SKUAS installs TermiPore porous pipe for schools and colleges in new buildings before the floor is cast and in trenches around existing blocks, charged with Envu Premise SC at the IS 6313 dose. Refills every 2 to 3 years are done from outdoor junction boxes without drilling, and we schedule them in vacations when campuses are empty.
Schools hold more wood than almost any other building type: rows of desks and benches, library shelving, wooden stages in assembly halls, almirahs full of exam records and lab cupboards. Most of it sits on the ground floor, where termites arrive first. A principal usually finds out about the problem when a library shelf gives way or a box of old answer sheets turns to powder in the store room.
The other constraint is time. Treatment work cannot happen during classes, and parents rightly ask what chemical is used anywhere near their children. A reticulation system answers both concerns. The pipe is laid once, and each refill is a short outdoor job at the junction boxes that can be finished during summer, winter or Diwali breaks, with the chemical going into the soil rather than onto any surface students touch.
Library stacks, admission files, old registers and exam papers are made of paper and cellulose, which is exactly what termites feed on. These rooms are often on the ground floor for easy access and stay shut for long stretches, so mud tubes along the wall go unnoticed until a full shelf is damaged.
Wooden desks, benches and cupboards standing on floors with termite activity get eaten from the legs upwards. Schools then replace furniture in batches, at real cost, without dealing with the soil under the building. Treating the furniture alone does nothing to stop the next batch from being attacked in the same rooms.
Any drilling, noise or chemical work during term time is disruptive and draws questions from parents. That leaves a few weeks in the summer and winter breaks. A treatment method that needs repeated drilling inside classrooms is hard to fit into those windows across a whole campus, year after year.
Many schools and colleges add a new wing, lab or hostel every few years. Each new building is a chance to lay pipe before the floor is cast, but the chance is often missed because nobody briefs the contractor. The older blocks on the same campus then need a different approach.
We plan installation and refills for vacations or weekends, share the schedule with the administrator in advance, and finish the outdoor work before students return.
When a new wing, lab or hostel is being built, we coordinate with the contractor to lay pipe along all wall lines before the floor PCC, so the block starts life with refill points in place.
For existing classroom blocks, we lay pipe in a trench along the external walls and position junction boxes away from play areas, assembly grounds and walkways.
We give the school a short note on the product used, how it is applied in the soil and the precautions taken during work, so the administration can answer parent queries.
The pipe we install
Made in Vadodara, Gujarat, India from a thermoplastic elastomeric compound with a honeycomb micro-pore wall. Termiticide seeps out evenly through micro-pores on all sides, unlike hand-drilled PVC that leaks at a few holes. The manufacturer rates pipe life at 30 to 50 years (manufacturer estimate).
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The chemical we charge it with
Imidacloprid 30.5% SC from Envu (formerly Bayer Environmental Science). It is odourless and non-repellent: termites cannot detect it, carry it back to the nest and pass it on to the colony.
Why we use Premise SCSchools with several blocks usually choose PipeGuard Max, since scheduled refills under AMC can be lined up with vacations and the annual inspection covers libraries and stores. A single-building school may find PipeGuard Plus enough.
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