03-12-2012, 07:15 PM
Michael wrote:
[quote=graylocks]
oh, god! i live in georgia. i haven't had a termite inspection since i moved in 18 years ago.
i'm doomed!
Me too!
But, we have a concrete wall basement (pretty rare in GA), covered with brick that goes down 2 feet in the ground. The nearest wood is 2 feet off the ground and I wander around the house inside and outside every 6 months or so looking for termite tunnels and/or sawdust. I've not seen any since our house was built 21 years ago.
Here's some info: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/.../index.htm
Construction of my house is similar to this... and it was also pretty obviously treated with a lot of what the first exterminator I hired to inspect the place called "Kill-Everything-Athon." He looked around my crawl space, pointed out a couple of holes in the cinderblocks where "something" had obviously been applied many years before (house was built in '68), and said, "Look around. There's no creepy-crawlies in here. And this is July in Georgia, man!"
"Wait five years and call me back. Whatever they put in here in the Sixties is still working great!"