08-24-2013, 06:23 AM
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Originally posted by sputnut
quote:Looks like good stuff. Boric acid (borate) kills termites and cockroaches and ants, etc. How is it against rot, though I wonder?
Originally posted by terracore
http://www.osmosewood.com/hi-bor/
Required by code. Or so I thought. Either way, it's all I see for sale.
comin' your way soon!
It is only for dry use and shouldn't have direct contact with the ground.
I read a study where they stuck 100 cockroaches into a wall panel framed with hi bor and 100 into another wall panel framed with regular wood. Then after 30 or 60 days (don't remember) they opened up the panels. In the untreated panel the roach population had exploded but in the treated panel they were all dead except for two. So there are other advantages to hi bor other than repelling termites.