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To: shades who wrote (63637)	5/8/2005 4:25:25 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

There's also a method using liquid nitrogen - very cold, and displaces all the oxygen. Some termites die, some suffockate. May not be cheap.

To: shades who wrote (63637)	5/8/2005 10:06:13 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 74559

Shades, Sometimes the dry wood termites can infest a house and not do all that much damage. A few years ago I was trying to buy an old vacant house a few blocks from here; I was offering $17,000 but due to problems with the elderly absentee owner never could close. The house was just totally eaten up with dry wood termites, studwalls, rafters and all. Some guy finally bought it and the house survived Hurricane Charlie (Cat. 4 storm here) without any damage whatsoever. It seems that the drywood termite only eats so much of each plank and then moves on. Also they do most of their damage up high rather than down at the foundation where the load is. Most old houses here have some damage. Subterranean termites can really wreck a house. In the deep tropics there are all sorts of critters chewing away on your house, much worse than Florida. I screwed up and put up luan plywood on the ceiling and soon some kind of little borer, but thousand of them moved in and every morning your bed was full of real fine sawdust. Real itchy. Slagle