Timely Termite Inspection Can Make or Break Your House

Jul 1
08:24

2011

Aloysius Aucoin

Aloysius Aucoin

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Homeowners discover that the best thing they can do is to request a professional termite inspection. It will save the walls and fibrous structures within the home.

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It is every new homeowner’s hope that they’ve purchased solid walls to surround them and a sturdy roof over their heads. When the flooring,Timely Termite Inspection Can Make or Break Your House Articles appliances, paint, and obvious structural applications seem to be in good condition, in a great location, for the right price; it is a dream come true. However, upon a thorough termite inspection, the new home owners have to be devastated with the news that there are not only several termite mud tunnels leading from the earth surrounding the house but there are live termites throughout the examined areas of the basement, decreasing in severity the further you move from the ground level. Despite the news, the homeowners believe that the house can be saved and they are still determined to maintain their move in date. 

The couple questioned how the termite inspection helped to discover the thorough infestation? And, how will the home be treated in order to rid itself of the hungry critters, save the supporting structure, and get them in, in good time. First, the professional exterminators will locate any nest or points of entry to eliminate the further infiltration. The exterior of the home will be chemically treated to prevent further entry or exit. The inspectors inform the homeowners that these bugs entered the home where any fibrous structure such as wood made contact with the soil outdoors. The basement was off limits until the treatments were allowed to kill off majority of the remaining feeders. The rest will eventually die off. 

The homeowners discovered that the best thing they could have done was to request a professional termite inspection, it saved their home. Once the professionals moved further into the exterior walls, it was determined that several areas would have to be replaced due to the partially hollowed condition of the wooden structures. However, the damage was indeed contained to the beginning of an infestation in that basement of the home. The basement sits inside of and is a part of the foundation of the home. If those walls hollow, crumble, and collapse; so do the rooms above it. 
As first time home owners this couple learned that termites aren’t just a nuisance, if left unnoticed and untreated for just the few months that the home was vacant, they can cause great structural damage that can prove dangerous to the living inhabitants thinking that the floors will support them. So instead of allowing their home to be eaten out from under them and abandoned to collapse, the homeowners had the property treated with liquid applications in and around the property or dry treatments applied to home structural surfaces. After renovations were completed the new family moved in and slept safe and sound.