Termite Treatments for Your Home
There are various approaches available to a professional exterminator to treat your home for termites.
Termite Soil Treatment
Soil treatment is just one option for termite treatment and Presto-X offers this approach as part of our ‘Limited/modified’ conventional termite treatment.
Soil treatment is a traditional method for treating termites, which has been used successfully for many decades.
It requires a direct application of the termite treatment material into the soil around the entire exterior perimeter of your home. With this method, treatment inside of your home is limited to only areas where termite activity is found.
Benefits of soil treatment:
- Less disruptive - Significantly less intrusion and aesthetic disruption (i.e. moving furniture, removing carpet, drilling of finished floors, dust) inside your home.
- More environmentally friendly – application of material is localized to strategic areas which reduce the total amount of material used.
- Better for your home and family - restricts the use of treatment materials inside your home (in living spaces) to a fractional amount when compared to traditional conventional treatment.
Termite Monitoring and Baiting
Termite monitoring & baiting may be an effective alternative approach for your home.
This method includes installing bait stations in the soil around the structure of your home. The bait stations are cleverly designed to attract termites, which will readily take the bait on offer and carry it back to the colony. The bait should then be able to kill off large numbers of termites in the colony.
However, it does take some time for termites to find these stations and begin feeding.
The use of bait stations is an environmentally friendly approach to termite control for your home. Presto-X proudly uses this termite control system from Sentricon, which was awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Award.