Termite Treatment Pricing

This is Tommy with triple-a exterminating company today we're out in Hillsboro North Carolina it is a really really really beautiful day out today it feels really good out here and so what we got a manufactured home we're doing videos on how different things are handled how we handle certain situations this particular house here we did a termite inspection for the buyer and we found some termites and so in that situation what we'll do usually is uh we'll give an estimate for a treatment and this time they like to do the full treatment to make sure the house has a warranty and everything is covered.

Simple Termite Treatment Pricing

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And so this is going to be a rundown on how we treat a manufactured home that has termites what we need to do what goes into it and how also I'm going to do a little bit on how we actually price these and why they cost what they cost we get a lot of questions about that so let's get to it and we'll start with exactly what kind of work we're doing here what the trenches looked like and what all we got to do to fix it take care of the termites one thing we need to do is we need to trace the outside nation walls and there's no too big of a deal too bad of a situation but basically, I'm gonna put a nice stretch along a foundation wall get dance about the footer you can tell her now we like to do the same thing on the inside foundation wall and around all the peers and then we're gonna need to apply to my side that's four gallons per ten linear feet and so basically what you want to do is kind of section this area of measure it and every 10 feet you gotta put four guns from either side and the adverse brain it will spray in this trench then we'll fill the dirt back in the trench and then spray that we put back in there and on this particular place that should be all we're gonna be doing there's no concrete port so they're just wood torches and as we don't have to drill that it is pretty much a Trisha tree on the outside when I'm just drilling on the inside where we're talking termites but this is the first part of it trying to start getting busy on this and we're going across and this curtain in the crawl space the main area where we had some termite evidence.


It can be something as as and this is hard to see this, this is a termite tunnel stain you can see part of the tunnel down there this is a tunnel came up but it's something this tiny is what we have to look for when we're doing inspections and this is a termite tunnel stain I'm up here in a crawl space and so the rules are within four feet of this we need to drill any other peers or any of the Mason area sections of the wall need to be drilled and of course, we got to get a trench inside here we've got to search around these piers so in this case we're gonna have to drill this pier we're going to drill this pier and then there's another pier back here beside me so we have to drill this section out and then trench it and then of course trench the the rest of the whole place and that's basically what we got to do in this section of the crawlspace but take care of the area where the termite evidence was found all right so yeah Warner crawlspace but this is what we got to do you got to come around all the piers.




Just do the outside but no you need to come up with each crawlspace you need to trigger these piers if you want to do a real good job you also need the trench around the foundation wall so on these double wides are these manufactured homes very often don't have a lot of concrete spillover where they did the where they did the fat with the footers and the piers and all that stuff but so we've got to kind of dig around all that and say yeah this is what it is you want to do it right you've got to come in here and do this work and believe me if you could do an effective termite treatment by just treating the outside of the house just tricking the outside of the house.


Why wouldn't we do that you know that's what we would do it would be better for us instead of us having to pay these poor fellows and of course I can do it myself and come up underneath here and do this kind of hard work but it's necessary because if all you do is have termiticide on the outside of the house you know three-four years from now that may be disturbed you know someone might put a flowerbed in there or it's also susceptible to you know more weather.


There might be some erosion that goes on so you definitely have got to with all the labeling you've got to stretch around the peers but we also like to come in and trench on the insulation wall as well as the outside finish the wall and also go underneath here and look for wood debris all of this wood debris we got to get out from underneath this house it's not too difficult or - and this is quite a bit of work we're gonna have to drill these piers in the middle of course we're gonna do the thinness of this trenching and we'll come back and see how the drilling is done get on the same.


Okay so up underneath here you got to look at this big giant a heavy hammer drill, I'll put a neat the house this is what you got to do.  And that's what it takes it's um go hallo lock here you gotta get in there you gotta get chemical inside that void now you might think it's fine because it's sitting on a footer but there are very often extraction the footers they can come right at the middle of those piers and they are within 116 laps yep and they're within 4 feet of the termite evidence so that's what the label requires it's what we got to do and then of course we got to get in here we actually got to spray the chemical each one of these Spears these piers take about a gallon and one up here like this takes about a gallon and a half or so here like that takes about two and a half gallons.


You gotta spray those trenches nice and full and the trenches are through every single pier and while you ever have seen a foundation wall all the way through this the place there's a whole lot of chemical that we've got to put here to protect the strength of termites when they stood to fifteen years even when your trenches are a waste of the wall you always go straight against if I mention wall as well just because it's clay right here a little ways away from that don't mean you don't have a Patek violet the time making wall saturated as well and this is how we're injecting a chemical into the masonry bits by the blocks they would do the same thing in the concrete floor the garage whenever you drill that gotta get chemical inside there too yeah we get it quite a bit you know we'll do what estimate on the termite termite treatment it's a little price it is I mean it in constantly it's very expensive to take care of these blood but there's a lot of work that goes into this I've just come up at the end of this job Ryan's been here pretty much all morning so a job like this on big and got the treasure to go through all the drilling you've got great oh it's quite a bit of bone to do and we're using you know fipronil is that the particular chemical reason today infuse and it's got fipronil in it along with the amount of culprit.


So you know you can get decent control by just doing the outside but you know as professionals we've seen too many situations where someone might change the soil on the outside maybe someone comes to put some foundation trailer on the outside and removes all your treated soil and so it is just you will get a better long-term protection if you trace the inside foundation wall as well as the outside Kadesh and Shur trial appears and basically the way that the state of north carolina tells us to do it is what we do we don't do waivers unless there's a reason to waiver something I think their recommendations by the states are good recommendations i him that makes sense and also the labeling calls for even the perimeter post type treatments you'd still, need to get in there and drill the you need to get around the beers there's a lot of skipping that stuff and to get this to do this right it's a lot of work it's a lot more than what people think so this is what really goes into [Applause] so another thing to consider when talking about these turbine treatments is equipment that you need to really do it right so you know trenching around the outside now you could do that with a trench shovel there's a simple thing you can use for that drilling through the do the block a hammer drill key there a lot of hammer drills, I can do that we use heavy duty ones as we do them all day long we do a bunch of them we're fully prepared to come out and do these jobs now our criminal in the back of the truck here.


We got 150-gallon tank and that's probably one of the most valuable things that we have with the motor hooked up to it the pump the chemical through the hose into the crawlspace that's one of the harder parts of the treatment is first mixing the right amount of chemical and then delivering it to where you needed to go so that's all things to consider and you really need the right equipment if you're trying to do this with anything else other than professional equipment it's going to be a million times harder and it's not gonna you're not gonna do is get up a job you just not we can put this chemical anywhere we want to on this property somewhat easily and a good pressure we can rot it into the ground and it's a much better way of doing this is a pretty good example here this is a 30-foot wall exactly so four gallons pretend linear feet means we need to put 12 gallons alongside this wall and we know our sprayer will do a gallon in about 11 seconds so about 44 seconds for four gallons and 132 seconds or so for the 12 gallons we're gonna need and as we do it now, of course, that takes away the time right there cuz you stopping that but that's kind of as you're doing it, you're counting and so every 11 seconds know you're putting out you're putting out a gallon but basically what you're doing you got to put you got to put the part of the chemical in the trench and then fill the dirt back over the top and didn't treat the top of that dirt you want to make sure there's there are treated soil a barrier of treated soil and I wouldn't even call it a barrier because this is non-repellent but you want to make sure you've got a good row of treated soil above that footer right beside to put it above the footer.


And so that's kind of the purpose so just this wall right here this one little wall when the crawlspace is as we're gonna be putting four gallons just in this part so we also got to do that on the I'm gonna be putting 12 gallon just on this part and we also got to do that on the inside of the foundational wall so really this wall gets 24 gallons altogether and one of the main reasons you want to spray about half of it and then kick it in and fill it out and spray the rest of it is you want to make sure that soil that you're putting back on top is also treated if you just sprayed the trench let it dry and then put the dirt on top of that just fill in the trenches you would create a bridge that Termidor I mean that termites could possibly miss your treatment so that's basically what we do because it's all the way around the house on the outside and the inside of the crawlspace so a lot of work a lot of product needs to be delivered it's got to be delivered properly you can't just you can't just guess I mean it's never it's never down to the exact gallon but as professionals we've got to get it close to gut and deliver the right amount of product and another thing too is a lot of people ignore this.


When I see the videos on YouTube to do-it-yourself type stuff and so now we're lucky on this one cuz it's kind of a shallow footer or right at the footer so it's pretty easy but a lot of houses that footer might be you know three or four foot down so the label is telling you you've got to go four guys four till under your feet per foot of depth and a lot of people don't don't realize that so if your footer is three three feet below the ground that you're treating you're gonna have to take your chemical in times of by three so it's it's it's a lot more it's a lot more to it than people think and you also got to make sure you're you're dressed properly for deer to have gloves long sleeves long pants and you know you got to make sure you're looking at the personal protective equipment if you're supposed to have most of them on the sides now are not extremely harsh like they were when I was a kid things like for Dean.


You know that's the heat smell it for two years if they applied it this stuff here is actually much more mild but it's also very dangerous to non-target insects one of the biggest points I want to make when we're applying this stuff is a lot of people will have bushes around their house and there's a big temptation just to kind of spray this stuff willy-nilly all over it especially during the springtime when you might have a bunch of bees flying around your bushes bees are very very important for us we've got to do what we can to protect bees and this particular stuff and a lot of the products are used for termites today are very very toxic to Hamunaptra that's the family that bees belong to and so ants and bees this stuff works great on ants but unfortunately it also works incredibly well on bees so if you're spraying the outside of your house try to if possible not apply this during the springtime when the bees are pollinating if they are pollinating near bushes try to not put this anywhere near those bushes do not spray this on bushes do not spray this anywhere we're pollinating bees can be this can be devastated stuff just one or two beats come into contact with this stuff could completely wipe out a hive well you've got to be very careful not to allow this effect bees as you're implying that this stuff is very very dangerous.


Okay so figuring out what we got a charge for a house like this how the way termite pricing is done is of course there are considerations put in like how low is the house out what kind of soil is it easy to dig is it hard to do what's in the crawl space how would all do we have to drill what all the works involved now manufactured home especially manufactured home with like a wood front porch like that is actually one of the easier treatments cuz it's mostly trishing and treating and we might we just have the drill with the termite evidence is so that's actually a easier more cut-and-dry treatment to kind of price so the main thing that we're looking at is linear footage and they figured that out you got to measure the walls are the wall on the side is at the front wall and so this is a 30 by 76 now with linear footage what you have to figure out though you have to figure out the outside and also the inside because we're gonna be treating the outside foundation wall and the inside financial law, so we count all that so you go 30 both sides you've got 30 times for that equals 120 that'll give you this linear footage of the sides you got seventy six times four that's the outside the inside the outside the inside on both walls seventy six times four gives us three hundred four so altogether we've got four hundred twenty-four linear foot that's the walls to finish the walls.



Now I usually, I'll usually round that up to 430 and then you would go we're doing 10 four gallons per 10 linear feet so you'd break that down into ten so that'll be forty-three times four give you a hundred seventy-two gallons is what you're gonna be using for the walls of the crawlspace then you also need to consider the piers now this particular house had about a 38 piers and you want to go about 1.5 gallons for each one of these periods the bigger peers that have a four-block base our to block base and I say you're usually going to use about 1.5 gallon for each one of those peers, they'll give you 57 gallons and now also on the where the wood decks are where the wood decks make contact with the wood makes conflict in the ground you want to spray a little bit around there we're going to estimate about 12 gallons we'll use on the outside of this deck the same thing with the back stairs about 4 gallons over there not much but you want to spray those areas even though it's treated wood you got lattice there you got you to know some wood context you want to put some chemical down there so with this job you'd have the two and two hundred twenty-nine gallons plus the 16 gallons for the porches altogether you're gonna have about two hundred forty-five gallons finish gallons of the product that you're gonna deliver to this house now we treated that 0.06 seven percent and the product we're using for this is fuse now we also use terminal from time to time but the fuse is a very good alternative it's.


It's cheaper but it also uses the same active ingredients Termidor which is fipronil and it combines it with the active ingredient of the premise which is a mighty cooperate those are two great products this product combines them we can deliver that a little bit cheaper price when we're involved the real estate transactions you really got to kind of keep the price down to an acceptable the level you know the price of a terminal or when taking the price a little bit too high and a lot of people are not going to pay that I would rather do a full treatment with a product like a fuse then to only be able to do a spot the shipment was on my terminal so that's why we go with this on a lot of these real estate transactions to make sure we can get the job so in this job here you're gonna need we're gonna need the twenty-seven point five ounce bottles each twenty-seven point five ounce bottle will make a hundred gallons of the product so you're going to need two and a half of those bottles to deliver the amount of product we're going to need here and so our price to treat this house today ended up being around seven hundred bucks now I know there's a lot of do-it-yourselfers out there but you know if you really think about it this is a this is about four and a half five hours of work for two men and two and a half bottles of the fuse and that's two and a half bottles of the 27.5 but also it's a matter of getting the chemical where it actually needs to be it's a matter of getting the two hundred forty-five gallons everywhere it's got to go so if you want to try to mix up this stuff in a bucket and drag it up underneath one of these places and actually, you know to deliver it that way and that's just gonna be that's gonna be a heck of a lot of work, so that's the thing to consider, is the actual equipment to do it right you know and how much is your time worth you know us.



We're professionals we got the equipment we're ready to go we can deliver it and you know I I think $700 to treat a house this size and deliver the kind of product we're delivering the kind of quality we're delivering is very very reasonable and I think it would be very very hard for someone who's not a professional does not have this equipment to be able to deliver the same amount of value and be able to handle it and it'd be worth and it'd not be worth to just pay someone that amount of money to do it plus we give a warranty on this the house we're covered by insurance and us will cover this house with a warranty for a year it can be renewed if the people want to renew it and we cover future damage and all that so it's a to me it's an excellent value and honestly no matter where you're at in the country I think if you really shop around and you and  you know try to find companies who actually are local companies you might want to not want to go with a big national company you might want to go with a local company and you'll find that you'll get better deals and and I think I think it's really I think it's really worth it to go ahead and just just pay professional do it now there's nothing wrong with shopping around there are companies that will come out here and tell you that it's going to cost you know three thousand dollars to treat the house now if you got someone giving you a price like that shop around and we'll prodded the best tip I could ever give anybody about trying to find the best deal you can find on a treatment like this is to call your local realtor there's a your real estate agent is an incredible tool that you have in your community call a local realtor and get a recommendation from them and then call that company and tell them that the realtor sent you and I guarantee you you will get the best possible price you can get if you go about it that way but I would recommend that now if you want to try to go about it yourself though if you have any questions you can always comment on one of our videos you can contact us and Triple A exterminating at gmail.com you can email we'll be glad to answer any kind of question Jeff but but it's definitely don't take it lightly and don't think that you can just spray a little bit on the outside and control termites if you want to do it you want to do it right.