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is anyone of you taking preventive action on these little buggars on your property before they decide to move into your Hale? I'm curious about the price to have your house or property treated for termites?
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I'm building right now and I elected to get termimesh put around all of the slab penetrations. It won't termite proof the structure, but it will do is prevent them from getting up through the slab, which forces them to enter my house from around the outside. Now if I have termites, at least I'll be able to see the termite tubes on the outside of the house vs a sneak attack through the slab. It also wasn't too terribly costly to get put in. Hope that helps.
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Mat,
Not True…..The termite tubes are only from the subterranean termite.
The dry termite will fly in drop it’s wings and eat away.
They say that the subterranean does the most damage
but I have 3 neighbors who’s homes are destroyed by the dry
termite. I’m told by the pest man that we don’t have the
subterranean type down in HB. Our home is the same age
(33 yrs) and we have very, very little damage and no active
termites currently. This house was tented often and the last
tenting was 4 years ago.
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I live in the park and had my house built 20 years ago. When it was first built...they used specially treated lumber which worked for a long time but finally we have termites. Not really bad....but enough to notice little piles of wood occaisionally.
But we're not going to call the extermination tent people either and waste money every couple of years to get rid of them temporarily. I don't believe in flooding our house with that stuff.
Hey!...We live in the tropics where insects rule. Get use to it.
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There are a few different methods to defeat termites.
Use Bora-Care or mix your own and treat all lumber, you can also seal the lumber after treatment.
Use termite mesh or sand.
Use cedars, redwood, douglas fir lumber; other woods can be better but these are generally available and some what cheaper.
Keep your wood dry.
Use barriers: some fit under/in concrete around pipes, others are a laid on the concrete between the base plate.
Use fiberglass papered drywall instead of the common dry wall backed this paper (also can prevent mold).
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quote:
Originally posted by Jared I....Use fiberglass papered drywall instead of the common dry wall backed this paper (also can prevent mold).
And the cockroaches dont like this type of drywall either!! one stone/two bugs!
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in 2006, we paid app. $2000 to tent our kailua, o'ahu house which is 50+ years old. the termites were coming from our neighbor's christmas berry tree. they have since installed senticon (spelling) which we used on our kapolei, o'ahu home. can't remember the cost of that system.
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I have to wonder why wood is still being used, given the termite problems on the island. With products like those carried by Castleblock, why do people take a chance on traditional building methods?
That's not a rhetorical question. I am sincerely interested in why people who are building decide to go with wood since we are not that far away from starting our own construction.
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Seems to me that if termites are part of the environment, why tempt them with delicious wood. When we build we will try to stay totally away from wood. i,e, Steel, stone, brick, aluminum, Trex etc. I got to believe you can build something that will not be eaten by these insects!
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Originally posted by hpp4me
I have to wonder why wood is still being used, given the termite problems on the island. With products like those carried by Castleblock, why do people take a chance on traditional building methods?
That's not a rhetorical question. I am sincerely interested in why people who are building decide to go with wood since we are not that far away from starting our own construction.
I think Castleblock became a much much more viable material when CCA lumber was eliminated. (It looked good before but IMHO become a really good alternative.)
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