Pest Control

Termite damage on a house you’re buying? The inspection form says the inspector isn’t qualified to evaluate it — and names who is.

Termite letters carry no warranty, exclude mold and fungi, and expire at 90 days. The duties in them follow whoever ordered the inspection.

Choosing a termite company means trusting a person you’ll never meet: the operator who selects the chemical for your house. Ask for their name.

Does insurance cover termite damage? Almost never. The standard form names insect damage once, in a collapse provision that a 2000 revision narrowed.

Termite damage repair cost has no useful average — published ranges differ more than tenfold. What decides your bill is the repair standard chosen.

Your termite bond may be retreat-only, retreat-and-repair, or unavailable —
regulators name three outcomes, and the paperwork decides which one you have.

Termite inspection cost buys a document, not a better look — and a crawl space under 24 inches of clearance can be recorded as inaccessible.

Termite treatment cost is quoted by the foot, but depth is the multiplier: the same 160-foot perimeter can need 64 gallons or 256.

Termite-resistant wood ratings apply to heartwood — and the density that supposedly makes tropical hardwoods tough isn’t what’s doing the work.

Borate termite treatment makes wood inedible to termites — but only bare wood, and the EPA label bars it from soil entirely. Here’s where that leaves you.

Termite stakes kill what finds them — and a 15-stake kit reaches about 150 feet of foundation. Here’s what the label and the FTC record actually say.

The best termite treatment on the shelf carries a label that rules out sole protection against termites. Here’s what each product type is actually for.