Orange Oil Scam

I am the Owner of a termite company in San Jose. Your comments are all very interesting and some pretty far from the truth, and partly sound like some "sales"pitch you were given. We generally use Termidor for local treatments because we have had the best results with it. Any chemical used to treat termites can be a primary treatment (primary recommendation), and any termite company can issue a termite clearance if only a local treatment is done, if they feel confident they are not going to have problems later. Thats a chance they would have to take. I have inspected about 30 homes that have had orange oil treatment done, including my neighbors house. In all 30 I found termites not only in the areas that were treated, but areas the inspector either missed or never looked there. I don't know if it was bad application or bad inspection. But it was not good. A few of the homes already had their free anual check up and the owner was told everything was fine, when it was not! Everyone knows fumigation is the only true whole house treatment, and everthing else is a spot treatment no matter what is used. Some just work better than others, and some companies do the job right and some don't.