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8 years ago

What is the best protection

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Luke Buckle

8 years ago

I have used FumaPest for reticulation and fund them professional.
One time, the inspector was too large to fit down the man hole do my wife went instead. Haha

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MB Design & Drafting
8 years ago
There is no 'best protection' as such... Visual inspections should also be a regular thing. Termites can go through concrete to get to one piece of timber......
jmm1837
8 years ago
Our last house was in a termite prone area, so there were various measures taken in the construction, but ultimately we relied on annual inspections by the pest guy.
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wuff
8 years ago
Australia is a termite prone area
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jmm1837
8 years ago
Oh, I know, but being a "furriner" I assumed that having rather large termite mounds a few meters down the road made us a bit more vulnerable!
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wuff
8 years ago
Different sorts of termites, the coastal planes the termites don't do mounds but still eat your house .... The inland and northern termites build big mounds. I am not sure if alpine areas get termites but certainly all of west Aus
wuff
8 years ago
http://termi-mite.com.au/Termite-Types-and-Risks.html
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jmm1837
8 years ago
Well, like I said I'm new here (relatively). But these were big mounds and in very coastal NSW. Maybe N. Exitiousus?Thanks for the link,
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wuff
8 years ago
No worries re the link, every home owner needs to be very vigilant re termites in this country, not sure where you come from Jimmy originally but make sure any friends etc are aware of this ruthless little beast
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jmm1837
8 years ago
Hi wuff - I'm a Canuck by origin, so used to a whole different set of pests. But those termite mounds were scary!
K C
8 years ago
You can't even rely on pest inspections. When we bought our house we had pest inspection done, nothing showed in the report. Three months later we renovated the kitchen, builder discovered significant damage to the southern side of the house, had to replace a 7 metre beam holding up the roof. Not to mention damage to the kitchen dining room, ensuite, bedroom. No come back on the pest inspectors as the detail was in the fine print. They did a chemical treatment at a "discounted" price. Several months later, I could hear the termites munching in the wall. Pest guys came back again and used arsenic powder in the roof space. Knock on wood we have had none since.
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wuff
8 years ago
819ester, and jmm, my parents have had same problems with that fine print, so expensive the treatment, we always had to have spot treatments in our garden at every inspection in our last house, in a 50s-60s house now probably safely sitting on the old banned treatment under the stumps, no sign so far...now I need to touch wood :). Can't think of the old treatment name
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8 years ago
819esther,

To be fair, inspections are usually visual and only become invasive if there are any signs to cause concern - that is, you can't see what you can't see. The reason being that you can't just start busting holes in walls just in case there might be something more sinister behind the wall lining.

I'm glad to hear that you now have it under control because they are hungry little buggers - and noisy as you know!!!

Cheers!
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K C
8 years ago
Yes wuff they banned all the good stuff
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wuff
8 years ago
Was the chemical heptachlor, the old banned treatment..?? It worked
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K C
8 years ago
I think that was it wuff. We had a house built in 1992 and they were still using it then. Ok, so not good for the environment and questionable for humans but kept those little buggers away.
chubbychicky
8 years ago
Most building inspectors will only ever say whether they saw visible signs of termite activity, not a clear no. As it was explained to us, although no activity was found, that doesn't mean that termites weren't moving in as he was walking away......makes sense.
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