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If you have never seen a sill plate crumble in your hand, count yourself lucky. I have, more than once. Termites work quietly, sometimes for years, until a flo…

If termites have chewed through your sill plate, you feel it everywhere in the house. Doors go out of square, floors bounce near the exterior walls, and the fa…

You do not need to see a live termite to know they have been at work. A hollow thud when you knock on a baseboard, paint that ripples like orange peel, sagging…

Termites love two things: wood and moisture. A wet basement offers both, along with darkness and steady temperatures. When floor joists sit above a damp crawls…

Termites do not care about your paint color, your gallery wall, or the fact that you have asthma. They move silently, eat cellulose, and leave behind paper-thi…

When a door suddenly sticks, a baseboard crumbles under gentle pressure, or your living room floor gives a little spring it never had, your stomach drops. Term…

I have opened a lot of walls that looked fine at first glance and found galleries of chewed wood, paper, and frass just behind the paint. Termites are quiet wo…

If you have found termite damage in a wall, the hardest part is not spotting the chewed galleries or the crumbling drywall. The hard part is restoring the stre…