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Why Choose All Guard Pest Control To Protect Your Home?

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Termites cause more damage than fire, storm & tempest, earthquakes and floods every year. As more than one in three homes in Australia get infested by termite, it makes sense to choose a reliable termite protection system that is applied by an accredited, reliable and professional termite protection firm. Our residual termite treatments are Australian Standard compliant, and are extremely thorough.

It all starts with an inspection of the home as per Australian Standard 4349.3 by a properly qualified technician to see what the extent of termite activity and damage is. During the inspection, the design and construction of the property can be assessed, and a termite protection plan for the individual property can be prepared.

We will always advise you after we have completed our inspection on what action to take on "high risk areas" within your property, or even how to protect your home from high risk areas that are within the boundaries of your neighbour's property. Termites don't discriminate and don't have any respect for fencing or boundaries.

Concrete areas can be drilled, but Australian Standard and label compliant volumes must be achieved to stand any chance of treatment success. With drilled areas, the labelled volumes are 10 litres of termiticide for each metre drilled. Drill spacings must be no more than 300mm apart. We prefer to use non-repellent Termidor for concrete areas treated by a drilling and injection technique.

Rates of application
Registered chemicals shall be diluted to the required label concentration and then applied to the soil or fill at the prescribed label rates of 5 L/m² for a horizontal barrier, and at 100L/m² for a vertical barrier. To compensate for impervious soils such as clay where application of these rates would cause run-off, concentrations greater than those prescribed may be used, with correspondingly lower rates of application, e.g. the concentration of chemical may be doubled and the volume applied halved.

What happens when the soil isn't properly prepared?
This can lead to breaches of the chemical barrier. Termites may enter your property through gaps in the protected zone and not be affected . Care must be taken to prepare the soil with consideration of the factors below;

Soil Preparation
To allow the required distribution of the applied chemical, and to permit percolation into the soil to a sufficient depth to deter termites from breaching the barrier, the soil shall be prepared as follows:
(a) Removal of contaminants, all timber off-cuts, building debris, removable formwork and other waste materials shall be removed from the area to be treated.
(b) Clay soils, sloping sites On clay soils, where penetration is likely to be slow, and on sloping sites where run-off of the chemical mixture is likely to occur, the surface of the soil shall be scarified along the contours to form furrows to a depth of not less then 50mm to 80 mm or a 50 mm minimum layer of sand shall be used to retain the applied chemical.

NOTE: all clumps of clay should be broken up or removed from the area., some sand should be introduced and mixed with an organic soil mix so that Termidor crystals may be bonded to the soil. Sometimes it may be best to cut concrete and replace clay soils with organic soil mixtures rather than drill concrete and inject termiticide into heavy clay soils.

Horizontal barriers
(a) be a minimum of 150mm wide to a minimum depth of 50mm unless otherwise specified on the registered label;
(b) abut the substance walls on both sides;
(c) surround all other connections between the building and the soil;
(d) cover all areas of sub floor soil where there is inadequate access (see Clause 2.5.3 of Australian Standard For Termite Protection) or where there is less than 400mm clearance:
(e) and be continuous beneath a concrete slab-on-ground or on fill.

Following these recommendations may save your home from becoming a statistic!

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