Drywood Termite Swarming: The Bad and the Ugly Nothing puts termite control at the top of a homeowner’s mind quite like a swarm of termites. I’ve inspected homes where termite-damaged eaves had been ignored for years. I’ve met homeowners who admitted they’d been sweeping up termite droppings for months—sometimes even years—without doing anything about it. […]
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Poisoning Termites vs. Poisoning Their Food There are different ways to poison termites. One way is to poison the termites directly. Fumigation does this by filling the structure with gas. Homeowners attempting DIY treatments may spray visible termites with pesticide. Orange oil treatments involve drilling into termite galleries and injecting a solvent that kills on
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Termites Love It When Homeowners Choose DIY I inspected a home in Oceanside the other day. When I arrived, the homeowner proudly showed me all the products he’d used over the past twenty-plus years—Terminate from everyone’s favorite home improvement store, a few organic options, and some other odds and ends. I’m not sure why DIYers
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Protecting Your Home from Termites — and from Our Mess Termite treating is messy work. On the exterior, inspectors probe your home’s wood, sometimes sending a spray of termite droppings onto your patio or walkway. Technicians drilling and treating can leave behind a light dusting of sawdust around the perimeter. Thankfully, that’s all outside—rain takes
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New Wood vs. Old Wood Whenever I inspect an older home that has a newer addition, I usually find that the termites are in the addition, not the original structure. At first, that might seem surprising—after all, the older section has been around much longer. But the difference comes down to the type of wood
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Inside a Chimney Tube I’m not inside the actual chimney tube—there’s no way I’d fit in there—but I am inside the framing that surrounds it. Usually, this area is completely inaccessible. Honestly, nine out of ten termite inspectors wouldn’t squeeze themselves where I was in this video. And even if they did, they wouldn’t expect
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Don’t Wait: Why Quick Action Against Termites Matters A lot of people assume that finding termites automatically means tenting their home. Because of that, when they see signs of termites, they hesitate to call a termite control company. But waiting only makes the problem worse. Ironically, by putting it off, you may end up needing
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California Termite Visits Camp Pendleton As proud members of the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce’s Military Affairs Committee, representatives from California Termite recently participated in the annual Camp Pendleton Private Bus Tour. The tour departed from the Chamber office at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday the 30th and made its way through Oceanside to the south entrance
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