While helping my mother clean a bedroom today we discovered that the wooden bed and wood parquet had been eaten by what we assumed was termites as we found wings on the floor. What can we treat this with or do we call pest control ?
Termite infestations on anything made of wood is a homeowner's nightmare. It is essential that everyone keeps an eye on their furniture to check the growth of termites and kill them before they destroy your furniture. The termites eat away at the structure as well as any wooden furniture and can do major damage if you do not exterminate them right away. You can call in an exterminator, but the cost is high, especially if they have to keep coming back.
When a termite infestation is present, you have two choices:
1) rely on the services of a qualified and experienced termite control operator.
Termite extermination can be fairly expensive, the cost is usually justified by the special equipment such as concrete drills and pressure applicators, technical knowledge and experience, and large volumes of chemicals and time required to properly apply the treatment. Special attention should be given to termite-proofing chemicals and structures built into buildings on “floating” concrete slabs. If the slab cracks, even as little as 1/32 of an inch, the termites are afforded a well- protected, hidden, and direct route to and from their food source
2) attempt to control them yourself. The first choice, in most cases, is recommended.
Do-it-yourself termite control is seldom satisfactorily achieved. There are DIY Termites Treatment kits available in the market for dry wood termite infestations. There are too many obstacles to getting a good and effective treatment for the homeowner. You are taking a real risk with you house if you try to do this yourself. My rule is that it's OK to treat termites outside your house in areas like sheds, fence posts and wood piles, but once they come inside...call a professional termite exterminator. It's definitely worth having a professional termite exterminator look at the problem
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