4 things to consider before your next termite inspection
Setting up a home visit with your friendly termite inspector is the first step to preventing and eliminating the threat caused by unwanted termites and pests. To help ensure your termite inspector gets a very thorough look, it's important to appropriately prepare your home for the inspection. The experienced termite inspection team from CTS Termite and Pest Control has created this simple checklist on the top 4 things you need to consider to help prepare your home for its next termite & pest inspection.
1. Give trees and bushes a little trim
Kick-off preparations by starting outside. Give the trees and bushes around the home a good pruning by giving your trusted tree pruning experts a call. For their colony to thrive, termites need two things; water, and food. If they are not chewing through your wooden furniture and fixtures, they could be feeding on wood planted nearby your home. Your termite inspector will thank you for the easy access around these areas, so pruning trees and bushes will help immensely.
2. Clear the way inside the home
After providing great access to plants around the home, the termite inspector will go through the house to check for internal damage and termite trails. In most termite-affected areas around Australia, subterranean termites leave the most devastating damage among the various species of termites. What your termite inspector will then need to do is go through the home to look for damage signs and chips through the woodwork. To make this task easier for your termite inspector, make the home as free from clutter as possible; move furniture around that may block critical access points for the termite inspector, move cabinets off of walls, and give your termite inspector plenty of access to check out interior walls.
The interior walls are just one of the many places in the home where detecting termite activity can get tricky. It would also help your termite inspector to get good access to other parts of the home not frequented by common human activity such as the attic, any crawl spaces, and storage areas.
3. Goods stored by your external walls
An important part of any termite and pest inspection is the careful investigation of the outside walls of your home. Your inspector will need unencumbered access to all external sections, particularly if your home is built on wooden stumps or if you have wooden garden beds just beside critical access points to the home. Grab a mate and ask him/her to help you lug the heavier stuff around. It'll only take a moment and having these sections carefully inspected will ensure you've got peace of mind over any potential termite or pest infiltration.
4. Brief housemates/family members
After checking everything off, make sure everyone in the home is aware of the impending inspection. Having a termite inspector around may limit their movements and its important your housemates and/or family members understand the importance of such an inspection. During the termite and pest inspection, it's important for the entire household to listen to the termite inspector's instructions to make sure the check goes as smoothly and as swiftly as possible.
The friendly experts from CTS Termite and Pest Control provide complete termite and pest control services across all suburbs of the Gold Coast. If you're suspecting or witnessing termite activity around your home, waste no time and contact us today. You can reach CTS Termite and Pest Control via phone on 1300 664 971, or set a time to visit our office at 3/19 Jay Gee Court, Nerang.
