Massive Hornet Bee’s Nest in Roof Rafters

Seven years ago we purchased an old 1950’s home that was previously owned by my great uncle and auntie. After my uncle died, we purchased the home, so that my great auntie could still live in it until her death. Once she passed away, we started gutting the home and moved into it 4 1/2 years ago.

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When we first remodeled we ONLY remodeled the kitchen, the one full bathroom, built-on and added another full bathroom, 2 of the bedrooms and turned the dining room into a temporary living room. Over the past 4 years we’ve remodeled the game/family room, the laundry room and my pantry/storage room. We also added an above-ground swimming pool to the backyard along with all new landscaping.

Every summer we take on another large project aka remodeling project in the home. This year we selected the old attached sun room which is a decent size. That room hasn’t been touched in over 10 years! It had numerous roof leaks, a few cracked windows, smelled nasty and well…needed to be ripped down.

We started that process last weekend. Over the period of 4 days we tore down all of the walls, studs, paneling, removed all of the windows, ripped up the nasty pink tiled flooring and then tore off the roof. The only thing left standing was the cement slab that room was built on.

While ripping down the ceiling and the roof we came across a massive hornet bee’s nest! When I say massive…it measured 17″ in length by 8 1/2″ in width. No kidding! I’m allergic to bee stings so I took off and hid inside the house while hubby took care of the resident bees. Took him about 5 hours to kill and evict them out of there.

Before tearing down the nest aka the bee hive, I got a few photographs for you all to see. OMGeee! I’ve never seen a hornet’s nest that big! I’m glad all of the bees have now been evicted!

This coming weekend we will start rebuilding the room and will be building it from the cement slab, up! We’re putting in completely new walls, studs, ceiling, roofing, windows, flooring, lighting, EVERYTHING! Right now..it’s just a cement slab!

As we go along on this major home remodeling project, I’ll be updating all of you, so that you can see what we’re doing, how we’re doing it and how this project finally turns out!

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