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Coby here from Coby’s Tentless Termite, 10 lists of termite and pest control. And today, we’re going to talk about what chemical should you use in the Tampa Clearwater St Pete area, Largo Pinel Park, any anything in Pinellas County and Hillsborough County, what should you use for dry wood termites to treat dry wood termites, drywater termites are a bit different from subtracting dermites, in that when you have an infestation of dry wood termites, you have multiple colonies. So there’s not one colony, you’ll treat one spot and what they will say, Oh, they moved over here. Well, technically, that colony is dead once you treated that colony. But you you can have dozens of hundreds of colonies depending on the depending on the situation, how the building is and how long it’s gone untreated. For the each spot has to be treated, and that’s why, most of the time, people will want to do a fumigation. And if you’re selling your home and you want the cheapest way to do something that that works great. I mean, it does a nice job, but the gas does not last more than five seconds. If it did, you couldn’t go back in your home, and so there’s no residual for that, that product. So our preference is a combination of three different products, D, o, t, diasodium, that detectable rate. I mean, basically it’s 20 multi mixed with a little bit of glycol, and it is now put together, and it changes into a liquid borate, and it does a phenomenal job on on penetrating wood over over a six week period of time, it just goes deeper and deeper into wood, and nothing is known to Take it out. So it’s basically a permanent treatment. But we also like to use transfer products so that if the termite touches or eats it, it’s going to take it back to the colony, COVID colony. And so we like to use both imidacloprid as well as Fipronil, which the most common names for those would be premise and terminal. The liquid borates boar cares is the most common one out there. That nice out so those three products in conjunction with one another, if you’re treating for dry wood termites, I say treated for dry wood termites, if you’re trying to get to as much bare wood in the home as possible. So if you’re going in the attic and treating all the bare wood up there, if you’re injecting into the walls between each each stud, you go underneath the house of the crawl space and treating all that as well. These are the products that you’d want to use if you’re trying to treat a spot. Well, it really doesn’t matter. You could use WD 49 that’s not labeled for termites, but it doesn’t seem to matter. You can use orange oil. You can use premise foam, fuse foam, I mean, just about anything has termites on the label. And if you’re treating a spot, when you treat a spot, it’s done, it’s gone. So it really won’t matter what, what use. You could inject just about anything into that spot where those termites are, and that’s going to kill that little spot there. I It’s not going to solve your terminal problem, but it will treat a spot. And so that’s I wanted to kind of, it depends on what type of treatment that you’re doing with. That despite treatments like I said, they it’s for for anybody who wants to go ahead and and do as little as possible. That’s that’s the easiest way to do that. You probably, and I have not looked at the Home Depots and lows whatnot, but if you have a straw on the end of a can of insecticide on the label, it more than likely it’s going to be labeled for dry wood termites, dry woodland or subterranean termites, which I definitely wouldn’t do a spot channel for subterranean and don’t recommend it for dry woods, but on the label, we can say that, and usually it takes almost a perfect eight inch drill bit drill into that hole. You inject it in there. It floods that cavity. That’s right, and it kills those termites. So those products would move very well for you if you decided to go ahead and do something like that. But if you have questions about this or anything else, give us a call. We’re happy to talk to you. I’m Coby here with Coby’s Tentless Termite. And always remember, as long as God keeps making you’ll keep going. Have a great day. Bye.
