I have drywood termites in a three unit apartment building.
Termites is fairly common in Florida but when you have a tenant occupied building it becomes impossible to schedule a tenting. There is simply no mutually convenient time.
I have heard of non-tenting treatment, but I assume this is for when you have a small localized infestation?
In my case, let's say I have apartment A, B and C.
Apartment A is a two bedroom unit, and have two closets back to back. The shelves in those closets have been infested. Bottom of the shelves have "hollowed" sections I can press in with my finger and termite dust spills out. The infestation is active because it will drop these coffee ground piles every few days from the bottom of these shelves. This is happening in both closets and they being back to back seems to suggest the actual infestation may have started from the common wall?
Then there is apartment B in the kitchen along the bottom of the baseboard I see some of these droppings too, and this wall is no where NEAR those closets.
I am thinking it is unlikely to have two local infestations, this must be a wide spread issue and those are the only two spots where I can see them.
There is no attic access as this is a flat roof.
Is tenting the only way?
Termites is fairly common in Florida but when you have a tenant occupied building it becomes impossible to schedule a tenting. There is simply no mutually convenient time.
I have heard of non-tenting treatment, but I assume this is for when you have a small localized infestation?
In my case, let's say I have apartment A, B and C.
Apartment A is a two bedroom unit, and have two closets back to back. The shelves in those closets have been infested. Bottom of the shelves have "hollowed" sections I can press in with my finger and termite dust spills out. The infestation is active because it will drop these coffee ground piles every few days from the bottom of these shelves. This is happening in both closets and they being back to back seems to suggest the actual infestation may have started from the common wall?
Then there is apartment B in the kitchen along the bottom of the baseboard I see some of these droppings too, and this wall is no where NEAR those closets.
I am thinking it is unlikely to have two local infestations, this must be a wide spread issue and those are the only two spots where I can see them.
There is no attic access as this is a flat roof.
Is tenting the only way?
