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Have you heard Mestemakers story, it's pretty amazing. He started freshman B-team football in High school for 1 game, never started a game in High School at QB after that, kept practicing but never played QB, he played CB and Safety. Went to a QB camp after he graduated and they saw talent, the QB camp director got him in contact with the coach at North Texas. The team was full but the coach said if one of the walk-ons quit he could join the team, we'll it happened, he was a walk-on. Took reps with rhe 4s and 5s, work hard and made it to where he was 2nd string. Before the bowl game last year, the starting QB transfered and he started the First Responder Bowl game and the coach put him on scholarship. They lost but he threw for 393 yards 2 tds 2int, rushed for 55 yards and a td. Not too bad since his last start was with his freshman high school B-team.

Even the Devil himself used scripture to temp Christ.

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Nobody wants to see that

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Why not, I've seen worse.

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5 years from when?

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Ok,let's say you dug the trench around your house, drilled any holes needed, treated areas with whatever pesticide you choose, fill the trench and holes up and you did all of that today 12/5/2025. Inspect every year and if all is well each year, you wouldn't need to retreat your house until 12/5/2030. If after those 5 years there have been no signs of termites at all, you could choose to wait another few years, it's recommended every 5 years but its up to you.

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How often should this and trenching be done?

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I assuming you live in Louisiana, if that's the case, inspect every year, walk around your house and look for dirt tunnels that lead from the ground to where the slab and structure meet. Ants also make tunnels, you can tell them apart by scratching them, termite tunnels are hard, ants are like an at bed, it will crumble when scratched. Make sure that you don't disturb the soil where the trench is, if you dig the dirt from around the edge of yoir house, you will need to retreat that area. If you find no tunnel during inspection, you're good for 5 years here in Louisiana, they like the warm humid climate of the south, further north you can wait up to 10 years if inspections are clear. Make sure you check the inside of your house as well, anywhere plumbing comes through the concrete. If you're on a pier and beam foundation, you need to check your crawl space.

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Should I drill and treat a few feet from that?

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That's probably a little overkill but it wouldn't hurt if it gives you peace of mind. We would drill about 6 inches from the edge of the concrete so you don't chip a piece off. Inject chemical until you see it come up around thr expansion joint where the driveway and house meet.

Hope this helped, let me know if you have any more questions.

Edna Karr does the same thing in the New Orleans area.

I've seen that video parodied on so many topics and I still laugh my arse off every time. That was good! :lol:

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ok, i understand the barrier portion. i'm trying to understand what's the point of the trench. 8"-10" will only go down a small portion of my grade beams. Is more needed? Is any needed? There just seems to be a lot of arbitrary trench dimensions I've found online. I'm trying to figure out the "why".

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The point of the trench is to make a barrier, the chemical binds to the dirt and prevents the termites from entering through the soil, that's why you fill the trench up with chemical and also soak the dirt you dug out before replacing it. I guess the why would be because you need a continuous treated area around your house which is the most common area subterranean termites enter. There is no need to dig a trench to reach the bottom of your footings, we dug 8"-10" but 6" is standard for the industry. Filling the trench in with rocks would not be a good idea, the chemical cannot bind to the surface of the rocks and keep a long lasting barrier.

Below is what a subterranean termite tunnel looks like, like I said before, it is the most common area for them to infect your house. They are often mistaken for ant tunnels as well. There is a difference, termite tunnels are hard and ant tunnels crumble apart.

Anywhere there is plumbing coming through the concrete (bathroom sinks, washer, kitchen sink etc...) like in the below pic, you need to drill through the concrete and treat the soil just like the above message I posted about drilling. Termites can get through the roughed in areas around plumbing. Make sure you don't push the drill bit too far into the ground after you break through the concrete, so you don't hit one of the pipes, you never know which way the plumber ran the pipes before the concrete was poured.

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can someone point out the rhyme or reason for trenching?

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What your are doing is making a barrier between the dirt and the top edge of your slab. The chemical will not kill the termites unless they are directly sprayed with the chemical. Termites need moisture to survive. If you have termites in your house, the barrier prevents them from returning to the ground for moisture, they dehydrate and die, the ones under the ground cannot get through the barrier and move on to something else. Now if you have a roof, plumbing leak, they don't have to return to the ground.

Below is what we use to make a trench around the house, about 8-10 inches deep, fill the trench up with the chemical, spray and soak the dirt you removed from the trench and replace, that will be a good barrier to prevent the termites from getting into your house from the outside.

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