08-07-2014, 05:56 AM
If you have a pier and post, try to inspect the pier/post on all sides every couple of months for "tubes" that look like roots going up the side into the wood. Subterranean termites don't like light, and somehow seem to know the post that holds the girder splice.
Scrape/wire brush away the tube and treat the wood with over the counter termite treatment, being sloppy with the stuff is no matter to me, as it "treats" the "infected" soil area. An environmentalist would probably fit over this, tho.
Check on infected post areas more frequently for re treatment/scraping.
Slab, unfortunately requires drilling holes through the slab in the infected area to apply treatment by the pro's, along with perimeter treatment.
Dry woods attack the rafters down, feces looks like pepper, but actually little round wood pellets. Look above in the framing for their "outhouse" opening. They like to come in through any attic space opening, so caulking the wood framing splices helps, I prefer a tighter mesh screen on all venting into attic space.
Treatment for dry woods can be surface/removal of bad framing, but usually tenting of home is required.
A basic termite inspection is a written observation of tubes present, as I stated, for subterranean termites, and pellet observation for dry wood termites, and recommended treatment/repairs needed for both. Save yourself some money and inspect on your own, and call in the pros for their side of the work.
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Scrape/wire brush away the tube and treat the wood with over the counter termite treatment, being sloppy with the stuff is no matter to me, as it "treats" the "infected" soil area. An environmentalist would probably fit over this, tho.
Check on infected post areas more frequently for re treatment/scraping.
Slab, unfortunately requires drilling holes through the slab in the infected area to apply treatment by the pro's, along with perimeter treatment.
Dry woods attack the rafters down, feces looks like pepper, but actually little round wood pellets. Look above in the framing for their "outhouse" opening. They like to come in through any attic space opening, so caulking the wood framing splices helps, I prefer a tighter mesh screen on all venting into attic space.
Treatment for dry woods can be surface/removal of bad framing, but usually tenting of home is required.
A basic termite inspection is a written observation of tubes present, as I stated, for subterranean termites, and pellet observation for dry wood termites, and recommended treatment/repairs needed for both. Save yourself some money and inspect on your own, and call in the pros for their side of the work.
Community begins with Aloha