yes, definitely termites, saw them at work, and of course ofterwards, that brown muck. they are amazing. TO PREVENT THEM, SIMPLY DON'T USE ANY WOOD IN HOUSE. they have attacked almost every piece of wood. i have replace, rear door, complete front door w/accompaning windows, the west side of house window, and they are working on bedroom doors and east side of wood installments, although i have slowed their progess w/pesticide. the wood trim around top of house, is held together only by paint, the rest looks like a termite highway system. i even came home from vacation one time and found a bag of brown muck uder kitchen counter and took a second to realize it WAS a large package of tissue paper, 12 rolls, mostly gone they bypass some things and munch on others. don't think height will protect you. they went for the roof trim first, which is 3 meters off the ground and was noticed after house painted, they leave a noticable chemical trail up the exterior wall. as i ask what it was, told termites, and once again amazing at construction practices here. why would you build with any wood if a problem. i don't buy anything wood anymore, well, nothing for construction, or anything expensive.

LA, may I add that using the spray cans of termite spray available from local stores, is simply not enough. I used them on my door frame, the termites just move away from that immediate location to somewhere else.

They have to be dealt with on a commercial basis by a specialist company. They saturate spray the ground area where the termites are coming from, as well as apply a pesticide powder around affected wooden door farmes etc. Essentially they have to be knocked out at ground level which is where their nests/bases are and where they travel to and from all the time.

If the company cannot access under your floor, or there is no previously installed network of pipes, they will drill holes through the floor at intervals and then insert a spray nozzle through that.

Don't know about Thai termites but in Hawaii they didn't like teak or mahogany, they would devour the holly in the teak and holly sole and the whatever in the center of the mahogany plywood.

is simply not enough.

that's why i said, slowed them down, thwy'll be back. i hope they pace themselves, so i can replace the rest at slow intervals.

arjay wrote:Fussychunk, sorry to appear to ignore your post. Thought I'd leave that to an appropriate expert.

[Though from my very limited experience, in the houses I've seen they seem to use suspended ceilings, suspended from the metal roof trusses/girders etc, by wires, so there isn't anywhere to walk up there. But as I say that's only my very limited experience from my and a couple of other houses I've looked in.]

same here. has nothing to do with the roof. paid somewhere between 200 to 300 baht per sq meter, but used green board, the regular stuff should be cheaper.

Dakoda wrote:Got my roll of tape today. Cost 245 baht. GF (wife ?) of contractor came, said really bad work. Will have someone come to fix ! So for the fourth time, (counts the install, so really the third) they are coming to fix, wonder if they will use fiberglass tape (no chance in using mine). If not, its not a fix and they can leave.

Well, since they are a No-Show; think it was a line of BS, so that they didn't need to give me a roll of 245 baht tape. Just as well, can you imagine the mess someone would have to clean, after they tried to fix for the third time Hope they are not looking for referral's