Eliminating Termites

JOE: Well, doing a little bit of work underneath the back deck and lifted up some old boards that were laying underneath there and found a little nest of termites and eggs. The house has a history of having a little bit of termite damage around it.

 

TOM: OK.

 

JOE: And I was curious – I’ve heard you talk about Termidor before on your program but only exterminators are allowed to spray it, from what I understand.

 

LESLIE: Mm-hmm.

 

TOM: Yep.

 

JOE: So I was wondering if there’s a product on the market that I could self-apply that would help me out.

 

LESLIE: It’s not going to work as well.

 

TOM: Yeah, definitely not going to work as well and not that I’m aware of. There are some baiting systems that are do-it-yourself and I’m trying to recall the company that makes it. It might be Spectracide.

 

LESLIE: The baiting systems are something that you sort of pepper around the yard, Tom? They’re sort of little places that they kind of come to and then get the treatment?

 

TOM: Yeah, conceptually …

 

JOE: Yeah, it’s a little plastic cap with some wood – treated wood in it. Yep, I’ve seen those at the hardware stores before.

 

TOM: Right. Conceptually, what happens is that you wait for the termites to find this and then once they find it, you replace the wood with a piece of material that has termidicide in it and then they take the termidicide back to the nest. But it takes a long time, you have to monitor them regularly and I really think that using a product like Termidor is the quickest, most effective way to be sure that you get them once, you get them right and they’re not going to come back again.

 

See, the reason that you use this product is because it’s an undetectable product. That means that termites don’t know it’s there. They live in the soil and they live deep in the soil and when the product is in the soil, they go through it; they get it on their bodies and they take it back to the nest. I’ve used Termidor now in two houses; been very happy with it and haven’t had any recurrence after we did the application.

 

JOE: OK. So, sounds like it’s worth the investment to have an exterminator come on and apply it then, huh?

 

TOM: I think it is because, I’ll tell you, those termites will keep coming back and they can find a lot of ways in.

 

JOE: Alright.

 

TOM: Joe, good luck with that project. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.