What is Bora-Care?
Bora-Care is an EPA-registered termiticide, insecticide and fungicide that eliminates the need for soil termiticide and fumigation treatments for termites.

Pest control companies apply it directly to the wood and concrete on walls, subfloors, sill plates, piers and expansion joints, and around pipe chases and plumbing protrusions. This creates a continuous barrier that termites cannot cross and eliminates wood as a food source. Treated wood is also protected against other wood destroying organisms such as carpenter ants, wood boring beetles and decay fungi.

Bora-Care is a HUD-allowed wood treatment. It is applied during the dried-in phase of construction as two-foot perimeter pretreatment against subterranean termites (including Formosans). It can also be applied simultaneously or separately as a whole house treatment to kill and prevent drywood termites.

Bora-Care offers the stability and reliability which builders find missing in traditional subterranean and drywood termite treatments such as soil termiticides and fumigation. A study conducted in Mississippi showed that soil termiticides can break down by 50% or more in just one year (Mulrooney et al, 2006). And while fumigation kills termites, there is no residual effect preventing a new swarm from invading the structure—even in the same year. But with a single application done according to label directions, Bora-Care penetrates deeply into wood and remains in the wood as long as it is in service, providing residual protection.

Bora-Care Eliminates Soil Termiticides
Bora-Care is a better choice than soil termiticides for both the environment and overall construction.

Unlike soil termiticides and fumigation, Bora-Care's active ingredient is a natural borate mineral salt less toxic than table salt to humans, fish, birds and mammals, but deadly to insect pests. In fact, Green Builder Magazine^® selected Bora-Care for its inaugural Overall Grand Prize, Best of Show award at the 2006 National Green Building Show.

Note: While there are many borate wood treatments on the market, Bora-Care is the only product registered by the EPA as a "primary" termite pretreatment, meaning it can replace soil termiticides.

Traditional soil treatments pump 200 to 300 gallons of diluted termiticide under and around an average house. Bora-Care conserves water; it only uses 2–3 gallons. And because it's applied directly to building materials, there's no danger of chemical run-off into water systems.

Soil termiticides can cause CPVC plumbing pipes to leak. Bora-Care is the first termiticide listed as chemically compatible with Noveon piping systems. Bora-Care has been found to be compatible with the CPVC materials of FlowGuard Gold^®, BlazeMaster^®, and Corzan^® pipe and fittings. FGG/BM^® System Compatible indicates that this product has been tested and is monitored on an ongoing basis to assure chemical compatibility. In addition, Bora-Care will not corrode metal fasteners, fittings or nails.

Bora-Care Replaces Fumigation
Fumigation is a common treatment for drywood termites in coastal areas, but it poses huge problems. Everyone must vacate the premises, food must be double-wrapped, all utilities are shut off and the entire structure is covered with giant tarps as a toxic chemical is pumped into the home. The process can take 3-4 days and cost thousands of dollars. None of this is a factor with a Bora-Care whole house treatment. There is no potential property damage from tenting, and because Bora-Care contains no volatile organic compounds, no one has to leave or take extraordinary precautions during application.

How Can Builders Save Time and Money with Bora-Care?
Bora-Care new construction treatments give builders more schedule flexibility and control by removing many of the common scheduling and performance problems they encounter with old-style treatments.

• Builders save a day of cycle time.
• Crews don't have to leave the site during application.
• Treatment is not weather-dependent.
• No need to coordinate pest control and cement
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• EPA-registered
• HUD-allowed
• Listed for use under the 2006 International Residential Code, Section R320 Protection Against Subterranean Termites.
• Only Bora-Care's EPA-registered label allows it to be used on wood as a primary termite pretreatment, eliminating the need for soil termiticides.
• Meets the sill plate end-cut requirements set by building codes and the American Wood-Preservers' Association (AWPA).
• 12-year study by the USDA Forest Service and Mississippi State University's Forest Products laboratory proved wood treated with Bora-Care repelled termite attacks and prevented subterranean termites from tubing over treated wood.
• Louisiana State University tests showed that Bora-Care applied to concrete surfaces prevents Formosan termite tubing.