What Is Pre-Construction Termite Treatment and How Does It Protect Your New Property?
Between property damage after a home is built and extermination hassles, having termites can create severe headaches to builders and buyers alike. Protecting against a possible termite infestation before your home or commercial investment is built is an essential step to keeping your property in working order and saving yourself from costs down the road.
Whether you are building your own home or are selling it, protection against termites should be a primary concern on your to-do list. Termite pre-treatment is an excellent addition to any home sale, giving peace of mind for the foreseeable future to everyone involved.
How Does Pre-Treatment Work?
Termite treatment during pre-construction is a vital step in ensuring you have a termite-free construction area. Termites can make their way through cracks as thin as a piece of paper, usually in areas where the ground meets your home, making them formidable pests to control. To protect against this, numerous pre-treatment methods can be used to keep termites out before you or your buyers move in. One way is the chemical treatment where walls and floors intersect or inserting chemicals into holes where slabs-on-grade will be built. Using specific chemicals to treat portions of your building where wooden products such as doors and cabinets will be placed can also protect the most likely areas that termites will seek out. If wood products are already set and exposed, an anti-fungal wood preservative and insecticide such as Borate can be sprayed, as fungal growth would suggest that moisture, which termites require to thrive, is present.
The most common method of pre-treatment is to dig a trench around your building’s foundation, garage, porches, and plumbing before it is poured. The soil is then chemically treated with an insecticide and refilled. This is the most effective treatment for Subterranean Termite control and creates a chemical barrier between the soil where termites live and your home, keeping them away from your property and any entry points. It also kills any termites that return to the ground from your property.
Due to their ability to live in your home undetected for long periods, pre-treatment is vital to protecting your property from future damage.
Pre-Treat Your Home For Termites Before You Begin Construction
Serving Long Beach Island and Southern Ocean County, LBI Pest Control has protected the new home construction industry with termite pre-treatments for over 30 years. We work with the biggest names in commercial home building in the state. With a 5-year termite-free guarantee, our pre-construction work is sure to put you or potential buyers at ease when it comes to purchasing a home or selling your property. Don’t wait until it’s too late, protect your investment with a pre-treatment before termites treat themselves to your residential or commercial property. Call us today at 609-384-5019 and schedule your pre-treatment assessment. We also offer termite inspections and wood-destroying insect inspections for real estate transactions and homeowners.