Bug of the Month Feb 2011 - drywood termite preventative treatment

We would like you, the Home Owner, Architect or Builder to consider the below, a metal mesh compared to an Environment Sensitive complete structure treatment with borate.

Borate sprayed on the complete structure of a wood framed building will be there until it is eroded out by continuous running water, regardless of whether the slab cracks or not, particularly in the Texas Hill Country where the soil moves continuously.
A metal mesh installed from the second brick above the brick ledge to the edge of the slab to provide retard termite entry.

Borate : This writer has seen subterranean termites tunnel up an eight foot brick wall. There is serious doubt that this will not happen above the second bricks or rock, particularly on the corners of a building.
A metal mesh : The slab of a home in the Texas Hill Country will likely crack in a few decades if not years, this is likely to crack the steel mesh enabling termite’s entry to the building.

Borate : As a termite inspector, for forty years, I have seldom inspected a house that didn't have part of the edge of the slab covered.
A metal mesh : Erosion in this hilly Texas Hill Country often covers the slab as well as or more than the second brick, giving termites a hidden entry into the building.

Borate : Borate is not only a termitecide, but a fungicide and an insecticide. As a fungicide borate can be fogged or sprayed into buildings to kill fungus. It is particularly necessary to spray new lumber buildings at dried in to prevent the structure from being invaded by termites, (including drywood termites which until now have had no preventative treatment).
A metal mesh : The steel mesh has no benefits, as an insecticide, termite preventative or a fungicide.

We now cover the State of Texas with our New Home Termite Prevention.