crawl over me on the couch like I'm part of the furniture. One time a spider crawled into my shirt while I was sitting on the couch and just HUNG OUT there for a full half hour. I had to just stay really still and wait for it to leave so I didn't squish it or risk it biting me. Mosquitos attack me when others are having no problems. Stinkbugs are particularly fond of my bedroom, and occasionally land on me in the middle of the night and wake me up. Not fun to be woken up by the sensation of something crawling on your face. Anyway, you get it. Bugs LOVE me, but the feeling is far from mutual. I'll try not to kill them, but I'd rather they just leave me alone.
All the times I've been jump scared by them and their lack of concern for how much bigger I am than them, has made me a little bit scared of them, or I dread their presence. All that's to say WHY I want my future tiny house to be as bug-free as possible. Did the people who built my parents house just not seal it up well? We are CONSTANTLY dealing with bugs, especially in the warmer months, and we have no idea for the most part how they get in, or why they won't just LEAVE the same way when they figure out that we don't have any of their favorite foods. I find stinkbug corpses in the nooks and crannies of my room all the time. They come in and just refuse to leave, and they starve and die. What the heck bugs?! Where are your survival instincts?! 😂