This is not really preventative, however I am not sure if I still have
termites or not from last infestation since 2004. It's more of a making
sure they are all gone type action while I have all the walls and some
floors gutted during the remodeling, and no food, or live plants around to
worry about. I remember my current home was tented in 2002, and the price
of it was small, compared to the work to prep everything, all the food in
the refrigerator, all the medicine, everything edible has to be packed and
moved away, I was just thinking it's much easier for this house to do it
while it's a construction site, since we found so much termite dropping
all
over. I mean I found over 12 locations of concentrated termite droppings,
inside lumber and studs and door headers and roof rafters. I think those
are all drywood termites. I did not see a live one, but these spots are
all
distributed over the entire 4000SF house, so they were everywhere and I
have
only gutted half the house (don't plan to gut it totally).
"The Other Dave" <thehouseinspector@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:g6nhto03ub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I should clarify that I am talking about a preventive treatment in my
>previous reply to the original post. Tent fumigation is appropriate for
>treatment of drywood termites if an infestation is present. It would be
>inappropriate for treatment of subterranean or Pacific dampwood termites,
>in either a preventative situation or to treat existing infestations.
>
> "The Other Dave" <thehouseinspector@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:g6lold09tm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Tent fumigation has no residual effect, so it is inappropriate (and
very
>> wasteful of your money) to do it, and would be considered unethical for
>> an honest pest control operator to do, at least in my part of the
>> country. Maybe others will weigh in on this.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> "MiamiCuse" <nmbexcuse@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:FvSdnatOWIefjxHVnZ2dnUVZ_oninZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>I have been remodeling a house for several months now, the house had
>>>termites previously and was tented in 2004. During the remodelig I
was
>>>ripping walls and ceilings down and ran into many spots where there
were
>>>termite damages, studs and rafters that upon touches sent handful of
>>>termite droppings down. I don't think there are any live termites
there
>>>now, but now that all the walls are opened I am considering tenting the
>>>house as a perventative measure.
>>>
>>> However, the house is a wrap around house, with the rooms on the
outside
>>> surrounding a central courtyard with a swimming pool, and the entire
>>> courtyard is covered in an overhead screen. The courtyard is about
>>> 50'x30' in size.
>>>
>>> I don't think it's possible to tent the house without including the
>>> entire courtyard as well, there is no way to remove the overhead
>>> screening so that would make the tent a lot bigger. If the entire
>>> screened courtyard is included, then the entire pool will be under the
>>> tent. Does the gas dissolve in water and will that be a problem? The
>>> pool holds about 25000 gallons of water.
>>>
>>> I also have a spider problem they are really infesting the underside
of
>>> the aluminum screen in the courtyard and I kept spraying them and they
>>> kept coming back. Will the tenting also kill off all the spiders?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> MC
>>>
>>
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