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To: Slagle who wrote (63627)	5/8/2005 3:49:45 AM
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Talked to another termite guy today - I told him I had ashtma and did not want to live in a place where chemicals were spread on everything to kill a termite. That I would have to check with a doctor or lung expert and see what the medical journals had to say about his fumigation solution and asthmatics. I asked him can't they beam some kind of radiation into the wall and nuke the termites? He said he didn't know about that. He said in the old days they had a device where you sent an electric ark through the wall and would electrocute them - but that the results weren't always so great - sometimes it worked great, sometimes it didn't work at all. He said recently they send heat through the wood - get it up to 130 to 150 degress and this will COOK the termites, but he said a lot of times they don't figure in all the things in a house that can melt and the plastic seals on refrigerators and plastic elsewhere in the house will melt. So he warned against using this method. He said he got a call to do the BILTMORE hotel here in our Area Slagle - about a decade ago - that place is the largest wood structure in existance I believe - but he said it was eat up with termites - they were gonna TENT the whole hotel with teams of termite people a decade back but the funding fell through. So now the BILTMORE people just spot treat the termites with the heat method when they find them - he said that helps to keep the numbers down - but it is still probably massively infested with termites. I asked him what about all these NEW CONDOS bieing bought and sold all over florida - when a person finds a termite in thier condo you cant treat the whole building - how do they get rid of the bugs - and he hung his head low and said well sometimes we can do the heat treatment - but it is expensive. I said so what about all these people buying condo's and finding termites - and he said you know its not covered by insurance - how sad.

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