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Ensuring a concrete slab is poured to Australian Standards can potentially make an excellent termite barrier for your property.
How big a gap do termites need to get through concrete? Read a study on how a concrete slab can be used as a termite barrier. It's food for thought for anyone building a home on a concrete slab. A few tweaks and you can have the termite protection permanently built into your home!
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Read MoreTermite baiting allows a home to be protected from Termite colonies by eliminating the colony before it gets to the home.
Baits are installed around the perimeter to feed the termites a bait that eradicates the colony. But what if the home is surrounded by concrete?
That's where we use in concrete bait stations.
First - we make a nice round hole in the concrete..
BORING! Hmm.. Soft like butter!
A Sentricon Always active bait rod, along with it's built in extraction plastic ring thingy and a stainless steel cap.
Next - We clean up our mess and install a Sentricon Always active termiticide rod in the hole.
And Voila! We put a beautiful stainless steel cap on top which seals with an expandable rubber grommit.
The Sentricon Always active rod will now protect the home from any termites foraging in the vicinity of the home. The termites will feed on the rod and take the termiticide back to the nest, this will gradually eliminate the colony so it's no longer a threat to the home!
An in concrete baiting system ready to go!
The cap is installed and seals the rod in it's little hidey hole!
See some termite damage found in Newcastle when our inspector went deep in a roof void!
Read MoreTake this simple termite test to see if your home is susceptible to termite attack!
Read MoreAnt capping is barrier that prevents termites from being able to get into a building undetected, this is generally made of a strip of galvanised metal shielding. It's very purpose is not to stop termites completely, but to give them some sort of obstruction so that they have to build a mud shelter tube to go around.
These can often be overlooked and forgotten about when renovations take place, repairs or changes are made to the existing building and sometimes can just rot away without anyone noticing.
The ant capping metal shield with it's inspection edge being completely covered by a cover strip.
This ant cap was not joined properly during construction, and to add to the potential problems, is clearly rusting away.
An addition to this property has resulted in the ant capping being compromised, you can clearly see that the ant cap does not completely cover the new vertical cover strip, causing an easy passage for termites to get in undetected.
Vertical Transitions such as this one, are a commonplace entry point for termites.
This photo clearly demonstrates a vertical transition where the ant capping is not joined, for the ant capping to be effective both the lower and upper sections of ant capping need to be joined in the middle to form a continuous barrier. In this particular case, it was virtually impossible to visually inspect between the two levels as there was poor access. That's why it's important to get it right during the construction phase.
How can a Termite inspection save you water and money? Find out!
Read MoreSee why we recommend Termidor for our general pest treatments. It's non repellant nature is not only effective for Termites, but has tremendous benefits to control other pests.
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Spring brings about some lovely weather and great times! Termites, unfortunately, also enjoy the warmer months. See what you can do to avoid them this Spring.
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