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Hi, I’m Coby with Coby’s Termite and Pest Control. And if you live in Pinellas or Hillsborough County, you may have asked yourself, how do you treat for dry wood termites? Termites in general? Well, in the case of of dry wood termites, because all they need is a dry piece of wood to survive. You have to get to where those termites are, and the most common thing you’re going to see is doors, windows, eaves, attics, crawl spaces, any place where the wood is on the outside of a home is where you’re going to see the first pressure as those colonies age and they get further and further into the home, you’ll start notice them on the interior doors, interior rooms coming out of the ceiling, along with other locations up through the floor, if you have a crawl space. And these are just because as those colonies get further and further, older and older, they get further and further into your home. How do you treat for them? Well, what we prefer to do is to go ahead and to spray a liquid traumaticide on the wood. And the reason we like to do that is we know that that we use three different products. We use borates and the same products that are in the front line and advantage let you put on your animals for fleas and ticks. The reason we use those is because those products have been used for many, many, many years, gosh, taking almost 30 years now. On on the pet products and borates have been used for well over 100 years now. So if you’re in Pinellas County, or if you’re in Hillsborough County, you want something that’s on the wood to when the termites do come in, because every single year they’re going to come in. So as they swarm and as they come in, you want something where they take a bite and they die, and that is what we have found to be the best treatment over the long term. Now, if you just want them gone, you’re selling your home. By all means. Let the other people worry about that. That’s up to you, but if you want to control them for you for the long term, so that you don’t have problems, you’re not replacing damage and whatnot, then, yeah, that’s what you want to do. You want something that’s going to protect the home for a long period of time, that isn’t going to go any place, and those products will stay on that wood and in that wood for many, many years. And so that’s what we prefer to go ahead and do. So that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s how we would go about treating for for tribal termites in in your home, if you’re in the Tampa Bay area. I’ll get into the next video. I’ll get into subterranean termites. And why don’t we treat the way that we do for those so if you have a question about this or anything else, please give us a call. I’m Coby with Coby’s Termite and Pest Control. As long as God keeps making them, we’ll keep killing them. You have a great day. Bye.
