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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> 
>>> I drilled holes at the top 
>> of the wall in the stud cavities and filled it full of styrofoam packing 
>> peanuts 
> 
> Most packing peanuts aren't styrofoam.  They are expanded cellulose or 
> starch.  They will decay if exposed to moisture and hungry rodents in a 
> pinch will 
> return to dine on them.
> 
I tested all these before I used them...I found out the hard way that 
the starch kind dissolve as soon as water hits them.

Lynn Wigglesworth


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