Okay, I just spent two of the most smelly days of my life!
Day One: One half of the house was covered with white flowing waterlike liquid.
Day Two: Same on the other half.
Apparently it was a mixture of some pest killing chemicals with names of Dursban and Novan.
But its not just the smell that is intriguing; it’s the condition in which we lived in the house for those two days. All the wooden almirahs had to be emptied for pest controlling; that means whole lot of papers, door knobs and stoppers, bone chinas, even cisterns that you’ve never seen and probably will never use for the next ten years; come out from those almirahs and make there place on the beds. That also means a million clothing items which will, if lucky, be worn by our grandchildren, also come out and make our house theirs!
The good part, though, was sleeping on the floor like old times!
Okay, jokes apart, it really was an eye-opening experience, at least for me! Pests, especially, Termites (primarily known as Deemak), are so small things that we often ignore them and their effects on our woodwork. The house temple and the woodwork of the kitchen were so badly affected that the entire wooden blocks had to be thrown away and replaced. Similar was the scenario with the door and window moldings. And with the rising cost of wood and moldings, it reduced more than 5000 bucks from our bank account for the wooden things to be replaced. Add a 2000 more for the person who took the responsibility of killing the pests and you’ll get the estimate of how much ‘late application’ of the pest control chemicals cost. Man, how much money could have been saved if this same thing was done some time back! And the kind man was saying a bucket full of termite that he saw in our house was nothing compared to what he has seen in his long career of 25 years!
Termites, which are not bigger than ants, are those small things in our house that we always neglect but which are eating away our precious woodwork as we speak. Nobody gives a damn about them which is the reason they have to change their wooden almirahs, wooden moldings, sometime the entire doors and windows.
So don’t take it lightly, get your house pest controlled and enjoy the mess that your house becomes!
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