Termite Control Protection & Treatment

My home was infested with termites back in June this year. That was the first time I realized the house had a termite problem. It started inside the kitchen cabinet, below the kitchen sink. Apparently there was a carton box containing ceramic floor tiles (from a previous house renovation works), placed underneath the sink. Water must have soaked some parts of the carton box over the years and attracted the termites.

Now we can see mud tubes along the wall, trailing the kitchen cabinet edge. The first thing we did was consult our renovation contractor who did the front porch. After some discussion, we decided to take the easiest and fastest solution, tear apart the kitchen cabinet and dispose everything paper or wood. The contractor brought along a mineral bottle filled with a liquid insecticide he got from the hardware store, which dangerously looked like ordinary milk but had a very strong suffocating smell. He later sprayed the chemical onto the cabinet floor and wall edges. Very effective and fast working. Within seconds, the termites were dead but the poisonous odour still remain in the kitchen even today.

We burned the wooden cabinet and carton box in our backyard, and sprayed more chemicals at the remaining termites trying to escape. I think there were more than ten thousand of them and few must have made their way into the ground and wall cracks. Problem solved? Hardly. We knew the termites were still around but we didn't expect them to make a comeback anytime soon.

After couple of months, again the persistent termites were detected, this time in our storage room. Another carton box on the floor was being eaten away, visibly one bottom corner was exposed. Between the boxes we could see what appears to be mud mounds which the termites use to cross from one box to another, they were making highways to whatever cellulite material available in the room. This time we knew we had to call in the specialists to solve the problem once and for all, hopefully.