Borate-treated building materials offer unparalleled protection for wood, and the following benefits for homeowners:

• Durable: Borate-treated building materials are guaranteed to last 20 years - four times longer than traditional barriers
  
  
• Affordable: On average, using borate-treated products adds two percent to the construction cost of a home - a one-time expense that is far lower than the amount homeowners often spend repairing damage caused by termites or applying less permanent treatment solutions
  
  
• Safe: Borates prevent fungal decay and are deadly to termites, carpenter ants and roaches - but safe for people, pets and the environment. Borates interfere with termites' metabolic processes, effectively killing them. Surviving termites avoid protected wood products.
  
  
• Effective: Borate-treated building products have been used successfully for decades in Europe, New Zealand and other parts of the world; for ten years in Hawaii, home to some of the highest termite activity in the world; and increasingly throughout the continental United States, where termites cause up to $3 billion in damage each year.