The borates mix easily with water. Dip the wood or spray the borates onto the wood so the solution soaks in. Borates protect your house's lumber from wood boring insects like termites, beetles, and carpenter ants. The application of borate solutions directly to lumber is not really new. These chemicals have been widely used in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand for nearly 40 years.
Borates are highly toxic to wood boring insects and fungi.
They exhibit low toxicity to humans and other mammals. Once the wood has been treated and kept dry, the borate protection is extremely long lasting. What's more, the borates do not affect the appearance of workability of the lumber. The borates are non-corrosive to metal fasteners used in lumber, they are odoorless, and they are extremely cost effective. A S S Glass is actually relatively soft and it is porous.