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Today is RUOK day. Reach out to your friends, family, colleagues... Anyone! #ruok #bigfranky
Simple steps on how to ask if someone you know is ok.
Chemical delignification is a process that breaks down the lignin in timber. Lignin is an organic polymer that acts as a glue in timber (amongst other things), giving structural integrity to cell walls and thus holding the fibres together. It's the same material that gets attacked by fungal decay. The result is similar, the timber loses its structural integrity and slowly flakes apart.
Delignification is often found in roof timber battens as depicted in these pictures, being caused by chemicals in the air. Often it is found near heavy industry, major roads or not far from the Sea.
If there is significant damage caused by delignification then it's best to get it checked for structural integrity by a builder, seeing that roof battens are often affected by this phenomenon, caution should be exercised when walking around on roofs.
See a video showing the obvious effects of chemical defibration on roof battens.
Here is a video on the differences of a liquid chemical treated zone versus a perimeter baiting system.
The video is produced by Dow Agrosciences who produce the Sentricon baiting system, so although it is promoting baiting it does provide a good overview of the functionality of both systems.
Following the East Coast Low, heavy rainfall has battered a large portion of the East Coast of Australia. Many homes were flooded and a large portion of land was inundated with water, both moving and standing. Does this flooding and saturation affect chemical termite treatments?
A technical note from BASF regarding Termidor treatments can be found here.
Termites usually live in wood. See a colony that goes against convention and builds a house in bricks!
Read MoreYou're walking around your house and you see some new mud on the wall, how can you tell if this mud is from Termites or just some annoying wasps building their nursery on your wall?
How do you tell the difference between Termite mudding and a wasp nest?
Read MoreA video explaining the background to termite baiting systems, specifically the Sentricon system.
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