Termites in the House

We used to have termites infestation back when I was still living in my parents' house. The first casualty is our wooden cabinet of books and it ruined our set of encyclopedia and dictionaries, the big hard bound ones whose covers are nice decorative pieces to begin with. They also damaged about 2 planks of the wooden floor of the second floor. Good thing the exterminator we contracted is a good one. Since then, we are wary of termites. This is one heck of a group of insect that can really reduce a house in rotting piles.

We both have the same dilemma. Although we have gotten rid most of it by using sprays or solutions (which I do not know how it is called) still the damaged wood have not yet been replaced. It is a horror!

The first things you do is inspect first all possible areas affected by the damage,so that you could calculate how much chemical solution of Solignum you could buy to raid out that termites,and of course you have to adjust an allowance for use in all the near ground parts of your house.This could guaranty you full safety for more than 8 to 10 years without the termites around.If you put this chemical the termite can instantly be killed and others would run out of your house,because the effectiveness of this chemical is guaranteed.

If you have hired termite exterminator but the problem is still there then the termite exterminator should be called again to repeat his job. Unless he did this job years ago, I think there is something wrong if the termite was completely exterminated.

Hi, The house should be termite-proofed in the first place during the construction phase. The ground is sprayed with an anti termite compound before laying down the foundations. After erecting the foundations, the whole house should be sealed from outside by identifying possible entries and placing compounds there. Woods should be treated similarly before installing them as beams, trusses, and other structures. In that way, termites has no way doing business in that kind of building.

I have heard they eat cardboard or something and can die from it. Or what this article says... http://www.getridofthings.com/pests/termites/

Yes, they are so small and their bit of team-work is so big! In my childhood, we had this termites at our old home and they eaten up the wooden furniture and books etc., especially in the monsoon times. Once it is affected, they will finish in few days time. We used to apply the 'kerosine' and that was the only solution. Just take a little (may be 25-30 ml. of kerosine and apply or put in some cotton cloth and place it where the termites are visible. Also, if it is large in accumulation or placed in a heap of earth, you can pour the kerosine over it and it will slowly move away from the area. However, this is a low-cost metheod and effective also. Try it and see if it works.

Strength is unity might be offbeat here but true to it's word. These termites are very powerful creatures they can chew down anything to dust. They make it vulnerable for people to keep a nice collection books as they tore them up into pieces. I have many such books (mostly of ancient architecture) which I liked very much. But fortunately saved a part of them as it was either dis selected by them or they didn't get enough time to reach those books. I did not called up any exterminator instead I kept them to a safer place. I never tried termite infestation as there are no such services available here. But there are many websites those sell services and chemical (insecticides) to kill termites.

hiring exterminators should fix the problem, if you already have but the termite infestation still continues that means the queen is still there, killing the queen is the only solution. Try pouring some flea powder on the termites, they will bring the powder to their queen and hope the flea powder kills it.