I have a Paper wasp nest right on top of the front door.
Walking out the door, my head is ~20cm way from it.
It's been there since August, and although there's only supposed to be 12-20 wasp (www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Common-Paper-Wasp/Polistes/humilis.html)... a night time photo shows 21 wasp in the field of view, which doesn't cover the rear.
Now being the type that respects all life I really can't bring myself to kill them considering they haven't stung me.
Since I've been walking past them everyday since they founded the colony, do they will the ever consider me a threat?
Try poking them and you'll find out for sure!
Then you might have a different attitude to your house mates.
I guess you could smoke them out and then remove the nest if they become too much of an issue. Don't know if they die without a home though.Or if you just move it if they wil find it and use it again???
Most are supposed to die in winter... is that like May, June? And will they use the nest again in September?
I'll tell you what I would be doing. Whilst I have a very long and ordinary history with insects I have become a little circumspect about their right to exist. I have also noticed that most of the ordinary experiences I have had have been a direct result of interfering with them.
What I would be doing is leave them well alone until one nabs you. They do hurt but it does not last long and they must somehow have got used to you so perhaps they are there to test your mettle.
When it happens there will be a reason for it, probably because you are drunk or behaving mindlessly for some other reason. At this point you will be presented with another little test and that is to take it on the nose philosophically speaking or to continue acting mindlessly and burn the ****ers out in a fit of rage. If you do this you will probably be stung again and more than once.
Burning them out can be done very efficiently by wrapping a small quantity of toilet paper around the end of a broom handle at night, dipping it in petrol or kero, igniting it and applying it to the sleeping beauties. Their wings burn very quickly rendering them immobile.
If you take this option you will then have to live with your conscience. You may also find that this action will be the beginning of a long run of ordinary experiences with insects
2 things fly, paper wasps are stinging little buggers. Is your front door the only entrance to the house, and have you considered the consequences of a visitor getting stung. I have been bitten many times by these little black bastards and there little black and gold cousins to the point that my immunity has diminished over the years to now having to carry at least 80 mg of antihistimine in case of a bite. You will find they are from a bigger colony somewhere near and this won,t be the only nest.
Good luck with your conscience as a dead wasp is a good wasp.
Poke 'em with abroom handle and watch how they bite. They land get a good grip, squat, bite and pull them selves up with force. They put everything into it!
All happens pretty quick though.
Use them as part of a drinking game. Get a few mates around and each with their own broom. Procede to poke then run like hell. First person to get stung, next jugs their shout. Procede until you pass out from either too much alcohol or being stung 
FlySurfer based on your other posts and the never ending bad luck you have,(postie bike/updating etc) I dare you to poke and annoy the little buggers.
Sitting here just picturing it .Please set up a camera when you do.
Reckon Japie is on the mark,with his advice.
But would be much more fun for the rest of us if you take Newguys advice and tape it. 
They go for your eyes so be careful poking at the little varmints , they guard their nests fanatically so wait till nightfall and spray them , not worth kids getting covered in stings
On a coll night, when less activity, put a metal can over it, with a tight fit against the ceiling.
Then use a large metal sheet to slice it off, wedging it between the can and the ceiling.
This way it falls clean into the can, the metal sheet then acts as a wasp-proof lid.
Me old man used to go one step further: drop the whole thing into a lit fire.
It's gonna pop like popcorn for a while...
.Please set up a camera when you do.
We have 2 types here in Qld, one make the bell shape nests, nasty buggers these, very vindictive. The other make long string nests, hang down, these are pretty cool, not vindictive, probably sting but never have. Been next to our pathway into the house for 2 years, no probs at all.
Dont get to close to them !!!!! Your 4.9 + 4.2 metre pole.!
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Just came home now, nest was on the door mat with ~12 wasp wriggling around it...
Some farker has killed my wasps and who ever did it is going straight to hell without passing Go!
Mrs doesn't know anything about.
The survivors are making another nest in the corner of the door...
Or having a memorial service
prepsol used in automotive painting, put in a trigger spray bottle ,spray in a jet, dispaches those that are touched by the liquid almost instantly and can be done from a fairly safe range.
