Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Termites!

Great to hear that your problem will be soon solved Peter, 500 bucks for the treatment? Whoa, that's a heck of a good deal! Whenever I treated last (five years ago) I bought 4 20oz bottles for $110 each at a you do it pest control place and I see now they are down to $65 for each 20oz bottle, that's not bad at all. Whenever I very first applied the Termidor to my house the product was less than a year old and I couldn't find one exterminating company that used it, I see that most do now, so that's an excellent plus.

Back then, my immediate neighbor had termites and I tried to get him to use the Termidor but he said the applicator he contracted for about a million and a half bucks (can't remember the name, but the initials were TERMINIX) told him they never heard of Termidor, that I probably didn't know what I was talking about because their treatment would be much better and would also last longer 'cause for an additional million and a half bucks they'll bond the house and come out every so often to check and change the bait stations ... that got old and the neighbor finally agreed to let me help him treat his house with Termidor. That was almost 10 years ago and he has yet to retreat and has not had any termites since!

65 bucks a bottle


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Oooh, he even burned a little under the bug with a soft brush to make a shadow.

The living room is completely put back together and the whole process went soooo much smoother than I expected. The bug man, as the kids refer to him, drilled six holes about the diameter of a nickel evenly spaced across the length of the living room and then used a narrow tube-like injector to deliver the payload into each hole. He then patched the holes and I went to work.

Part of the reason the treatment was so inexpensive is that my house isn't too big.

Ummmmmm.... describe what you're wearing, Peter..........

Random thoughts on a Tuesday morning:

* Mark, are you picturing Peter dragging on a cigarette and doing his ironing with the phone tucked between his head and shoulder? I am.

* When the tube is narrow, it's easier to gain access to each hole.

* I bet the bug man left Peter's house exhausted ...

* ... yet very satisfied.

* Anybody else bothered by Peter's voyeuristic tendencies?

* Anybody else glad that he chronicled it for our pleasure?

Ha Nice picture. The earwigs here are certainly not as big as that one. Ours may be slight different looking too but but let me assure you from personal experience that their pincers can, on occasion, break the skin. I don't think they have the muscle power to really utilize them but I have had one hanging off my hand by one pincer that got under the skin after reaching under a palate of lumber. Watching him squirm while hanging from his embedded pincer was probably less pleasant than the minor sting it caused.