How to Prevent Termite Damage | This Old House

Bury a AAA battery 6inches deep every few feet around the house, termites hate batteries

Will my friends house fall down from extensive termite damage? They have made it all the way to the ceiling drywall. Its a house built in the 1940s with asbestos siding. I say it just needs demo'd and built new but it is not within their budget. What to do?

Same thing where we live: it’s not a question of if you have termites, but how bad the termite damage is. We’re getting the new place treated, but we’ve found termite tunnels in the baseboards and the floors. The real question is how bad the parts we can’t see are.

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Ohhhh I can beat that. The wood under my floor was sawdust

What termiticide is used in the concrete

Any chemicals that actually work the EPA takes them off the market 🤔

That guy at the end of the video looked like a dang Muppet

Why not build a concrete beam floor and use bricks/ concrete blocks for the build? This would eliminate 90% of the wood.

build the whole house out of concrete and steel. let the termites chew on that.

How to prevent termite damage: Use steel.

What a big lie. Termites do not cause damage. Termites show up when there's rotting decaying wood that termites need to survive and feed their young. The damage was already done.

Imagine us, who live in a tropical country, like Brazil? Lol

You live in a pretty cold country and have such problema, so imagine living in a tropical country, that IS a paradise for termites....

Pest control is a scam

Great info guys

Stop building with wood. It rots, it creeps and cracks, it burns up in fire. Its 2020, lets build with other modern sturdy, stronger materials.

This should be a automatic law on building new homes, js

I love seeing a pro doing it the right way. PPE and all!

Just tell them to go away. Works every time.

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Why not make the house out of concrete?

At that point, its time to start over

How to prevent termite damage: You can't. You just keep the moisture as low as possible in your crawl space or basement, the grade running away from your house, any debris or wood away from your house....and hope to hell that 6 inches of esposed concrete foundations makes termites go around your house. But it really is just a matter of time. I've worked on tons of houses and I'd say anything over 30 years old has had some type of termite visit it. You can't prevent but you can make it harder for them by just following building code.

what would the reason be to not pour a concrete foundation initially?

Whoever gonna live there will have health issues from all the termite chemical.

I could have sworn that they used to have colony killing termite bait.

Just like they have for ants.

The termites would bring the poisoned termite food back to the colony and queen, and they would eventually die.

This was thousands of dollars cheaper than traditional methods of termite removal... maybe that's why they got rid of it?

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build a brick house instead

This seems like one of those "you will NEVER go hungry" sort of occupations. Dang.

Where is this?

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Not too terrible this time.

I have a teak house in Thailand. I have it sprayed once a month. The inside, outside, the ground around the house, several tubes that run throughout the concrete base pad for the house are filled . And recently, I started having a lot of ground in the one acre yard sprayed, as termites like trees as well. I live in the U.S. and can’t see the day to day termite destruction but several years ago, one tree close to the house had to be cut down because it had rotted from termites and was in danger of falling on house. Last month, 3 coconut trees died from a combination of termite damage and a heat wave. That’s when I started having the trees sprayed.

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He has a copyright on "actually."

The only time to use chemicals is if you can't immediately stop the moisture and need to stop further damage. Subterranean termites do not eat dry wood.

Are termites more destructive than carpenter ants? That’s what we have here.

People think that tenting is a good idea. Tenting only kills the termites in your house. More termites can come back after the tent is removed.

This guys been inhaling too many termite chemicals

Taurus SC termiticide

he's just guessing the chemical without having a flow meter in line on the hose....

Best video .
I have one video like this one.👍

Claymore, claymore, claymore... sorry neighbor, how are the kids?

I saw an old brick home (circa 1890 or so) that had a pane of glass in between the brick courses around the sill level - assume it was an old form of a termite shield. Only time I have ever seen that.

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Are theses old vids

You didn’t go to jenn to show us how to avoid termites. Yesterday’s video showed how to attract them.