A few years ago we hired Centex to come in to treat for ants... what we recieve was much more than we asked... a tech went into the attic to use a power spray gun charged with poison, after completing the attic, he handed the un-trained tech on the floor the gun, which he turned on by mistake, not knowing how he turned it on, he had no idea how to turn it off. It first sprayed the master closet, out into the master bedroom and parts of the greatroom, also the a/c was on at the time of the company

error and the poison was carried though out the home. The two techs (one trained and one not) opened the windows and doors to help vent the poison, but this, because of the draft only served to make things worse, the poison was so thick it was said that you could not see your hand in front of your face. So the poison covered everything... silk plants, dishes, carpets, books, pictures, pots and pans, all the furniture... the entire home and all it's belongings where covered with this poison. Dr. Simmons said these items could never be cleaned, Centex had many words, many statements of correction, but action was NEVER taken to help result the mess they made of our home and our life. The master closet was the first to be affected and Phil Mannis of Centex said to have them cleaned and that Centex would pay for them, well $1600.00 later, guess who paid for them, we did, then the Dr. said that you can not clean these items due to the type of poison, so we trashed all the items, this was not all, due to Centex's words to restore us and in waiting for this we lived in over 35 different places, hotels, motels, friends, family, campsites, motorhomes, sometimes one night, sometimes a week and sometimes longer. You never knew, you only hoped, that soon the **** that Centex had entered us into would end soon. One of the biggest stressers was that we still had to pay our morgage on the home that was sprayed with poison by Centex while renting a second place.

We had to clean our home with no help from Centex and the weight of the construction dumpter we had to rent was one point nine tons of our personal belongings. Well four years later nothing has changed. We continue to fight this very large company with no progress. I know we suffered great at the hands of this Centex company, that during the Christmas season was on the radio saying "we care about the family and we are here for you" really?.. it's so I can not see a Centex truck on the road without being upset, once again this event with Centex has changed my life forever, for the bad, and has cost us over $120,000--pretty costy pest control don't you think?

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So, thanks again Centex and Phil Mannis for destroying the life of a fellow human with no regard, except the money, thank you for the " Christian Way guys" All hail King Centex who acts as God over others lifes.

Wayne

CAPE CORAL, Florida
U.S.A.

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Jeff

GreatMIlls,
Maryland,
U.S.A.

Safe after two weeks

#2Consumer Comment

Tue, November 08, 2005

ENVIRONMENTAL FATE

Breakdown of Chemical in Soil and Groundwater: In soil, degradation occurs within 1-2 weeks (12).

Breakdown of Chemical in Surface Water: Deltamethrin in pond water was rapidly adsorbed, mostly by sediment, in addition to uptake by plants and evaporation into the air (91).

Breakdown of Chemical in Vegetation:
About 10 days after use, there are no deltamethrin residues observed on plants. There is no known phytotoxicity to crops (12,84).

A study was conducted of pesticide workers (one mixer, one bagger, and three spraymen) who applied 5% deltamethrin to the inside walls of houses at an active ingredient rate of 0.05 g/m2. The work lasted two days. Each man wore overalls (washed daily), shoes, and a hat. The mixer wore a cartridge-type respirator and rubber gloves. The bagger wore the same, plus an apron. The spraymen did not wear masks. All practiced good personal hygiene. No complaints were received from the workers and no effect of exposure was detected by clinical examination (96). A second trial lasting about five weeks involved three baggers, two mixers, two helpers, and nine spraymen. Conditions, including protective equipment, were the same except that all spraymen wore disposable face masks. Six of the nine spraymen, all baggers, and one of two mixers complained of "heat around the eyes," "heat in the face," or "heat in the face and upper shoulders" plus "burning of the eyes" and tiredness. Complaints lasted until evening of each work day. There were no positive clinical signs of exposure to deltamethrin by any of the workers
All information taken from http://extoxnet.orst.edu/pips/deltamet. htm in this writeup it looks like you could have gone into your house as early as 3 weeks on the safe side after your house got fogged. I doubt anything that they did would be worse than some one setting off a bug bomb in their home.

Robert

Venice,
Florida,
U.S.A.

I question your story !!!

#3Consumer Comment

Tue, November 08, 2005

If want you claim is true, why wasn't this tale of horror reported by any of the local news outlets. Any local news outlet would fight for such a story to be told on their station. Also, in todays world of LAWSUITS you would have LAWYERS standing in line for an opportunity to reap from their 33% part of the certain lawsuit victory. Bottom line, if want you are claiming is true, the resources to fight back would have been made available to you. And as far as the contamination to your home/belongings it wasn't total by any means. Due to EPA regulations enacted mostly in the mid nineties, The LD50 of the chemicals used for residential pest control today are so weak to humans, it would take more than what was on your property during the service to render your home a complete loss. So I wonder if what you say is even true.

Robert

Venice,
Florida,
U.S.A.