A pest control professional reported a termite treatment failure using Bayer's Premise product, with multiple commenters describing it as an ineffective, 'cheap chemical' that leads to retreatments.

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        "author": "Gemrapper",
        "excerpt": "Honestly as a 20 year Pest Control veteran, who did termite work for 4 of those years, I would say that the treatment was not done correctly",
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        "excerpt": "When we are doing renewal inspections something like that wood we would tell the homeowner it needs removed, untreated wood is a conducive condition. Conducive conditions lead to problems.",
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        "excerpt": "What was covering the termites? It looks like a large piece of wood was there.\n\n Untreated earth-to-wood contact will entirely negate a liquid treatment. If a piece of wood was not treated, it likely enabled the termites to just waltz right past the liquid barrier. I can T&T all I want, but if there's a wood bridge that lets termites just walk past the barrier, then it won't matter.",
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        "excerpt": "were the pieces of lumber removed for treatment? or just treated in place ?\n\n was the proper amount of termiticide used ?",
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        "excerpt": "Aerial colony maybe.\n\n Was there a roof leak?",
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        "excerpt": "So my assumption would be because the wood wasn’t put in the layer of soil that was treated they were able to get into it by traveling the top layer of soil. Unless you are spraying your trench after you fill it that top layer of soil isn’t going to have product in it. Also I will agree with a comment from earlier, Premise sucks, never had more retreatments in my life as when I was working for a c",
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        "excerpt": "My assumption is either the treatment wasn't done correctly or because the lumber was placed there it allowed water to pool under the lumber since untreated lumber absorbs moisture. Due to this, it would weaken the chemical that you had put in the ground due to not draining appropriately.",
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