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It's normal to reinspect the bait stations and the buildings and surrounds every month to reposition, reapply or replenish the bait, if necessary. This process is labour intensive so that the long term cost of the monitoring / baiting system may accumulate from hand before the chance of success or is realised. .
Ring the Pros: effective termite protection of a building using a baiting program often requires professional ability and judgment, based upon years of field-work experience in termite control in a wide array of circumstances.
One critical aspect is that the bait stations must be installed in areas where termites are more likely to be foraging. The termites should"find" the stations to have any chance of succeeding.
CONSUMER NOTICE: Be cautious of any advertising or promise a timber replacement warranty uses as regards subsequent termite damage to a building using a termite colony elimination system. Does this Contract stipulate in the fine print that the so called"warranty" may (or may not) employ at any future point in time to be decided by the company.
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With a termite baiting program, there can be no absolute guarantee of long-term protection of nearby buildings. There can be other termite nests nearby the building which do not find the bait stations. Your house is a much bigger bait station. Other termite nests may exist in trees, under concrete on-ground flooring and in-fill patios of neighboring lands. .
The Sentricon baits are placed in their in-ground bait stations after removal of the termite infested timber therein. This may involve sufficient disruption of the termites such that they prevent the in-ground Sentricon bait station, entirely.
RECOMMENDATION: Exterra or Sentricon be used where a comprehensive chemical soil barrier treatment using Termidor or Premise is not practicable or desirable, and where a several thousand termites are likely to eat the bait.
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A termite monitoring and baiting program can be integrated with a range of methods including (1) drilling susceptible trees and eradication of any termite nest located therein, and more information (2) in conjunction with a follow up chemical soil treatment using Termidor or Premise.
Rapid termite colony development and building infestation is generally connected with a readily available timber food and moisture source nearby the central nest. In addition, buildings are often constructed in a way that allow termites to gain undetectable entry in the soil into the structural timbers of the building. Listed below are some useful recommendations for the house owner to carry out in order to reduce the possibility of termite activity inside a building. .
Moisture exclusion from inside the wall cavities, around the bottom of the building and sub-floor area (if any). Water run-off can be excluded from a sub-floor region from the installation of ag-drains. Make certain there is sufficient cross flow ventilation in the sub floor location. In addition, a qualified plumber should be engaged to ensure there is no water leakage from plumbing pipes in the bathroom, the shower recess, kitchen, down pipes, guttering and air conditioning unit overflow.
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Please note: high humidity, dampness or moisture accumulating in a wall cavity is of high risk to encouraging large scale termite activity inside the building. .
Removal of any wood in contact with the soil. Timbers should be kept above ground to permit complete inspection of subterranean termite activity (coming out of the ground thereunder). Any landscaping using timber chip mulch and railroad sleepers should definitely be eliminated, as they supply prepared food source to help in rapid termite colony development. .
Ensure inspection access is unimpeded, especially in sub-floor regions (suspended floors) in order to search for evidence of termite activity. If your house is on a concrete slab on ground flooring, be certain you can inspect the entire external slab border for evidence of termite mud-shelter tubes. Do NOT allow this region to be covered by pavers, landscaping, planter pots, etc, as termites often gain entry into the walls of a building via this locality, particularly through external weep holes and minute (2 mm) gaps in the mortar in brick-work. .
Should you find live termites or termite damaged timbers DO NOT disturb the area. DO NOT use spray can or insecticides on the termites. If sufficiently disturbed, the termites will probably move everywhere, and might not be rediscovered until additional obvious damage has been done. The termite controller can introduce Intrigue termite dust or Exterra termite bait directly to the live termites present in an attempt to eliminate the entire termite colony - as mentioned in detail above.