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I’m in San Francisco and have drywood termites in one corner of my house. (Yes, I’m sure that they are drywood termites.) Does anyone out there have information on the various ways to treat them? My house is not a candidate for tenting because it touches the houses on either side. I’d be particularly interested if there are steps I could take on my own (DIY).
Thanks.
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Rosemary:
I had never heard of drywood termites so I did a little surfing. This was the first link my search engine returned, and it looked kinda interesting.
*RosemaryThe link Mark gave you has a product I use a lot: Boracare manufactured by Nisus. Their price of 93.50 or so a gallon plus shipping is a little high. Try LESCO in Ahaheim, CA, 717-935-0982: I get it for about 267.73/case of (4) gallons. Mix it 50/50 with hot water and saturate the area with a hudson sprayer. You may want to loosen or remove several siding boards, assuming it's on the exterior, in order to fully saturate the interior wall cavity. Ditto if you are working from the interior. If it is in the basement, you can spray the under floor areas and mud sills all along the walls and back about (3) feet into the occupied areas.Boracare is easily mixed and relatively safe to use. In addition, it combats dry rot.Nisus also makes a borax-gel called JECTA which can be syringed into holes bored down at a 45 degree angle ($357.25/case of 48/2.9 oz. tubes).Another product you should check out is Clear Penetrating Epoxy Sealer (CPES) from Smith & Company, 5100 Channel Ave, Richmond, 800-234-0330. CPES is a two-part epoxy resin that can be brushed, sprayed or injected into wood. Rather than directly killing termites and dryrot, it transforms the wood resins into a flexible compound that is no longer tasty to termites and dry rot. They also make an epoxy putty which you can use to repair damaged areas.Good luck,Bill Pickard
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I'm in San Francisco and have drywood termites in one corner of my house. (Yes, I'm sure that they are drywood termites.) Does anyone out there have information on the various ways to treat them? My house is not a candidate for tenting because it touches the houses on either side. I'd be particularly interested if there are steps I could take on my own (DIY).
Thanks.