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The Water Bottle Termite Trick... SIMPLE And CHEAP

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Elias Yoder

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It is a Tuesday morning in October. You walk down into the cellar of your house, the same cellar your family has walked into for thirty years, and you turn on the light. And there, on the wooden support beam under the kitchen, you see something you have never seen before. A thin line of dried mud running up the foundation wall and onto the wood. Termites. You take a screwdriver and push it gently into the beam, and the wood crumbles like a stale cracker. Hollow. Eaten from the inside out.
You call the exterminator. Eight hundred dollars for the basic bait station installation. Two thousand dollars for full perimeter treatment. Three to five thousand for active colony elimination. And the same exterminator charges three to six hundred dollars per year to come back and check the stations he installed. Forever.
In this video, I walk you through the $0.50 DIY termite monitoring station that does the exact same prevention job as those eight-hundred-dollar professional stations — built from a throwaway plastic water bottle, a single thirty-cent stick of balsa wood, a can of fluorescent orange