I used to have a cement statue in my garden, and they bored up through the bottom of the statue, and when I went to move, I moved it and was horrified to find a colony inside. The statue was destroyed. It was so gross. 🤮
You could stil Lexel around the pipes after the concrete is cured. Lexel doesn't cure, so even if the concrete shrinks the Lexel stretches. I don't know, though, if termites eat Lexel.
Thanks for this! I got some slab work to do in the fall. House had some horrible damage from termites over the years. Now I have another tool to help keep them away.
I just did the Taurus SC treatment for my slab penetrations, around the perimeter, and then traps throughout the yard (to be re-done at accessible points every 10 years). Then the Bora-care to all the wood up to two feet. Then termite powder poured into the cavities before drywall. Then normal sealing measures. I’m content.
How about cold joints? We have that often in renovation. Not so bad where I live. When I worked i Hawaii we had all pressure treated wood. If you didn't the termites went right through it. However we sometimes recycled vertical grain old growth douglas fir framing from the sugar cane workers' housing of the 19th and early 20th century. Termites just plain avoided that.
It's real simple use a building material that termites can't eat Pumicecrete is by far the best building material on the planet Solid poured walls means no critters can live in your walls An affordable DIY building material Take care Ray
Seems like you should be able to cut some mesh to fit under the pipe clamps to DIY these. Cut a square of mesh and put a hole in the middle with a diameter smaller than the pipe diameter, then push it over the pipe and put the ring of the clamp on top of the mesh to hold the mesh in place. As long as the mesh isn’t bunched up, there shouldn’t be any gaps left that termites could crawl through. I would also glue it just to make sure it doesn’t slip out during the pour. However, if it was my house and I had the money, I would just buy this product because it’s tested, proven, convenient, and I would have the peace of mind knowing that it would be harder for the installer to screw up.
Termites need water to do their deed. At my workplace the building was made out of two by four construction with metal siding. It had poor drainage on one side meaning that when we'd have a deluge of rain the water would intrude into the outside wall. One day I discovered that we had termites chewing up the exterior wall. Since this is a concrete plant the water valve that the truck water tank fill hose was fitting to would constantly drip water as the ball valve was worn. I observed a trail of termites going from the building's exterior wall to this water leak and then back to the wall. I'm thinking that if you can mitigate any water near a building structure that would greatly help in controlling termite infestations.
$14 per pipe!!!??? Holy nut balls. It's a pipe clamp and some mesh fabric. Go buy roll of the material and a case of pipe clamps at Grainger and use a pair of scissors for crying out loud
Can someone please elaborate more on the black pipe sleeves? What product is being used? .... cant just be tape because it moves up and down..... Thanks 🤙
Might help for plumbing penetrations....maybe....wont stop from slab cracks....or exterior foundations.....borates suck for termites....just get a termidor treatment every ten years,....fyi i spent almost two decades in pest control in texas,....15 bucks a pipe for these... probably worth it...but can only be done preconstruction.....
This is why I'm just building with metal currently. That May tornado came through and exposed that the termites have been having a family fun FIELD DAY in my house for years. Now I have to do a full rebuild. Termites, rats, ants can't eat metal.
You will still have vulnerable wood being used even though you are using metal studs. Termites love soft trim pieces and wood around doors all the way up to rafters.
@@mwatkins2464 I mean metal everything. Flat slop roof as well framed with metal. The exterior is GFRC Hardie stucco panels. The front "wood" slat wall is composite. ZERO wood. I'm doing custom concrete + metal piers as well 2ft above grade.
@@mwatkins2464 I had to tell'em that the house had to be demolished when I found every piece of wood was infested, rotten with termites, in a twenty year old house. Some body planted palm trees right up to the foundations and nobody checked for termite tunnels or did sprays.. Excepting the enclosing brickwork, everywhere I poked a blade went straight through. Floor plates, studs trims, rafters and trusses. It was a blooming wonder that someone leaning on a wall didn't bring the whole structure down. Danged shame as that would now have been a half million house. Across the street I could see the same problem of palm trees right up against the footings and all had to shrug and drive away with a tear in me eye. Whole neighbourhoods are going to find the same problem. KEEP gardens away from your footings. About one metre at least.
Nope. Carpenter ants will only excavate enough area in the wood to house the colony. Termites just keep on eating and eating. big difference carpenter ants aren't nearly as destructive as termites
Couldn't you just wrap a piece of Rockwool around the pipes... if you already have a ton of it on sight. In the north I see a lot of foam wrap around pipes... dunno it termites will eat through that.
I have a better idea. Stop framing with wood. In Central America they build cheap concrete houses that go up in a week. They have exactly zero problems with the homes being eaten by termites or anything else, and believe me they have a lot of termites and other wood eating bugs. I treat soil for termites every day. It's ridiculous that we still build with bug food.
@@disqusrubbish5467 they're good for earthquakes. Posts with grooves are put in the ground and prefab concrete panels are slid down in the grooves. Then they pour the slab. It's locked together. Then they put a galvanized steel structure on for the corrugated roof. The structure locks the walls up high. Here we'd need to do an inner and outer wall and I'd like to fill it with soil in between so you end up with a cave. Another great alternative to wood frames is hempcrete. Earthships are awesome and don't use much wood unless the owner wants wood. I'd love to have one with zero exterior wood.
A basement in Houston is also called an indoor swimming pool. No frost into the ground means no piles needed, with tension cables & built in beams it can support massive houses, floats on the pad/ground
Australian here. My house built in 2005 has termimesh in the brickwork as well, which is part of a standard install here.
I believe it originally was invented in Australia
I used to have a cement statue in my garden, and they bored up through the bottom of the statue, and when I went to move, I moved it and was horrified to find a colony inside. The statue was destroyed. It was so gross. 🤮
Do the termites in Australia also want to kill you, much like all the other wildlife and insects there?
I wish I had known about these. I just poured our house slab yesterday. Day late, dollar short.
You could add it, just put it just above the slab and putting non shrink grout around it
You could stil Lexel around the pipes after the concrete is cured. Lexel doesn't cure, so even if the concrete shrinks the Lexel stretches. I don't know, though, if termites eat Lexel.
Dude, you don’t need this, there are several ways to seal the pipe stub ups through slab after the fact. These houses are ridiculously over killed.
You didn’t miss anything, super useless. You can use caulk
Nice flattop, I haven't seen one like that since Falling Down
Thanks for this! I got some slab work to do in the fall. House had some horrible damage from termites over the years. Now I have another tool to help keep them away.
If they want in their coming in
Great information Joel about entry termite from slabs. Like the idea of never having to replace calking around piping thru the concrete slab.
I just did the Taurus SC treatment for my slab penetrations, around the perimeter, and then traps throughout the yard (to be re-done at accessible points every 10 years). Then the Bora-care to all the wood up to two feet. Then termite powder poured into the cavities before drywall. Then normal sealing measures. I’m content.
Those mesh screens would work great for stucco exterior
Or between courses of ICF.
How about cold joints? We have that often in renovation. Not so bad where I live. When I worked i Hawaii we had all pressure treated wood. If you didn't the termites went right through it. However we sometimes recycled vertical grain old growth douglas fir framing from the sugar cane workers' housing of the 19th and early 20th century. Termites just plain avoided that.
As someone who is dealing with those bugs i just have hopes and dreams at this point.
Wow less than $15 for a 25 cent item. How wonderful! /s
That’s a fine stainless steel mesh combined with a stainless steel clamp. I challenge you to get tha for $0.25
It’s called Bora-Care with Mold Care. Regular Bora-Care does not include Mold care have to get the combo.
This looks like an extremely easy DIY with available materials at a big box store.
GREAT 8NFORMATION... FOR OUR NEW BUULD
Love the advice, any advice on how not to sweat in this crazy tx heat when building lol
Why not caulk around the pipes after the concrete shrinks/sets?
Thats what I was thinking, especially with slab movement over time in the south.
They could chew through caulking. One of the points in the video was that the stainless steel mesh can’t be chewed through by termites.
It's real simple use a building material that termites can't eat
Pumicecrete is by far the best building material on the planet
Solid poured walls means no critters can live in your walls
An affordable DIY building material
Take care Ray
I like Nexcem personally, but using green alternatives is always an interesting approach
@@DrMJJrpumicecrete is a mixture of pumice cement and water
Read the title as thermite protection. Figured if you’re getting hit by that you should probably just move at that point
Same
I would love to see the build show do an episode on building to a thermite standard… 🤣
Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams, never forget
What is the black tape and yellow tape on the pipes?
Seems like you should be able to cut some mesh to fit under the pipe clamps to DIY these. Cut a square of mesh and put a hole in the middle with a diameter smaller than the pipe diameter, then push it over the pipe and put the ring of the clamp on top of the mesh to hold the mesh in place. As long as the mesh isn’t bunched up, there shouldn’t be any gaps left that termites could crawl through. I would also glue it just to make sure it doesn’t slip out during the pour.
However, if it was my house and I had the money, I would just buy this product because it’s tested, proven, convenient, and I would have the peace of mind knowing that it would be harder for the installer to screw up.
What about for a down to studs remodel, what could be done in that situation?
Termites need water to do their deed. At my workplace the building was made out of two by four construction with metal siding. It had poor drainage on one side meaning that when we'd have a deluge of rain the water would intrude into the outside wall. One day I discovered that we had termites chewing up the exterior wall. Since this is a concrete plant the water valve that the truck water tank fill hose was fitting to would constantly drip water as the ball valve was worn. I observed a trail of termites going from the building's exterior wall to this water leak and then back to the wall. I'm thinking that if you can mitigate any water near a building structure that would greatly help in controlling termite infestations.
Glad to learn this extra precaution. Any thoughts, insights or experience with Hercuwall or Superfloor?
$14 per pipe!!!??? Holy nut balls. It's a pipe clamp and some mesh fabric. Go buy roll of the material and a case of pipe clamps at Grainger and use a pair of scissors for crying out loud
Can someone please elaborate more on the black pipe sleeves? What product is being used? .... cant just be tape because it moves up and down.....
Thanks 🤙
Nice. Looks like a good product.
If I have full basement and not a slab do you need these?
My basement is 8 foot ceilings and about two feet of it is above ground
Do you chemically treat under your slabs? How expansive is your soil in Austin?
What about cracks in your slab?
Might help for plumbing penetrations....maybe....wont stop from slab cracks....or exterior foundations.....borates suck for termites....just get a termidor treatment every ten years,....fyi i spent almost two decades in pest control in texas,....15 bucks a pipe for these... probably worth it...but can only be done preconstruction.....
$15 each……insane
It’s stainless steel so it doesn’t corrode from the concrete. No it’s not cheap but stainless is expensive and they’re made to last.
I have seen termites bore a hole threw 3500 psi concrete.Southern states.
If the borate lasts indefinitely...why do you need quarterly treatments?
It looks like a lot of pipes sticking up through the concrete slab. Why so many? It's just a slab. You said vent pipe, going down?
This is why I'm just building with metal currently. That May tornado came through and exposed that the termites have been having a family fun FIELD DAY in my house for years. Now I have to do a full rebuild. Termites, rats, ants can't eat metal.
You will still have vulnerable wood being used even though you are using metal studs. Termites love soft trim pieces and wood around doors all the way up to rafters.
@@mwatkins2464 I mean metal everything. Flat slop roof as well framed with metal. The exterior is GFRC Hardie stucco panels. The front "wood" slat wall is composite. ZERO wood. I'm doing custom concrete + metal piers as well 2ft above grade.
Metal clad pumicecrete walls and roof will solve all your problems
Google pumicecrete structures
Take care Ray
@@mwatkins2464 I had to tell'em that the house had to be demolished when I found every piece of wood was infested, rotten with termites, in a twenty year old house. Some body planted palm trees right up to the foundations and nobody checked for termite tunnels or did sprays.. Excepting the enclosing brickwork, everywhere I poked a blade went straight through. Floor plates, studs trims, rafters and trusses. It was a blooming wonder that someone leaning on a wall didn't bring the whole structure down. Danged shame as that would now have been a half million house. Across the street I could see the same problem of palm trees right up against the footings and all had to shrug and drive away with a tear in me eye. Whole neighbourhoods are going to find the same problem. KEEP gardens away from your footings. About one metre at least.
@@marcus_b1dang chill we don't want to endanger the entire termite species bro 😂😂😂😂
Why not seal with prosoco or huber or siga...?
that looks like window screen and nidor d is also a borate and cheaper then bora-care.
Carpenter ants are far more of a problem than termites
Bora-care works great on all wood eating insects.
Nope. Carpenter ants will only excavate enough area in the wood to house the colony. Termites just keep on eating and eating. big difference carpenter ants aren't nearly as destructive as termites
I don't get why you say "nope". BoraCare kills both. Right?
@@matthewbritton5374 then you have never had them i have had both
Not even close
this was a good look at anti termite tech
Lol, haven't seen a haircut like that Termimesh guy in 30 years.
How does the saying go.. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
He looks like Michael Douglas in Falling Down.
TWENTY Mule Team Borax not thirty! Actually 18 mules and 2 horses.
Couldn't you just wrap a piece of Rockwool around the pipes... if you already have a ton of it on sight. In the north I see a lot of foam wrap around pipes... dunno it termites will eat through that.
The mesh is not new. The application is.
20 mule team is now 30 mules with inflation. Old mules worked harder, so needed fewer of them. Mule inflation.😂
Muleflation.
So simple, you wonder why they never invented it before 👍😀
Borax/borate is a chemical but it is not an organic complex chemical.
20 mule team borax. I drive by 20 mule team road in boron ca (home of borax) regularly on the way to Vegas.
Only $15 per pipe 😅 is it patented? 😏
I have a better idea. Stop framing with wood. In Central America they build cheap concrete houses that go up in a week. They have exactly zero problems with the homes being eaten by termites or anything else, and believe me they have a lot of termites and other wood eating bugs.
I treat soil for termites every day. It's ridiculous that we still build with bug food.
Don't build out of termite food
@@raymondpeters9186 precisely
Cement production is a huge polluter. And how well do "cheap concrete houses" do in an earthquake?
@@disqusrubbish5467 they're good for earthquakes. Posts with grooves are put in the ground and prefab concrete panels are slid down in the grooves. Then they pour the slab. It's locked together. Then they put a galvanized steel structure on for the corrugated roof. The structure locks the walls up high.
Here we'd need to do an inner and outer wall and I'd like to fill it with soil in between so you end up with a cave.
Another great alternative to wood frames is hempcrete. Earthships are awesome and don't use much wood unless the owner wants wood. I'd love to have one with zero exterior wood.
@@disqusrubbish5467 I guarantee one volcano puts out more pollution than any amount of concrete production in the world.
Never understood why anyone woukd build on a slab for so many reasons is suks
Then you won’t understand South Florida.
@@seanm3226 i live in Texass its the same stupidity here
So what would you build on?
A basement in Houston is also called an indoor swimming pool.
No frost into the ground means no piles needed, with tension cables & built in beams it can support massive houses, floats on the pad/ground
Stop building homes out of paper 😅😅😅😅