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Coby here with Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control, and I love to go on my search engine for my my AdWords, and seeing the different what search terms people typed in. And one of them is, is it alternatives for tenting, for toys? And the good news is there is, well, obviously, with our name being Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control, l, there would be your alternative. And so what the biggest difference is is, well, actually, there’s several one you’re not having to leave your home, bag up your medicine, take your pets, and you’ve out for so many days, worry about damage to your home and other things. So that’s one of the things you don’t have to do. But the other big one is longevity. Fumigations are designed to kill immediately and then disappear. There’s absolutely no residual to a product. So people will go ahead termite companies will go ahead and gear in here for four or five years, knowing that those termites are coming back, either the year that they treated the home or the next year, because those it the area is for festival termites. The trees are the other homes in the areas are wood piles, fences, shrubs, all that stuff has drive with termites, and they’re going to swarm over and over and over again and get right back into your home. They give you a four or five year warranty, because you’re not likely to see a swarm for at least five years, because that’s how long it takes for two termites, 251, termites to come together. And once they’ve done that, then they the colony Bill big enough before it could make it fly out that takes five years. So they’re getting a five year warranty on something that you’re not going to see for five years anyway. So that’s a bone of contention with me, but, but it’s the way they run their business, and they did kill your termites so that they’ve done what they said they were going to do. That being said, the alternatives to that is to go ahead and treat as much bare wood in the home as you can now. You go about doing that by treating the attic, treating if you have crawl space crawling underneath, treating all the bare wood that’s underneath the floor and whatnot. If you have wooden frame in the walls, you need to treat in between each one of those studs. And if you have an older home where you have wood laugh that goes across and then plaster on that, you have to make sure every board is treated. And there’s special ways to go ahead and do that. So there is alternatives. We they really need to know what they’re doing with that, because it would be pretty easy to miss one of those spots and for them to be a big problem. Also the combination of or the products that they use. For example, if you use a powdered borate the one that most people are familiar with is Tim bore. It does a fantastic job. If you’re treating a brand new structure that has just been built, it does a terrible job if you have an older home with existing infestation. And the reason for that is is that when you go ahead and put down a powdered product, it’s like dredging a piece of chicken and flour before you fry it, you put it in there and you fry, it gives you a great crust, but it doesn’t penetrate into the wood. Liquid borates, on the other hand, do, and so that’s why it’s it’s so important to go ahead and use the right products. There’s a lot of people that are using what they think will be a very good job for a existing infestation, and unfortunately, this doesn’t work real well, and a lot of them give up and say, you have to get fumigation. So there absolutely is alternatives. Our specialty, what we specialized in over the last 20 years, and that we’d love to talk to you about that or any other pest problem you may have, so feel free to give us a call, and we’d love to speak with you.
Always remember, as long as God keeps making them, we’ll keep killing them. Have a great day. Bye.
