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  • Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
  • Today Matt meets with Joel from Termimesh to talk about a chemical-free, long-lasting solution to termite infestations that's perfect for southern builders that Matt used for two decades.
    They delve into the limitations of traditional chemical treatments, which have a limited lifespan and environmental concerns. Instead, they showcase a sustainable solution: Termimesh, a fine stainless steel mesh developed in Australia that creates a physical barrier termites can't penetrate. This product is affordable, easy to install, and offers lifetime protection.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 98

  • @KaldekBoch
    @KaldekBoch Місяць тому +17

    Australian here. My house built in 2005 has termimesh in the brickwork as well, which is part of a standard install here.

    • @buildshow
      @buildshow  Місяць тому

      I believe it originally was invented in Australia

    • @PipeDreamerJacques
      @PipeDreamerJacques Місяць тому

      I used to have a cement statue in my garden, and they bored up through the bottom of the statue, and when I went to move, I moved it and was horrified to find a colony inside. The statue was destroyed. It was so gross. 🤮

    • @brassmule
      @brassmule Місяць тому

      Do the termites in Australia also want to kill you, much like all the other wildlife and insects there?

  • @donz327
    @donz327 Місяць тому +29

    I wish I had known about these. I just poured our house slab yesterday. Day late, dollar short.

    • @chptech
      @chptech Місяць тому +9

      You could add it, just put it just above the slab and putting non shrink grout around it

    • @OperationDarkside
      @OperationDarkside Місяць тому

      You could stil Lexel around the pipes after the concrete is cured. Lexel doesn't cure, so even if the concrete shrinks the Lexel stretches. I don't know, though, if termites eat Lexel.

    • @winterfar2814
      @winterfar2814 Місяць тому +1

      Dude, you don’t need this, there are several ways to seal the pipe stub ups through slab after the fact. These houses are ridiculously over killed.

    • @vapeurdepisse
      @vapeurdepisse Місяць тому

      You didn’t miss anything, super useless. You can use caulk

  • @RetroBerner
    @RetroBerner Місяць тому +15

    Nice flattop, I haven't seen one like that since Falling Down

  • @jimyeats
    @jimyeats Місяць тому +4

    I just did the Taurus SC treatment for my slab penetrations, around the perimeter, and then traps throughout the yard (to be re-done at accessible points every 10 years). Then the Bora-care to all the wood up to two feet. Then termite powder poured into the cavities before drywall. Then normal sealing measures. I’m content.

  • @JoshuaPanfile
    @JoshuaPanfile Місяць тому +2

    Thanks for this! I got some slab work to do in the fall. House had some horrible damage from termites over the years. Now I have another tool to help keep them away.

  • @GLHerzberg
    @GLHerzberg Місяць тому +3

    Wow less than $15 for a 25 cent item. How wonderful! /s

    • @ptester1
      @ptester1 Місяць тому +1

      That’s a fine stainless steel mesh combined with a stainless steel clamp. I challenge you to get tha for $0.25

  • @billycroan2336
    @billycroan2336 Місяць тому +4

    Why not caulk around the pipes after the concrete shrinks/sets?

    • @mefferso04
      @mefferso04 16 днів тому

      Thats what I was thinking, especially with slab movement over time in the south.

  • @jerrymoree8269
    @jerrymoree8269 Місяць тому

    Great information Joel about entry termite from slabs. Like the idea of never having to replace calking around piping thru the concrete slab.

  • @danielwatson5595
    @danielwatson5595 Місяць тому +23

    Read the title as thermite protection. Figured if you’re getting hit by that you should probably just move at that point

    • @nicholasboccio
      @nicholasboccio Місяць тому

      Same

    • @Isaacmantx
      @Isaacmantx Місяць тому

      I would love to see the build show do an episode on building to a thermite standard… 🤣

    • @leonscott543
      @leonscott543 Місяць тому

      Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams, never forget

  • @brokenwrench404
    @brokenwrench404 Місяць тому +7

    Those mesh screens would work great for stucco exterior

    • @ToddBizCoach
      @ToddBizCoach Місяць тому +1

      Or between courses of ICF.

  • @pcatful
    @pcatful Місяць тому +3

    How about cold joints? We have that often in renovation. Not so bad where I live. When I worked i Hawaii we had all pressure treated wood. If you didn't the termites went right through it. However we sometimes recycled vertical grain old growth douglas fir framing from the sugar cane workers' housing of the 19th and early 20th century. Termites just plain avoided that.

  • @zachcoppinger872
    @zachcoppinger872 Місяць тому +2

    What is the black tape and yellow tape on the pipes?

  • @winterfar2814
    @winterfar2814 Місяць тому +1

    It’s called Bora-Care with Mold Care. Regular Bora-Care does not include Mold care have to get the combo.

  • @raymondpeters9186
    @raymondpeters9186 Місяць тому +4

    It's real simple use a building material that termites can't eat
    Pumicecrete is by far the best building material on the planet
    Solid poured walls means no critters can live in your walls
    An affordable DIY building material
    Take care Ray

    • @DrMJJr
      @DrMJJr Місяць тому

      I like Nexcem personally, but using green alternatives is always an interesting approach

    • @raymondpeters9186
      @raymondpeters9186 Місяць тому

      ​@@DrMJJrpumicecrete is a mixture of pumice cement and water

  • @joshua3084
    @joshua3084 Місяць тому

    GREAT 8NFORMATION... FOR OUR NEW BUULD

  • @thewanderer4271
    @thewanderer4271 Місяць тому +2

    Love the advice, any advice on how not to sweat in this crazy tx heat when building lol

  • @OneManOnFire
    @OneManOnFire Місяць тому +1

    As someone who is dealing with those bugs i just have hopes and dreams at this point.

  • @billycroan2336
    @billycroan2336 Місяць тому +2

    $14 per pipe!!!??? Holy nut balls. It's a pipe clamp and some mesh fabric. Go buy roll of the material and a case of pipe clamps at Grainger and use a pair of scissors for crying out loud

  • @BadKid-bv9pd
    @BadKid-bv9pd Місяць тому +1

    What about for a down to studs remodel, what could be done in that situation?

  • @johntuminello5206
    @johntuminello5206 Місяць тому

    I have seen termites bore a hole threw 3500 psi concrete.Southern states.

  • @charlietuna1971
    @charlietuna1971 Місяць тому

    This looks like an extremely easy DIY with available materials at a big box store.

  • @LilYeshua
    @LilYeshua Місяць тому

    Termites need water to do their deed. At my workplace the building was made out of two by four construction with metal siding. It had poor drainage on one side meaning that when we'd have a deluge of rain the water would intrude into the outside wall. One day I discovered that we had termites chewing up the exterior wall. Since this is a concrete plant the water valve that the truck water tank fill hose was fitting to would constantly drip water as the ball valve was worn. I observed a trail of termites going from the building's exterior wall to this water leak and then back to the wall. I'm thinking that if you can mitigate any water near a building structure that would greatly help in controlling termite infestations.

  • @jayworley1583
    @jayworley1583 Місяць тому +1

    What about cracks in your slab?

  • @Solidbuilthomes
    @Solidbuilthomes 17 днів тому

    Can someone please elaborate more on the black pipe sleeves? What product is being used? .... cant just be tape because it moves up and down.....
    Thanks 🤙

  • @user-ct2sx1ft7z
    @user-ct2sx1ft7z 18 днів тому

    Why not seal with prosoco or huber or siga...?

  • @marcus_b1
    @marcus_b1 Місяць тому +5

    This is why I'm just building with metal currently. That May tornado came through and exposed that the termites have been having a family fun FIELD DAY in my house for years. Now I have to do a full rebuild. Termites, rats, ants can't eat metal.

    • @mwatkins2464
      @mwatkins2464 Місяць тому +2

      You will still have vulnerable wood being used even though you are using metal studs. Termites love soft trim pieces and wood around doors all the way up to rafters.

    • @marcus_b1
      @marcus_b1 Місяць тому +8

      @@mwatkins2464 I mean metal everything. Flat slop roof as well framed with metal. The exterior is GFRC Hardie stucco panels. The front "wood" slat wall is composite. ZERO wood. I'm doing custom concrete + metal piers as well 2ft above grade.

    • @raymondpeters9186
      @raymondpeters9186 Місяць тому

      Metal clad pumicecrete walls and roof will solve all your problems
      Google pumicecrete structures
      Take care Ray

    • @StevenCampbell1955
      @StevenCampbell1955 Місяць тому

      @@mwatkins2464 I had to tell'em that the house had to be demolished when I found every piece of wood was infested, rotten with termites, in a twenty year old house. Some body planted palm trees right up to the foundations and nobody checked for termite tunnels or did sprays.. Excepting the enclosing brickwork, everywhere I poked a blade went straight through. Floor plates, studs trims, rafters and trusses. It was a blooming wonder that someone leaning on a wall didn't bring the whole structure down. Danged shame as that would now have been a half million house. Across the street I could see the same problem of palm trees right up against the footings and all had to shrug and drive away with a tear in me eye. Whole neighbourhoods are going to find the same problem. KEEP gardens away from your footings. About one metre at least.

    • @leonscott543
      @leonscott543 Місяць тому

      ​@@marcus_b1dang chill we don't want to endanger the entire termite species bro 😂😂😂😂

  • @disqusrubbish5467
    @disqusrubbish5467 Місяць тому

    Nice. Looks like a good product.

  • @GregariousAntithesis
    @GregariousAntithesis Місяць тому +3

    Carpenter ants are far more of a problem than termites

    • @budmanzoom4441
      @budmanzoom4441 Місяць тому

      Bora-care works great on all wood eating insects.

    • @matthewbritton5374
      @matthewbritton5374 Місяць тому +1

      Nope. Carpenter ants will only excavate enough area in the wood to house the colony. Termites just keep on eating and eating. big difference carpenter ants aren't nearly as destructive as termites

    • @garypettee8137
      @garypettee8137 Місяць тому

      I don't get why you say "nope". BoraCare kills both. Right?

    • @GregariousAntithesis
      @GregariousAntithesis Місяць тому

      @@matthewbritton5374 then you have never had them i have had both

    • @GriffinThomasMFCEO
      @GriffinThomasMFCEO Місяць тому

      Not even close

  • @necrokittie2291
    @necrokittie2291 Місяць тому

    that looks like window screen and nidor d is also a borate and cheaper then bora-care.

  • @chuckdowns
    @chuckdowns Місяць тому

    Glad to learn this extra precaution. Any thoughts, insights or experience with Hercuwall or Superfloor?

  • @brettwilder5059
    @brettwilder5059 Місяць тому

    Might help for plumbing penetrations....maybe....wont stop from slab cracks....or exterior foundations.....borates suck for termites....just get a termidor treatment every ten years,....fyi i spent almost two decades in pest control in texas,....15 bucks a pipe for these... probably worth it...but can only be done preconstruction.....

  • @geniferteal4178
    @geniferteal4178 Місяць тому

    It looks like a lot of pipes sticking up through the concrete slab. Why so many? It's just a slab. You said vent pipe, going down?

  • @harveypaxton1232
    @harveypaxton1232 Місяць тому

    Do you chemically treat under your slabs? How expansive is your soil in Austin?

  • @rogerwhiting9310
    @rogerwhiting9310 Місяць тому

    If the borate lasts indefinitely...why do you need quarterly treatments?

  • @shephusted2714
    @shephusted2714 Місяць тому

    this was a good look at anti termite tech

  • @b22chris
    @b22chris Місяць тому

    If I have full basement and not a slab do you need these?
    My basement is 8 foot ceilings and about two feet of it is above ground

  • @wayneguy6043
    @wayneguy6043 Місяць тому +1

    $15 each……insane

    • @ptester1
      @ptester1 Місяць тому

      It’s stainless steel so it doesn’t corrode from the concrete. No it’s not cheap but stainless is expensive and they’re made to last.

  • @persistentwind
    @persistentwind Місяць тому +1

    Couldn't you just wrap a piece of Rockwool around the pipes... if you already have a ton of it on sight. In the north I see a lot of foam wrap around pipes... dunno it termites will eat through that.

    • @user-roadwander
      @user-roadwander Місяць тому

      The mesh is not new. The application is.

  • @pcatful
    @pcatful Місяць тому +3

    TWENTY Mule Team Borax not thirty! Actually 18 mules and 2 horses.

  • @brokenwrench404
    @brokenwrench404 Місяць тому +1

    20 mule team borax. I drive by 20 mule team road in boron ca (home of borax) regularly on the way to Vegas.

  • @tjwatts100
    @tjwatts100 Місяць тому +1

    So simple, you wonder why they never invented it before 👍😀

  • @ArthurDentZaphodBeeb
    @ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Місяць тому +5

    Lol, haven't seen a haircut like that Termimesh guy in 30 years.

    • @mrskflynn
      @mrskflynn Місяць тому +1

      How does the saying go.. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

    • @xtaytoex
      @xtaytoex Місяць тому +1

      He looks like Michael Douglas in Falling Down.

  • @andrewmeigs2557
    @andrewmeigs2557 Місяць тому

    Borax/borate is a chemical but it is not an organic complex chemical.

  • @ALLworldCONSTRUCTIONLLC
    @ALLworldCONSTRUCTIONLLC Місяць тому

    Only $15 per pipe 😅 is it patented? 😏

  • @highonsmog
    @highonsmog Місяць тому +3

    20 mule team is now 30 mules with inflation. Old mules worked harder, so needed fewer of them. Mule inflation.😂

    • @pcatful
      @pcatful Місяць тому +1

      Muleflation.

  • @GregariousAntithesis
    @GregariousAntithesis Місяць тому +1

    Never understood why anyone woukd build on a slab for so many reasons is suks

    • @seanm3226
      @seanm3226 Місяць тому +1

      Then you won’t understand South Florida.

    • @GregariousAntithesis
      @GregariousAntithesis Місяць тому

      @@seanm3226 i live in Texass its the same stupidity here

    • @ecantu8841
      @ecantu8841 Місяць тому

      So what would you build on?

    • @aoeuuaoaou
      @aoeuuaoaou 24 дні тому

      A basement in Houston is also called an indoor swimming pool.
      No frost into the ground means no piles needed, with tension cables & built in beams it can support massive houses, floats on the pad/ground

  • @comfortablynumb9342
    @comfortablynumb9342 Місяць тому +3

    I have a better idea. Stop framing with wood. In Central America they build cheap concrete houses that go up in a week. They have exactly zero problems with the homes being eaten by termites or anything else, and believe me they have a lot of termites and other wood eating bugs.
    I treat soil for termites every day. It's ridiculous that we still build with bug food.

    • @raymondpeters9186
      @raymondpeters9186 Місяць тому +2

      Don't build out of termite food

    • @comfortablynumb9342
      @comfortablynumb9342 Місяць тому +1

      @@raymondpeters9186 precisely

    • @disqusrubbish5467
      @disqusrubbish5467 Місяць тому +1

      Cement production is a huge polluter. And how well do "cheap concrete houses" do in an earthquake?

    • @comfortablynumb9342
      @comfortablynumb9342 Місяць тому +1

      @@disqusrubbish5467 they're good for earthquakes. Posts with grooves are put in the ground and prefab concrete panels are slid down in the grooves. Then they pour the slab. It's locked together. Then they put a galvanized steel structure on for the corrugated roof. The structure locks the walls up high.
      Here we'd need to do an inner and outer wall and I'd like to fill it with soil in between so you end up with a cave.
      Another great alternative to wood frames is hempcrete. Earthships are awesome and don't use much wood unless the owner wants wood. I'd love to have one with zero exterior wood.

    • @chptech
      @chptech Місяць тому

      @@disqusrubbish5467 I guarantee one volcano puts out more pollution than any amount of concrete production in the world.

  • @7_of_9
    @7_of_9 Місяць тому +1

    Stop building homes out of paper 😅😅😅😅