How To Resolve Termite Issues. 1st Of All You Have A Home

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For old houses where termite signs are found, treatment is completely different as mentioned above. In this case, drilling is done up to the depth of 2ft along all the internal and external walls of the house and medicine is pumped in with pressure.
Wood that is water-damaged or rests directly on the ground is very likely to attract damp wood termites. and some of the more likely things that dampwood termites are drawn to include stumps, lumber, fallen logs, and tree branches that are left in direct contact with the ground. In addition, damp wood termites may also infest rarely seen areas affected by roof leaks or cracked drainpipes.

To remain hidden, dampwood termites do not construct mud tubes, rather they cover up their entry holes with their own feces. Since wood infested by dampwood termites has very high moisture content, the wood they infest can also be damaged by fungus.

Dampwood termites get their name from the damp, sometimes decaying, wood that they use to locate their colonies. Dampwood termites do not typically nest in the soil. They will invade wood that is on the ground, especially if it is ...
... decaying.
Termite proofing treatment / sign, inspection, details
what do you know Termites tend to avoid open air and bright lights, and as a result, their colonies are typically underground, Out of sight or within wood materials so more often than not, he was able to escape your gaze and gain his foods status,

For this reason, it’s important to get a professional pest or termite inspector who knows common areas to check for termite damage or conditions conducive to termites.

Termite fumigation in Karachi
Our pest and termites inspection staff first of all inspect around of your property area, The areas that will be inspected include the interior and exterior of the building as well as accessible roof cavities and subfloor areas. It is also important to see how many parts have been damaged by termites. which is give termite treatment our company it was To say termite proofing or termite fumigation.

Termite treatment
Termite is that type of an insect which can be destructive for a newly or old constructed house. Specially for houses that have lots of solid wood used during finishing works such as in doors, door frames, wardrobes, consoles, kitchen cabinets etc. It can be devastating both for natural solid wood and laminated sheets such as palaiwood or MDF. It can even destroy anything made from paper such as books and your official documents. It is found everywhere specially in newly developed societies where most of the plots or land surrounding your house is empty or has old trees that attract termites.

Major source of food for termites is rotten wood and if you have any tree in your lawn or outside home that has rotten roots or stems will definitely attract termites. Different woods have different natural characteristics, some woods are hard and some are soft. Soft woods are also one of the sources that attract termites. Another attraction for termites is moist wood, any wood that has more than acceptable moisture content should not be used during construction or kept inside house after finishing. It will attract termite which will then make its way inside the house and causing damage. Termites are smart enough to make their way through sewerage pipes or electric conduit pipes to anywhere their food source is. Though it cannot eat uPVC or plastic but it can definitely make its way through it. Similarly, termite cannot damage concrete or bricks but it can fit through the cracks available to it.

For natural environment, termites are beneficial since it eats up the rotten wood and turns it into an organic material that improves the quality of soil. But when we develop and build house on land, termites become destructive. Termites exist in form of family and a colony that has a king and queen responsible for reproduction till the family reaches a certain size. For a house to be completely safe from a termite attack, precautionary measures are mandatory at the time of construction at certain stages to prevent this colony from being nourishing. These precautionary measures are termed as “anti-termite spray” or “termite treatment”. Sometimes it is also referred to as “termite proofing”, however in reality there is no thing as termite proofing because there is no medicine that can completely eradicate or kill the termites. Termite treatments keep the insects away from the area within which treatment has been done.

Signs of termite in a house
Most significant signs of termite presence in a house is the emergence of mud tubes on walls in irregular but upward direction as shown in picture below. If these kind of tubes exist on internal or external walls of your house, then it definitely means that termite is damaging wood items of your house. Similar tubes should be searched on tree stems too inside or outside your house. If found, tree should be removed before the termite travels inside the house or anti termite spray should be carried out at earliest.

Next round of spray is done at the time of internal and external floor pack. When compaction of floors is done and brick ballast or gravel is laid, before concreting all internal and external spaces of ground floor are sprayed using same medicine through same company that was used at the time of stage 1.

Treatment for old house

For old houses where termite signs are found, treatment is completely different as mentioned above. In this case drilling is done up to the depth of 2ft along all the internal and external walls of house and medicine is pumped in with pressure. An alternate to this method that is in practice these days is special pvc piping during the construction of foundations of a house as shown in picture below. This method is also recommended as it has special inlet nozzle visible outside from where medicine can be pumped into the foundations and directly into the soil anytime in future if required. However mostly this method has a blocking disadvantage of its outlet nozzles present inside foundations or concealed in soil.