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Q. What are Termites?
A. There are two kinds of termites that are most usual in California. They are commonly called SUBTERRANEAN and DRYWOOD termites. Both kinds use the wood of your house for food.
SUBTERRANEAN TERMITES
To reach their food, which is in your house these termites always have their nest in the ground, they must find a way to travel back and forth. Which is done through tubes they constructed. When they leave the ground in search for food The tubes serve to protect them from their enemies. These tubes usually detect the presence of subterranean termites in your house. Your termite inspector knows where and how to look for them.
DRYWOOD TERMITES
These termites are also responsible for using the woodwork of your house for their food and for their home. They spend their entire life within the woodwork and never go to the ground. They don’t make tubes. Through the presence of small pellets resembling coarse sawdust your termite inspector detects them. These pellets are ejected from their habitat through holes they make in the wood. You may have seen these pellets on windowsills or about your house.
Q. What can be done about termites infestation?
A. The termite control operator has three possible methods of dealing with DRYWOOD TERMITES.
Removal of all infested wood. This is a good method, but it is seldom used. It is only possible to see a very small portion of the wood in which most houses is built. It is very expensive to tear a house apart just for examination. However, There is no way to be sure that all infestations have been removed unless actual inspection of all the woodwork is made.
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Drilling and treating: Using this method, holes are drilled into the wood where the colonies are found then pesticides are injected. The insects that can be found can effectively be destroyed.
Fumigation: With this method, lethal gas which penetrates into the termite channels and kills the insects is accessible to every part of the house.
Soldier Termites
Q. How did the DRYWOOD TERMITES get into my house?
A. There’s a possibility of them flying in through attic vents, small cracks in the eaves or around windows. Infestations most frequently start this way. Also they may have been in the lumber that went into the original construction. Unless accidentally discovered during construction new infestations in timber are very difficult to be detected easily.
Q. What is whole house treatment of drywood termites?
A. Fumigation. all pets, plants, remove or seal medications, and food must be removed for fumigation. Also depending on the type of infestation, size of the house and other factors you will be required to stay out of the house approximately three to five days. The house is then enclosed in a tent of vinyl tarps and sealed with plastic, tape, or other materials. When it is safe to return the fumigation will post a sign on the property.
Q. What is localized treatment?
A. The use of pesticides, electric current, extreme cold, localized heat, microwave energy, or any combination of these are included by local or spot control methods. The removal and replacement of infested structural timbers are included by local or spot control. These treatments are not designed for whole house eradication also methods are intended to remove or kill termites only within the specific targeted areas, leaving open the possibility of other undetected infestations within the structure. If any pest control company that claims whole house results with local or spot control is guilty of false advertising and should be reported.
Drilling and injecting pesticides into infested timbers are also pesticides treatment involved by local or spot treatment, as well as topical application. Delivering electric energy to targeted infestations is a method involved by the electric current. Liquid nitrogen is pumped into wall voids adjacent to suspected infestation sites, reducing the area to -20°F for the extreme cold method. The localized heat method involves heating infested structural timbers to 120°F. By directing microwaves into termite infested wood the microwave method kills termites.
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Q. Why doesn’t the regular termite man do my fumigation?
A. In addition to being termite specialists some termite operators are good fumigators. Fumigation with a lethal gas is considered by many termite operators to be better done when left to the specialists, who, acquire great skill and can more economically maintain the equipment necessary having done a great deal of fumigation. Same way your family physician may call for an intensively trained specialist same way a termite operator may often prefer to have his fumigation performed by a specialist in that class of work.
Q. Why do I need a termite inspection?
A. To be sure there are no active termite infestations in any home they finance many lenders require it. If you’re buying, you want to be certain that you’re not buying termites alongside termite damage along with your new house.
Q. How long does the inspection take? What’s involved?
A. Usually, For a skilled, experienced technician will check the entire house thoroughly, from foundation to roof in less than an hour. He knows the exact place to look for telltale signs of the presence of termites or other wood destroying insects, and any damage. Mostly his tools may include a flashlight, a rubber mallet, a screwdriver or other probe, and perhaps a small long-handled mirror for inspecting areas that are hard to reach where termites are often found.
Q. What if no evidence of termites is found?
A. Then you will receive a written notification stating that no visible evidences of infestation have been found in the accessible areas that were checked. But its necessary that any home should be regularly reinspected, especially if signs of termites are shown by neighboring homes.
Q. How can I recognize a reliable termite firm?
A. Get references from trusted homeowners who have used them. You can check with local banks and Real Estate Professionals who deal with them. Or ask pointed questions about their business history and their people. Investigate properly on how well trained their inspection personnel are, and if the company belongs to local, state or national pest control associations.
Q. What if the inspection shows termites or other wood destroying insects are present?
A. Then to prevent any further damage it is necessary to treat the property.
Q. What chemicals are used to control termites?
A. Organophosphates and synthetic pyrethroids are the two major classes in use today. Which are both effective and safe when used properly, but there are some significant differences between them. These differences to you will be happily explained to you by your pest control professionals.
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Q. Will my family have to vacate the house?
A. Only if it is deemed necessary to treat for drywood termites. While the house is occupied Subterranean termites can be controlled. Again, whatever procedures are necessary will be carefully explained to you by your pest control professional.
Q. Will there be an odor?
A. After treatment there may still be a slight odor for a while. However, it doesn’t linger, and any trace of it should disappear within a few days.
Q. If a treatment is needed, what might be the cost?
A. Costs varies differently, and without the complete inspection involving the size and structure of the house determined,and other factors assessed then no meaningful answer can be given. However, it is important to remember that the cost of termite treatment is minor especially when compared to the equity and investment represented in a home.
Q. Could I do it myself?
A. It will be unprofessional, and since it requires special equipment and application techniques, Experienced personnel who have been thoroughly trained have the professional skills necessary to do the job properly.
Q. What if there already is extensive damage?
A. In a case whereby the integrity or appearance of the structure has been threatened by the damage, then it must be repaired. Despite this being a specialized type of work, repair and help can be offered by your pest control representative as they are familiar with it.
Q. Termites won’t attack a new house, will they?
A. It’s unfortunate,that they have been known to… sometimes only within days of completion.
Q. How do subterranean termites get into a house?
A. Without stress. They only require an opening 1/64” wide. They may enter directly from the soil, or they build airtight tubes that penetrates from their colony in the soil to the wood of your house. Usually, they commute between the wood and their colony daily.
Q. How important is thoroughness in termite inspections?
A. The fact that an undetected termite infestation could result in damage later makes it very important.
For further questions, at the comment section below you can leave us your email address and telephone number. We will endeavor to call you back.
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