Anyone here get commercial grade termite control and do it themselves?

Termites are cool

If you planning on keeping the house forever, you can do it. If you ever sell, your treatment doesn't count.

My house is not that old and I have a certificate saying the dirt under the slab was treated prior to pouring.

Should I really ever have to worry about termites as long as I can see the slab all around the house and there are no exterior dirt tunnels? House is all brick.

Under the slab should have been treated before the cement was placed, I think that barrier is good for 20 maybe 30 years but I may be wrong. I had a slab poured against my house and didn't get it treated, therefore I will have to drill holes in my concrete to place the product under the slab.

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I use Talstar Xtra which us supposed to control termites

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hmm. Didn't know talstar killd them.

What you want is fiprinil, generic termadore. It doesn't repell like Tallstar, it attracts and contaminates the rest of the crew. And it is supposed to last 10 years when you dig the trench. Now remember you need a large container to spray the stuff like one on the back of a four wheeler, I sprayed like 300 gallons.

have a point about seeing your slab, but are you really going to go out there every month and inspect it?

I had my slab treated, but did the trench after the house was built. Five years later now that the house is flooded I see I have live termites in five different places. There was not that much damage, so I think they may have been from the swarm of this summer.

I bought some more Fiprinil and sprayed topically, this application is supposed to last six months. You can get a bottle on Amazon for $20 and it will last you two years.