Discontinue pest treatment?

[glorybonilla]

Hey K Turner, I agree with Coyote machine!! Before cancelling the contract you should first confirm that no area is remain with infestation. I remember a few days ago, my sister's place was got infested with rats and one of her neighbour decided to contact professional Rat Control Sacramento CA and took a year contract with them. She is now fully satisfied as no area of her house is infested with any pest. If your area is fully clean, then you can Discontinue pest treatment.

 

[oosik]

Every year I sprinkle a barrier of Diazinon granules around the perimeter of the house. Keeps the bugs outside, where they should be.

 

[comancheflight]

We have a guy in the family that worked for a pest control business.
I was shocked to hear the termite procedure for houses around here that have contracts. If a house has no termites and wants 'protection' they charge around $1500 to install bait stations. This is basically just plain ol pine wood with no insecticide. Then they charge either $35 or $45 a month to inspect. If the bait has termites they count the number and if it is below a certain number (forget the number he said) they put the bait back and do nothing. Once, or if, the number increases beyond the number required it is then replaced with actual termite pesticide. .
So for the money spent your paying to have plain wood around your house..what a rip off.
Oh and the contract states that IF you have something like an inch of snow they do not inspect but you still pay the monthly fee.
This is Sentricon brand they use.

 

[Stimw]

For those doing their own treatment I had a Bug Man tell me the trick for treating wood for carpenter ants and it works for all insects!
Mix the insecticide with Mineral Spirits and spray or paint with a brush. It gets the treatment into the area better than water can.

 

[KYErik]

My house had a full basement but was built on in the mid 70's (the addition has a crawlspace). I saw 3 termite mud tunnels running up the block foundation in my crawlspace (but no obvious damage to surrounding wood) and so I called Terminex for a free estimate. They said they'd either inject the perimeter of the footing with fipronil and drill the concrete front porch and inject lots of fipronil there or set out poison bait stations around the perimeter- 10 year guarantee- for $2K.

I bought the fipronil concentrate off amazon, spend a half day digging a trench around the foundation and drilling the front porch in several places, then injected the fipronil myself with a 30 psi sprayer pump/wand (the pressure of the chemical spraying would "drill" down deeper- so I could get the sprayer tip underground at least 10")- total cost to me was about $75. I knocked down the mud tunnels and soaked that area good- that was last year and so far, no more tunnels.

I asked if the terminex rep if for the $2K they would be drilling lots of holes through the sill in the crawlspace so they could inject chemical down into every void in the concrete blocks- and his response was "no- we don't do that anymore- it isn't necessary".