The door frame or window frame generally made of wood, be it teak, mahogany, meranti, camphor or the other almost certainly a loss for the current termite and his friends, if termites feasting left menggeroti will you change the wood frame wood frame into a termite nest. If the damage is already more than 50% of wood-frame you are difficult to be saved and you should replace it with a new, suppose you have to replace them with new ones you can consider sills cast that is resistant to termites, for more details you can read reviews sills cast minimalist here.
If the damage wooden frame of not more than 30% you do not need to replace the sills new one to save costs quite patched alone, for patching frame is porous due to termites is not difficult and the material is also very cheap, the materials that you need to prepare is:
1. glue wood (eg glue eagle, weber or fox)
2. the powder of the dried sawn timber
3. the pesticides can be found at the farm store, or you should use botanical pesticides
steps patching wood frame loss as follows:
If the damage wooden frame of not more than 30% you do not need to replace the sills new one to save costs quite patched alone, for patching frame is porous due to termites is not difficult and the material is also very cheap, the materials that you need to prepare is:
1. glue wood (eg glue eagle, weber or fox)
2. the powder of the dried sawn timber
3. the pesticides can be found at the farm store, or you should use botanical pesticides
steps patching wood frame loss as follows:
- Clear sills from dirt termite nests with clean water
- Brush porous surface with pesticides (insecticides)
- Clean the sawdust from dirt
- Mix sawdust with wood glue and water with a ratio of 1 liter of water + serbuka timber 10 kg + water 10%
- Once the dough is ready, you patch with a spoon kapi, do it carefully, fill in all the spaces porous and adjust its shape to the wooden frame you
- After 1 week puree using fine sandpaper
- Then brush with pestisda and let it dry
- After a really dry coated with putty or plamir wood
- After 3 days puree with fine sandpaper
- Freshly painted with wood paint to match the color of your wood frame paint
- finished ....
Prevention is better .... for preventing termites and gnaw your sills sills preferably before you in cover with paint, brushes with pesticides and allow about 1 week then the wood frame is coated with a paint timber.
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