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Termite Control From Dayton’s Professional Installer
Termites are pests that everyone is familiar with, but no one imagines that their house or premises will fall victim to their unseen attack. Here in the Dayton Ohio area, at least two species are found regularly: the subterranean termite and the drywood termites. Although both these species are incredibly prevalent around local homes and businesses, some property owners fail to understand just how widespread these insects really are and the extent of the damage they can do.
Termites are one of the most destructive pests you’ll never see until it’s too late. Unfortunately, they spend their entire lives quietly and unobtrusively eating away at the wood framing inside your home. You may not realize that termites are in your home until they have caused severe damage to its structural components.
With expert termite control services from EcoPro Termite & Pest, you can protect your home from these wood-destroying insects.
The Process
Eliminate Termites and Prevent Future Infestations
Whether you’re addressing an active termite infestation or taking preventative measures, understanding the treatment process is key to safeguarding your home. From thorough inspections and WDI reports to various treatment options, we’ll walk you through each step to ensure your property stays protected.”
Getting Started
Termite Inspections
Termite inspections are essential for real estate transactions, suspected infestations, or visible damage to determine whether the issue is caused by termites, carpenter ants, or moisture damage.
The technician specially licensed for Termite inspections will inspect the interior and exterior of your home or building for any signs of wood-destroying insects, new or old. Insects include termites, carpenter ants, wood-boring bees, and fungi. Unfortunately, Termites can do a lot of damage to decorative finishes, framing, or worse yet structural members before they are obvious to the casual observer.
The most common evidence of a termite infestation is generally “mud tubes” running up a foundation or wall tracks in walls behind the paint or damaged woodwork. Other times it’s easy to determine the problem when the termites look like flying ants swarming out of the floor or other areas.
At the end of the inspection, which generally takes about 45 minutes, the technician will discuss the findings, letting you know if the property is clear or not. Explain if treatment is necessary, what your options are and give a quote for any treatment needed.
WDI Inspections
If the home or business is being purchased and the Termite also known as a “Wood Destroying Insect” inspection is for a Real Estate transaction, the findings are required to be reported on an approved NPMA-33 form per State of Ohio law. This form is produced electronically onsite, saving critical time, and can be sent along with an estimate for treatment (if required) directly to the Realtor who will forward it to the bank or lender.
Finding the Right Solution
Trench & Treat Method
We use the best products available, BASF’s Termidor or Taurus. It is the fastest and surest method of dealing with a termite infestation. Over the long term, it is the most efficient and cost-effective choice. The chemical is confined during application and is bonded to the soil as soon as it dries, killing termites through contact and ingestion. As the termites ingest the treated product and return to their colony, they spread the termiticide through the subterranean tunnels and expire shortly after.
In-Ground Stations
We use BASF’s Trelona, the leading inground baiting station system.
These stations have the fastest response time of all the brands available for dealing with a termite infestation. The termiticide is in a sealed replaceable cartridge placed in the station making this a great Eco-Friendly option. The cartridge contains a chemical that attracts the termites to the bated cartridge. The termites bring the chemical back to the nest, eradicating the colony.
Trench & Treat Liquid Treatment
Subterranean termites live in colonies just below the soil around your home, barn, or building. Treating the soil around the infested house creates a barrier as the chemical bonds to the soil.
Termites cannot detect these chemicals as they crawl through the treated soil or while consuming treated wood or cellulose, making Termidor or Tarus an effective and thorough treatment option.
How it works:
Worker termites tunnel through the barrier in search of cellulose (a wood product) and unknowingly carry the poison back to their nest, rapidly eliminating the entire colony. When the colony has been wiped out, the chemical remains, creating an invisible wall of protection around your home, ready to eradicate any new attacks by another termite colony.
How treatment is applied:
The treatment begins with a narrow trench alongside the foundation all around the building. The termiticide is then pumped into the trench using a specialized rodding tool, creating a ‘barrier’ between the termite colonies and the foundation as it permeates down and bonds to the soil. After the termiticide has soaked into the ground, the trench is backfilled and smoothed over.
Crawl spaces may require further rodding around piers and pipes in contact with the ground. Any concrete, blacktop or pavers, porch floors, patios, or driveways adjacent to the affected building may require drilling a series of small ½” holes through the surface to inject the termiticide into the ground below, preventing gaps in the barrier. The holes are then sealed to match when the treatment is finished.
Occasionally, certain areas inside the home may require treatment, such as around plumbing or in addition to the house. In such cases, we may perform a targeted spot treatment using Termidor foam, especially in concealed spaces like inside walls where suspicious activity is detected.
Trelona Baiting System
Subterranean termites live in colonies just below the soil around your home, barn, or building. Placing the baiting system around your home creates a barrier. The chemical then attracts the subterranean worker termites as they tunnel towards your house seeking cellulose (wood product) they latch on to the poison in the cartridges and then unknowingly transport it back to their nest, poisoning the colony quickly. When the colony has been wiped out the chemical remains, creating an invisible wall of protection around your home ready to eradicate any new attacks by another termite colony.
Termites cannot detect these chemicals as they crawl through the treated soil or while consuming treated wood or cellulose, making BASF’s Trelona baiting system an effective and thorough treatment option.
The in-ground station installation is quick and generally noninvasive. These stations are designed to be installed around the exterior within 20 feet of each other and within 4 feet of the structure. Our technician may do a spot treatment inside the home using Termidor foam in areas that have suspicious activity. The termiticide in the Trelona stations goes to work affecting the termite colony within eight to ten days.
After the initial service, our technician will return every three months for the first year checking all the bait stations for termite activity to ensure that they are working as intended and to replenish the bait cartridges as necessary.
At the end of the year the stations are checked for damage and the initial cartridges are removed and replaced with fresh cartridges that are rated for annual inspection and replacement.
The Trelona baiting system does require annual upkeep to maintain a viable defense against further termite infestations.
Both our treatment options come with a one-year warranty that is renewable and transferable to new owners at
no additional charge.
Protect Your New Build From Termites
Don’t let termites compromise your new construction. With options like pre-slab soil treatments and exterior baiting systems, we help builders and homeowners create a solid foundation for termite-free living. Learn how to safeguard your new construction from termites—explore our proven prevention methods today!
New Construction
There are two options available using the best products available, liquid treatments and or exterior stations. For a building with a large commercial footprint, it is highly recommended to do a soil treatment before the slab is poured, possibly followed by exterior perimeter stations. Residential can be done the same way but often the builder is not inclined to facilitate the treatment. The Trelona baiting system is the perfect choice for this scenario.
Soil treatment using a liquid termiticide at the dilution rate of one gallon per ten square feet before the concrete slab is poured provides the best protection against future termite infestations. The object of the treatment is to establish a continuous barrier to prevent termites from coming up through shrinkage cracks or protrusions in the slab. The treatment is performed after the footings have been poured and the sewer and perimeter drains are installed and covered by the sub-slab fill. Slab foundations can often be completed in one treatment. If exterior backfilling is required for basement foundations this area may need to be done later as backfilling is undertaken.
Monitoring Stations
In conjunction with your builder, one station is installed once the sod or grass seed has been installed. This station is then charged out as a full treatment to make sure the treatment is included in the purchase price. As soon as the heavy watering of the sod is completed the rest of the pre-paid system is installed around the home or building to start protecting the building from attack from termites in the backfill.
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1 Year, Renewable
Warranty
This is invaluable, giving you the ultimate in Termite protection. EcoPro Termite & Pest includes a one-year warranty with all termite treatments, giving you the peace of mind should a termite reappear we will evaluate and spot treat if necessary at no further cost to you.
If you sell or retitle the property your warranty is fully transferable to the new owner at no additional charge or administrative fee and may be renewed annually for the pre-agreed price. Annual warranties include a courtesy inspection to check that the treatment barrier has not been breached, and make sure no other pest issues are affecting your space or quality of life.
If renewed annually, you have full coverage should any new termite activity be discovered during the covered period. The cost of any required retreatment is at no additional cost to you.
Termite Insurance
Program
Worried about the possibility of a Termite infestation in the future? Why pay for an expensive whole-house treatment when you can secure coverage with an affordable annual fee?
We offer a program similar to car insurance, where we take on the cost of future termite treatments if the need arises.
Here’s how it works:
First, one of our specially licensed technicians will inspect your home to confirm there is no active termite infestation and that your property is in the clear. Once approved, you can enroll in our program, which covers the cost of treating any termite infestation during the covered period. You’ll only pay an affordable annual fee, which includes an annual inspection. If termites are ever found, you’ll pay just a small deductible—saving you from the high cost of a full treatment, which can often exceed a thousand dollars.
Comprehensive Termite Control & Prevention
With the help of EcoPro Termite & Pest by your side, all of this is possible and more. You can quickly and easily ensure that your home, business, or specialty property has total protection against colonies of all sizes and stop wood-eating insects in their tunnels! We customize our approach to meet your needs and treat you and your family with the respect, care, and quality service that our customers have come to admire.
Give us a call today, to request an estimate for your termite control service. Our team of professionals is always here and available to answer any questions or concerns you may have. We are happy to guide you through every step of your treatment program!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Take a closer look at your termite questions with our in-depth FAQs, covering everything from termite behavior to control methods and their impact on your property.
Termite 101
How common are termites?
The truth is that termites are a major problem in our area. These insects cause extensive damage to wood-framed structures, furniture, and other items in the building and foster conditions for other issues such as rot, and wood-destroying organisms. Without proper protection from a pest control professional, the damage caused by a termite infestation can quickly become expensive and pose dangerous situations, where structural members like floor joists, beams, or wall framing are weakened as the termites forage for new food sources.
What causes or attracts termites?
First and foremost, it is usually moisture, followed by the misfortune they found a fresh source of cellulose at your property. Termites are blind and cannot differentiate between the wood pile outside your building (a bad idea) or the wood framing inside. Leaking pipes, improper grading and drainage, water pooling alongside the foundation, and poor airflow in a crawl space all have one thing in common: they attract termites.
Where are common termite trouble areas?
- Inside of Exterior Walls
- Garage Door Framing
- Below Leaking Windows
- Sill Plate/Band Board
- Main Wooden Beams
- Stone Foundations
- Prefab Storage Sheds
- Siding Below Grade
- Stacked Firewood Near House
- Leaky Pipes (moisture)
- Pooling Water at Foundation
- Dying / Dead Trees
- Mulched Flower Beds
- Dirt-filled Porch
What should you expect from your termite expert?
EcoPro Termite & Pest believes termite control and treatments are best accomplished with a combination of speed, service, and skill. Once you call our friendly office staff and book a termite inspection, they will make it a priority if you have a termite infestation or something less invasive like carpenter ants, we’ll inspect your property and disclose our findings to you, all at no charge.
There are no salesmen, no middlemen, and absolutely no waiting period. If a termite treatment is needed, we will get it scheduled immediately. If it’s something else, we’ll treat it the same day!
At EcoPro Termite & Pest, we have years of experience working with older homes and properties. To ensure that you receive the best termite protection, we use cutting-edge products and equipment to guarantee a quick, long-lasting result. We use Termidor, a BASF, exclusively to stop the termite activity and remove the subterranean colony that has invaded your space. Get your free termite inspection by contacting our pest control professionals.
Termite Treatments Explained
What are preventative termite treatments?
In the Dayton area, preventative treatments are an inexpensive way to avert the possibility of termite damage to your home or business before it happens. In other words, treat your home or business before termites are found. This is a very common practice in states that have been traditionally warmer than we have been over the past few years.
With changing global weather patterns, the Miami Valley is experiencing hotter and wetter weather, creating the perfect habitat warm and moist for termites to thrive in.
If you want the comfort of knowing that your property is protected from future damage by invasive wood boring termites, call us at 937-263-6912 and schedule an estimate.
Does a termite treatment repel termites?
Modern treatments, unlike older treatments, do not repel termites but instead kill the termites that come in contact with the chemical. Your treatment will not send termites to your neighbor’s home.
Can termite treatments be applied in the winter?
Once the ground becomes frozen or close to freezing, we do not believe that liquid treatments should be performed because the chemical will freeze before seeping into the ground to the required depth for effective termite eradication. However, Trelona baiting stations can be installed in cold weather and still be effective.
How long does a termite treatment last?
In a perfect world, it could last as long as fifteen years. Unfortunately, the treatment is often breached by homeowners, construction crews, or landscapers digging around the house to plant trees or installing a deck.
Can you treat termites near a well or cistern?
The treatment using bait stations does not create an issue. Using a liquid requires that instead of the trench and rod, the soil within five to ten feet of the water source be dug up and treated in a wheelbarrow or on a tarp and then put back in place so that there is no liquid seepage.
Can we be at home during a treatment?
Yes, that is not a problem, however, pets and young children should be kept inside to prevent accidents while we are there or off the treated area until the chemical in the ground has dried.
Can you treat without driving on my grass?
Yes, our termite rig has 400 feet of hose on the reel, which allows us to keep our truck off lawns and still get around the largest large ranch or luxury home with patios and pools that may restrict other companies.
Beyond the Basics:
Treatment Types, Inspections & More
Termidor vs. Taurus chemical treatments: what's the difference?
There is no difference other than they are made by different companies. Both products have the same main ingredient, fipronil, and are labeled for the same use. BASF has been on the market since 2000.
Are termite liquid treatments dangerous for animals?
Once our liquid treatments are dry and bonded to the soil, they are safe for pets and family members.
What are WDI Termite inspections and do you need one?
Wood Destroying Insect (WDI) inspections are often referred to as a “Termite Inspection.” This inspection is required by most banks, mortgage companies, or lenders (VA, FHA, HUD) when a home is being purchased. Lenders do not want to lend money for a property with a serious defect that can cause structural issues.
While the main focus is on termites, followed closely by carpenter ants, wood boring bees, and powder post beetles, to mention a few, the technician will inspect the exterior and interior of the building and any adjacent sheds or garages to determine if there is an infestation of termites, carpenter ants, wood boring bees, woodpeckers, powder post beetles or any other bug or pest that is attacking the wood or the structure.
The WDI inspection takes about 35 minutes, and the inspection results are reported as required by the state of Ohio on “Form NPMA 33.”
If a treatment is required, you will be given an explanation of the problem, a treatment plan using Termidor, warranty, and cost.
The WDI form and any required treatment are generally emailed as soon as the inspection is completed and should be forwarded to your Real Estate agent and/or lender.
In our area, termite treatments are more often than not paid for by the seller of the property.
What is an NPMA-33 form?
If the home or business is being purchased and a Termite – “wood destroying insect” – inspection is required for a Real Estate transaction, the findings are required to be reported on an approved NPMA-33 form per State of Ohio law.
For more information on residential and commercial termite elimination, contact us for a free, no obligation estimate!
Identify Termite Damage
Unsure whether the signs in your home or business indicate termite damage? Our photo examples illustrate the extent of damage termites can cause, helping you identify early warning signs and seek professional assistance promptly.
EcoPro 100% Service Guarantee
When you trust us enough to treat your property, we appreciate that trust. As a local family-run company, we are committed to providing the highest levels of service to our customers. We guarantee all our work and its effectiveness. If pests return between scheduled visits, we will return free of charge and take care of the problem. It’s what we do!
