Lazy Daze being tented for termites this week..

So.. For this week, we're doing tenting.. for termites! As I'd hope most of you know virtually all RV's, trailers and whatnot are made using wood! As with anything made with wood, eventually those pesky termites will find their way in and setup their own all you can eat buffet on your RV. The Lazy Daze is no different! When we purchased ours we knew it had an issue with the bugs as we saw tell-tale signs of their presence -- the salt-n-pepper stuff they left behind in one of the storage bays. We knew we wanted to nip them in the bud by having it tented. We checked with one local place we've used before and got a quote of $550 for the job but they had issues with doing it on their property and were taking their time which I read to mean that they were not as interested in doing the job.. So, I contacted another local firm that does tenting -- Andy's Termite in Lomita and they did the job for less than the first place -- a very reasonable cost I think..

As with tenting a house the termite place must follow the required regulations and the tenting process takes 3 days here in California. Below is a picture showing the rig all buttoned up being fumigated.

To me this seems like something that ought to be done about every 15 years give or take -- assuming you keep your RV that long. Keep in mind that many termite places will NOT fumigate any structure (house, RV, etc) if there are no signs of activity so keep an eye out for that. One other thing to note about having an RV tented -- you may want/need to remove the propane tank(s) from the rig prior to doing the tenting to ensure there's no source of combustibles -- this is the same thing now required by law for doing home tenting -- the gas meter is disconnected from the house and left outside of the tent to ensure no source of gas in the house to combust -- see this story for the background if you like...