Dear PCO,

My first day in the pest control business was September 17, 1971. I went to work for Big State Pest Control as a salesman. I was trained in classes by a graduate entomologist and a horticulturist. I left Houston in the summer of 1985 and started my own Corridor Pest Control Company in San Marcos. In 1994 I found that I couldn’t put in a full days work. The problem was beyond the medical doctors in the area. I decided that I had to sell my Corridor Pest Control, hoping that I could live off of the proceeds. Thanks to a neighbor I got into holistic medicine, which started a slow recovery. After a couple of years I started Environment Sensitive Pest Control. I started testing holistic methods of pest control that were practical to a professional PCO.

Finally after ten years I have found out how to dissolve borate, disodium octoborate tetrahydrate into water, by using a surfactant and a vortex devise, so that it can be sprayed onto wood, and not clog up the equipment or crystallize on the spray nozzles. This vortex devise and surfactant allow the borate to go to the center of four two by fours screwed together, in five weeks. Those who are licensees of Environment Sensitive Pest Control will have the use of one of these devises. We will soon have an improved surfactant that will kill more molds and fungi than the present surfactant that I use. This surfactant is not propylene glycol nor will be the ones that are in the future. The surfactant will be available in a concentrated form, with gas prices; it is ridiculous to have a product that is 90% water. The borate will stay in solution, so that it can be carried in a pickup in a 5 gallon can until it is used in a hand tank for spraying pests. Then I found cedar oil that will give a knockdown to the borate solution. After that came diatomaceous earth, which kills scorpions on the day that it is dusted into an attic. Cedar sawdust sprinkled around the base of a building discourages insect entry. This is not the new growth cedar chips that Cedarcide sells, but cedar sawdust ground from old stumps from ranches west of San Antonio.
I have been working on this for the past ten years; I didn’t want to share it with you until now. I am ready to start distributing the above products. These products must be bought in bulk to enjoy better prices. I will make them available to you at an affordable price. Those PCO’s purchasing these products from me will have access to my expertise. I intend to service San Marcos and Wimberley as a test area for my ideas and products. The EnviroTech WP borate is labeled for preventative termite on a building under construction, remediation in existing pier and beam buildings or buildings being remodeled. This borate is available in 50 # bags in Central Texas, by the pallet in the rest of the nation. I am building a network of those who are licensees. These PCO’s will have the advantage of my pest control sales experience, as well as my website and membership in environment sensitive organizations in the area. I intend to expand to cover the nation with licensees of Environment Sensitive Pest Control. I get inquiries from across the nation on a daily basis.
I am working with a researcher with the U S Forest Service who is presently testing the above borate, surfactant and vortex to determine the amounts necessary to gain and maintain control of insects, molds and fungi.
Sincerely,
Kenn Brown TPCL 11108

email: kenn@environmentsensitive.com

From: Dan Wilson
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 5:17 PM
To: kenn brown
Subject: DOT Borate Test

Here are my results:

I used ultrapure water with no additives. I used vigorous vortexing with a
magnetic stirring rod (vortexed at speed setting of 4 using Thermolyne
Cimarec 1 vortexer).
I put 10 grams of product in 100 ml of water to make a 10% solution (w/v).

Timbor took about 12.5 minutes to dissolve completely (fine powder)
Envirotech WP took about 9.0 minutes to dissolve completely (fine granules)

Cheers, Dan.

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A. Dan Wilson
Principal Research Plant Pathologist
USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research