Termites, carpenter bees
Termites and Wood Destroying Insects
Defending your home's foundation. Termites and carpenter bees, handled with liquid barriers and baiting systems that take out the colony.
Chapter 01
What termites leave behind
Termites rarely announce themselves. The clues are mud tubes climbing a block foundation or pier, swarmers around a window in spring, and wood that sounds hollow or feels soft when you press a screwdriver into it. By the time a tube is easy to see, the colony has often been at work for a while.
Carpenter bees are the other half of wood destroying insects. They drill neat, perfectly round holes in fascia, deck rails and trim, and a pile of sawdust below the hole gives them away. Both pests favor shore homes where wood meets damp ground, which is why the inspection covers decks and trim as well as the foundation.
Mud tubes running up a block foundation from a narrow trench in the soil
Liquid barriers and baiting systems
We work with the two methods the trade relies on: liquid barriers and baiting systems. A liquid barrier treats the soil along the foundation so termites meet it on the way in. Baiting systems place stations in the ground that foraging termites carry back to the colony, which is how a bait reaches the nest.
Which one fits comes out of the inspection: how the house was built, the soil around it, how much access we have, and how active the colony is. The aim is to eliminate the colony, not just clear away the tubes you can see. Defending your home's foundation starts with an honest read of what is really there.
Chapter 03
Monitoring the foundation
Termite work doesn't end when the treatment does. Scheduled follow-ups let us check bait stations and the foundation line, and a detailed digital report after every visit records what we saw, so any change is on paper rather than in memory. Monitoring is step four of our process, and it is where a surviving colony gets caught.
You can help from the outside: keep wood off soil contact, pull mulch back from the sill, and keep gutters moving water away from the foundation. If you've spotted mud tubes or swarmers in Brick, Toms River or Manasquan, call or text (732) 829-3881. We're licensed and insured, and if the pests return, so do we.
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