Top Three Termite Control Questions

As you probably know by now, termites are a pressing issue in home ownership whether you live in an historical renovation or new construction. They bring a serious threat to not only the aesthetic appearance of your home's construction but also the safety of the structure. If the flooring is hollowed your stairwell, bathroom fixtures, or a person could fall into or through the flooring. If you see them or suspect them on your property, it is important to take immediate steps to rid your home of them or suffer the slow agony of gnawed defeat. They are the wood and fibrous material loving insect that spends its life eating; it gives birth to the next generation and the new ones do it all over again. Several generations can eat their way through your home from one side to the other. You can't afford to wait for inspection, diagnosis of effective treatment methods, and then application in order to complete extermination. Because of the persistence and sneakiness of the pest that hides inside of the materials of your home's construction, it is vital to seek professional management services for termite control. So, aside from the necessity, what are your top three questions for a termite control specialist?

One of the most pressing questions is when you should be on the lookout for these pests. They typically emerge as winged bugs to spread out and start new colonies in the spring between March and May. But, you should always have an inspection performed before moving into a property. It will affect the work that may need to be done after the pests are removed. Just as with your current home, you have to take the presence of termites seriously because immediate extermination leads to quicker recovery. The second most pressing question is how to determine if your home is infested. The quickest ways is to observe where the winged pests emerge from in the spring months. If they are found swarming around your basement, porch, and windows your home may be infested. Also if you find earthen (mud tubes) trailing roads from cracks in your basement, windows, or on your porch, they are inside of your property and termite control applications are needed.

The last pressing question is how to termite control effectively. You can vacuum the ones you see and you can apply a store insecticide, but you cannot reach the infestation that is hidden within the walls and other materials such as the paper of your books, the wood of old furniture, and fibrous rugs too. So, termite control is best left to the professionals who know home construction and can apply a combination of treatments to the typical entry points, the soil surrounding your home's foundation, into the walls, and remove the visible ones as well. You don't want to leave termite removal to chance.