Totality Wood Treatment is designed to be applied to raw wood/lumber in a structure or not. You can make the application by foaming, spraying, or brushing on. Allow the wood to dry for at least 72 hours before applying drywall.
Totality Wood Treatment is designed to protect raw wood from wood-destroying insects such as termites, but it does not protect from wood decay fungus or mold. Boracare or Timbor would be a more appropriate product to help protect from wood decay fungus. Keep in mind that wood treatment is not a substitute for any measures required to reduce humidity or otherwise correct moisture conditions in a crawl space or other areas.
Totality Wood Treatment should not stain when used on raw untreated wood, however it may leave an oily residue. Please contact the manufacturer FMC at 800-321-1362 on the extent of the residue it may leave behind.
Per the Totality Wood Treatment Label: Totality Wood Treatment will control existing infestations of drywood and subterranean termites (including Formosan termites), carpenter ants, carpenter bees, powder-post beetles, false powder-post beetles, deathwatch beetles, and old-house borers in wood-in-place. Note: This type of application is not intended to be a substitute for soil treatment, mechanical alteration or fumigation. A spray concentration of 0.06% (as listed in the dilution chart below) has not been shown to provide long-term structural protection.
Commercial applicators apply Totality Wood Treatment to both wood and wood based products and will protect those treated products from damage for up to 2 years from carpenter ants, subterranean termites, drywood termites, formosan termites, ambrosia beetles, deathwatch beetles, false powder-post beetles, powder-post beetles, old-house borers. We recommend that you treat carpenter bees with our Carpenter Bee Control Kit. For more information on a successful eradication program, please take a few moments to review our article on How to Get Rid of Carpenter Bees.
Apply one coat of diluted Totality Wood Treatment solution up to the point of runoff by brush, spray or foam application. Note: This type of application is not intended to be a substitute for soil treatment, mechanical alteration or fumigation. A spray concentration of 0.06% has not been shown to provide long-term structural protection.