Sub Floor Framing
When building a subfloor frame for your home the best way to protect it from termites is to use an ant cap on top of all your stumps before you attach any of your bearers.
Regular inspections will still need to be carried out as the termites can build galleries around the ant cap.
For brick veneer homes you can use stainless steel mesh also known as Termi-mesh. The gaps in this mesh are to small for the termites to fit there head through which in end stops them as there head is the largest part of there body.
The H grade for subfloor materials should be 'H3'. Which protects against moderate fungal decay and termite hazard and is good for exterior structural timber work.
Subfloor Project
Once we had everything square off our profiles and all our heights correct we were then ready to start installing our framed floor.
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