Termite treatment?

It's termite swarming season, so they are everywhere. I keep finding dead ones in the house, but this happens every summer. I just leave all the outside lights off for a week or so until they are gone, in hopes they'll swarm less around the house.

If you haven’t seen a termite in 15 years, you’re doing something right.

I don't personally. I just treat my own house every year, and make sure there are no mud tubes going from ground/slab into structure.

I believe Termidor is trade name for fipronil.

I've been with Terminex for 20+ years. They just completed my 7 yr trench & drill concrete booster last week. They applied approx 125 gallons of Taurus (generic fipronil) for $1600. My contract is a 100% repair damage if live termites are found in damage. Annual treatments at $170 to spray around slab w/o trench and drill.

DoItYourself Pest Control? has 77 oz. jug of Taurus for $100. A 1 oz. per gallon mix makes 77 gallons - really economical.

Technician used a pick axe - 1st pick to dirt around slab to break up grass roots and start a trench, then second pass with flat end to open trench.

We had already sprayed Roundup around slab so grass was dead and a solid rain a few days before Terminex made that pick and trench work easy peezy. Pick cut through the dead grass/wet dirt like hot butter.

Trench was only wide as the pick blade and every 10 ft. the tech just mounded up the loose dirt to make a dam to hold 4 gallons of Taurus in that section.

Terminex application rate is 4 gallons every 10 ft. Spray 2 gallons per 10 ft in trench, push dirt back in trench with rubber-booted foot, spray 2 more gallons on top of trench and rinsing mud splatter from slab.

I'm told termite companies don't contract for 100% damage repair very often these days - maybe if contract is from new construction.

I'm 60, if I were younger Id be tempted to trench and treat it myself with $200 of Taurus IF a 100% repair contract was unavailable.

Booster Treatment Prep:
-Spray roundup around slab.
-Weed Eat dead grass out of the way.
-Spray water down side of slab for couple of times to make trench job easier.
Buy/use a pick to trench
-Manual pump up sprayer will not cut it.
-Either upgrade sprayer to battery powered (remove spray/mist tip) to handle volume of liquid or mix 2-4 gallons at a time in 5 gallon bucket and use 12 volt pump to hose into trench

If you elect to do it yourself, remember it doesn't have to all be done in one day - very do-able if the contract doesn't have the damage repair clause.

Drilling the concrete driveway/patio areas surrounding your slab require a hammer drill.

Termite treatment if not a mystery - Good videos on You Tube. Good for you for helping yourself.