"Martin Field" writes:

Ahh, we recently found lots of termite activity around the home (luckily,
not the actual house) so of course we have the whole Sentricon system in
place.

That backs up my theory (below). There was more good food around the
house, so the hard to eat unrotted stuff in the house will be left til
last or forgotten. I had a friend who had a long standing termite
problem in the garden, but he eventually (some years) later got round
to getting the termite guys in, and again there were no termites in
his house, despite termites up to the back door.



Needless to say we have removed the food source (and possibly where many may
have been introduced) - the 700kg woodchips in our gardens. Mainly had it
to stop weeds more than anything. What a weekend that was!!!


What area around the house did you clear?



"Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish" wrote in message
...
"Wanda" writes:

A couple of people have suggested this could be whiteant
attracting. Have you had, or heard of, this? Just incase I have kept
the mulch about 10cm away from the house.

Well, when whiteants breed they can travel a long way to find a new
home, so to stop attaracting termites to your house, you really need
to remove all sources of wood from around 100km around your house.
These days, termite contractors actually place sawdust baits outside
your house to detect termites before they invade your house. You can
use your mulch for much the same purpose.

Also, these creatures are not stupid. They will colonise the easiest
to eat areas first (soft damp rotting wood) and only move on to the
less palatable sources when their numbers are up.

Even termite removal contractors don't moan about woodchip mulch
around the house, although they do tend to grumble about logs, and
wood used for garden beds and other structural purposes.

My 2 cents.

--
Take my first and surname to email me and replace the abuse.



--
Take my first and surname to email me and replace the abuse.