carpenter ants in the tiny timber house

Yup, we have ants. Or rather we had ants. Te little exoskeletonated creeps  were chewing through our windows and beam. we found small piles of saw dust and then the nest. dozens of little creatures running fastly away as I opened the trim on the window to find them. Running fast but not faster than the stay of clove oil. We killed those little pests, lovingly of course. suffocated them right out of the beams and hopefully the house is now pest free. It did mean taking the completed upstairs apart a little but one step forward one step back as "they" say.