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Replacing Rotten Wood Sill and Inserting Natural Insect and Rot Repellent

A three-panel sliding door is being installed in the Melrose home, giving a great view of the back garden. Bob explains that before this slider was installed, the back of the home looked like a typical house built in 1921, with a kitchen door and a couple of little windows. First the windows and portions of the wall were removed to make way for the sliders. The old entry door was also removed. During the demolition, some very serious rot and insect damage was found near the bottom of the wall. The rotted wood was replaced with pressure-treated lumber so the house would remain structurally sound. Bob talks to George Allen of Inject Solutions about the insect damage. Allen explains how the panels were removed from the basement so the walls could be exposed. A plug was inserted into the wall at four-foot intervals around the perimeter of the foundation. Bora-Care was then inserted into the holes to seep into the walls and kill any rot spores, prevent mold and mildew, and kill termites and carpenter ants. Fred Powers from Ford's Hometown Services reviews how Bora-Care is made from borate, a naturally occurring product, and how it effectively kills bugs. The plugs were also installed in the columns on the porch. Allen explains that this product reaches the insects inside the walls, where they live.

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" And there goes the header piece boy this is going to be a beautiful beautiful finished job you guys. So what we've got here is 83 paneled sliding patio door and the makings of a nice back backyard beautiful garden. For when we started what we had here was a typical 85 year old backside of the house with. A little door little kitchen door and a couple of little windows and too much architecturally of any interest and of course no -- who. Towards this backyard."

" Went."

" Well after doing the demolition on this back wall. Getting rid of a couple of windows and removing the old entry door. We found some very serious rot and insect damage behind the Stucco down towards the bottom of the wall rightward so it. And I think it's -- And this takes a little bit -- time to deal with but it's very important to replace that rotted wood. With pressure treated lumber so the house remains structurally sound. --"

" All right."

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" They don't. But we've all this evidence of insect damage we thought it made sense to get some help from George Allen who started an innovative company close to here in Gloucester Massachusetts. After his own career as a builder seeing lots of these problems in New England --"

" For what we do is we we have to remove the panels in the basement. And we expose the wall area. What we're doing to protect the sills because we're so close to the ground here and you have a lot of exposure to termites carpenter ramps -- in whatever critter that wants to run into the wall. Where injecting we're gonna insert into the wall one plug every four feet along the perimeter of the building. And from that point so we did great coverage we're gonna go into each individual bay and we're gonna drill a quarter inch hole into each individual very. In inject the Bora kid into -- wall that's gonna give us complete saturation of the OBS sale. That's gonna seep down between the sheathing the inside of the sheathing and the sill in both the plaster wall and the sill and it's gonna wrap right around. There's gonna soak into that -- Pretty close to the center of that wood with the Bora care. And it has the glycol in there and glycol is gonna kill any spores. That's inside the wood that's possibly rotting is gonna kill the rot spore and it's gonna prevent the mold and mildew."

" Okay. How well we using here Bob -- naturally occurring product called Bora care. It's made from borates is so -- a lot of nearest the midwest. It uses into products like by seen things like that they arise sir. Any kind of slash product so it's something that's because it's naturally occurring. Or at the end nice -- cooperation has we're just together with a product that we didn't all. The home to prevent termites and decay fungi and half millions of insects. -- get this on them. They naturally groom themselves. And and then it's lights out."

" We have an exterior plug that's designed to go into. Wood sheathing from three quarters of an inch to two inches this'll go into anything from paper thin. To up to two inches. Missionary -- missionary block. Goes into steel panels it'll go into anything that you need to put that into what kitchen. Commercial kitchen for behind your fire latest where you have a big problem with. Possibly cockroaches and different stuff that's a natural that comes into a restaurant. You install these plugs in the backside of these areas. You get and treat inside the walls where they live they don't live in the middle floors they live behind the walls underneath the cabinets in closed dark areas. Where it's damp you have a constant problem this -- hear from you concentrate."

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