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Termites do not announce themselves with noise or drama. They work quietly, tuck into sill plates and joists, and leave paint looking smooth while the wood behi…

When termites chew into a house, the damage rarely stays on the surface. Paint might look fine while a sill plate turns to sponge, a subfloor sags at a doorway,…

Termites don’t chew evenly. They tunnel along the springwood, leave pockets of latewood, and turn a once solid joist into something that looks sound on the outs…

Termites rarely make a dramatic entrance. They hide in the quiet parts of a wall, behind stucco or lap siding, tunneling through sill plates and sheathing until…

Termite damage rarely announces itself. A soft baseboard here, a blistering patch of paint there, and then one day a screwdriver slips clean through a sill plat…

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 floo…

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 fai…

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 …