American Scientific Wood Treatment System

The American Scientific Wood Treatment System is designed to give the safest most effective and most convenient service available for the treatment for wood destroying organisms. The object is to get borate products into the areas where insects live and breed and to eliminate any existing infestation while providing a residual to prevent future infestation. The challenge is that unlike the gaseous materials used in fumigation, the borates need to be applied directly to the areas to be protected. This application requires a better understanding of the habits of the insect as well as construction techniques that would hinder treatment.

The American Scientific Wood Treatment System is a tool for the alternative termite treatment with non-repellant, non-contact kill product that has mineral mammalian toxicity (borate). It is all done with minimal cosmetic damage to the structure by one technician. This process takes advantage of the drywood termite's habits and needs.

We can them drywood termites, but this does not mean they do not need moisture. Most buildings barely have adequate moisture for the termites. By adding about 30 gallons of solution to an average home, we spike the humidity and temperature in the structure, which helps speed up the borate absorption into the wood. This also stimulates the termites into becoming active and to come to the surface and interact with the freshly applied material.

For termites to live they need shelter, moisture, food, and "nutritional elements" (like Vitamins for termites.) 1) We cannot eliminate their shelter (your home). 2) We cannot permanently and completely eliminate the moisture. 3) But, the termites are living inside their food, therefore, we can treat the wood to make it toxic to their protozoa and them. 4) Also, borates do a great job of controlling mold. Let me explain it, it is believed that the reason termites tunnel heavily just below the surface of the wood is to create a termites' version of a "green house' for growing micro-flora (mold). This mold uses the thermo energy that comes through the wood surface to break down the wood into "nutritional elements" (protein and starches). Borates are a great and permanent fungicide. Preventing the mold will prevent the termites from being healthy.

Borate is not metabolized (not broken down) by the termite when eaten. The habit of mopholesic feeding by the termites assures that the borate will be distributed throughout the colony. Therefore, a contact kill is not needed.

How much treatment is enough to a typical size house? We interpret the label to recommend about 20 gallons of solution in the attic and 10 gallons in the walls for an average home. With this volume of material one can be assured of a "moisture spike." Without the "moisture spike" the termites will not quickly interact with the material. The more wood area that is treated, the more exposure the colonies have to the product.

(We always assume there are more than one colony). If one agrees with this, one would see that "spot treatment" may kill the localized termites with a contact kill, but "whole house" treatments get all the termites, even if there are multiple colonies, permanently!

Bu using the termite's habits of continuously foraging, social nature, combined with giving them toxic moisture, making their food toxic, and killing off their mold farms we can control them. There are fast but temporary treatments like gas, heat, microwave, etc. (Yes, they have their place.) Or there is a slower but permanent treatment that is non-repellant, with low mammalian toxicity, minimal cosmetic damage, and one technician can do the whole treatment with the right equipment like the American Scientific Wood Treatment System and borates or non-repellant termiticides.

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