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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
The proper treatment involves drilling holes every 16 inches around your entire house and injecting a poison chemical into the soil. If they will do that for $299, that is a very cheap price. Anything else would be a waste of money.
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I think people are confusing:
a) the annual inspection for annual warranty (like insurance if termite damage actually occurs within the coming year); with
b) the subterranean, under-slab treatment that is done when all the homes are built here, and that subterranean lasts 8-9 years and then needs retreatment to be good for another 8+ years. That's more expensive, but it lasts a long time ($500+ ? I can't remember, but it's not $299.)
Also, the subterranean treatment isn't a typical pesticide. According to the Massey person we spoke with, it's actually a substance that the termites pick up and carry back home when they go out from under the slab to forage for food to bring back. The substance screws up their DNA, he told me, so they don't reproduce or so they croak before they get old enough to reproduce (something like that).
They drilled small holes in the courtyard concrete walkway near foundation, to inject under the slab. The termites go in and out thru that barrier and pick up the altering substance to carry back to the relatives. Massey covered the holes so well with concrete and the colored paint/putty that they are undetectable.
It's worth it to do the annual warranty with inspection ($100+/year) , AND to do the 8-9 year under-slab treatment.