Termite treatment is actually a good LONG TERM investment and recommend you should do it, after all the cost compared to the house itself is very small indeed. I didnt do for my house in the beginning and regretted it last two months ago. Colony of termites decided to move into my place. Had to clear out 50% of the stuff and do spraying. Hard time, wish i'd spend that RM600 in the beginning. Total damage was about RM5k...

Last words...get it done now before later...you never know.

You can try my classmate, he's into termite treatment and pest control. Kerry Kua at 016 252 0344. Cheers.

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yes, u can buy chlorpyrifos or cypermathrin from any hardware shops and spray by yourself or contractor. after spray,u can coat the roof truss with with the common wood stain ( kind of paint), for door etc u can either piant wiht wood stain if u want to see the wood grain or normal paint (eg alkyd, polyester etc) to cover the toxic chemicals. (non translucent)
roof - make sure that u spray on both end /cut and nail spot coz termite can go in from here.

those treated wood is usually in greenish color but sometime sawmills cheat consumers with pigments.
common chemicals for wood use in outdoor is CCA (copper chrome arsenic) - green in color
some of them cheating by jsut soak with CCA to show it is green color. it shud be pressure reated , force the chemicals to go inside the wood cells. the longer time , the higher the pressure hte better.
anyway, they are too many cheating outside. in fact u dun have to spray if it is proper treated. spray is short term. pressure treat is longterm and wood can last more than 100 years. the wood primeter is deeply cover with chemicals, nailing have no affect.

I heard that u can spray chemical within your unit during the construction, right before they put up the bricks. Can that be done?

why do you need to run a set of pipes?

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Added on March 27, 2011, 1:11 amWhat is done for rm600?


This post has been edited by jojozep: Mar 27 2011, 01:11 AM

Today i learn bout another way to treat termite from my boss, was not sure the name of the treatment..


we have

1) the usual spray around treatment
2) the one that make a lots of hole by injecting the chemical inside the land
3) baiting system (for active termite)

today i heard that my boss actually ask the contracter to do a piping for termite chemical method, before they lay down the new tile, they actual make a long pipe system from porch area to your middle of your living hall, the pipe will be plant underground ur tile, slightly more below and the move to all corner and have different spliting, what you need to do is on yearly basic go to the pipe mouth at porch area and pour in 1 can of the chemica and it's done.. the pipe thing cox less then 1k

i wonder if really got such thing ???

got, i did mine when reno.....

Wow really got such thing, how much u do ? cox u see i just brought 1 sub sale at BMC and that place is famous for termite, i got upper floor on parque wood and if change to tile cost a lot, hence thought of just maintain the parque by shellec and polish with only Rm1.5k so the method call what ? does it cover the whole house ? how much the chemical per botol or tin or what ever amount needed per time for treatment ?

where is your house by the way ?

erm... what are the option for those house that do not do renovation?

jst to a hole at the back of the house?

constantly pouring chemical onto where you live....how does that sounds like????

Interesting..which company doing this? and cost like?
Also, you only done on area need relay tiles or you actually do the who GF tiles replacing? How about if pnly partial example: Kitches / Car Pourche etc?


This post has been edited by Jo_da48: Apr 6 2011, 09:34 PM

that is to punch a small hole at the corner of your house and surounding it.. it will punch and inject the chemical through ur existing tile after that close up with cement so ur tile wont look so nice d...


hmm i also dunno but u see there is no FOREVER termite treatment in the world.. even if we chose the above method i mention to areankim, 3 years later u still ask ppl come and inject it again and ur tile look ugly le... if use baiting system u still put chemical and wait those termite carry it back to their king and queen and the colony might die but later come new gang u still put again same chemical thingy inside the house

The termites can sense the chemicals? and avoid it?

I done baiting DIY before and it works,killed all the termites...only thing is that I found out a bit late..
now I have a LED touchlight white light to do my own inspection...

This post has been edited by jojozep: Apr 6 2011, 10:02 PM

NLC termguard, cost a bomb. i have a bungalow project use their system.

the piping in my house reno was done by my indon, in fact any plumber also can do it, drill holes surrounding the house, insert perforated pvc piping with end cap, wrap with geo-textile and connect to each other from front to back.



i replace tiles for the whole house


the conceal piping buried under the floor tiles actually serve the same function as u mention above, only difference is my floor tiles not need to drill in future, and i won't have those chemical smell inside the house when i recharge it every 2 years.

dunno hahahaha the baiting only kill 1 gang, dunno got 2nd or 3rd gang or not many puak lol this samseng termite

yeah this is the exact thing i wanna do since i gonna change the whole floor tile in my house, might as well do this 1st.. how much does it cost actually ? i mean ur indo guy la hahaha ?

the material cost +-400, labour +-500, chemical 200

geo-textile? How and where could this get from?

hardware shop lar

hmm around 1.1k + -, better then me hacking the whole upper floor parque wood maybe u can intorduce me ur indo for it ? hahaha


and apa itu geo-textile ? i thought we are discussing termite treatment over here ? what is it gonna do with geotextile ?

u can google it mar.......the perforated pvc pipe wrap with geo-textile to avoid those small holes clog up by soil.




every 3 ft one pipe punch in to soil about 2ft depth. for existing slab, my worker drill the floor concrete with 32mm drill pit



This post has been edited by skng03: Apr 7 2011, 09:34 PM