Termite Removal
Northern Beaches

Removal & Protection Against Termites

Termites are known across Australia as ‘white ants’. These common household pests create huge levels of damage to homes in Northern Beaches on a yearly basis, creating a large need for termite removal.

Termite Control & Protection

There are numerous potential treatments for termites, so let’s have alook at each quickly. There’s two main strategies conducted for termite pest control: first is the complete eradication of the colony with baiting, and second is using chemical treatments to produce a barrier between the residence and the termites. Call us today for more information about the costs involved with various treatment options.

In Northern Beaches, chemical treatments are the more traditionally applied management strategy to kill white ants. However, interception and baiting for colony eradication has its’ advantages that shouldn’t be ignored.

It is important to have the termite situation examined by a professional bug exterminator to assess the damage and suggest a suitable management plan.

So you know you want termite removal, and you’re looking for the best treatments that Northern Beaches can offer? Need to make sure you’re getting best bang for your buck on termite removal in Northern Beaches? For additional information on making the best choice, our team are more than happy to assist, and we provide very affordable costs as well.

For additional information on white ant inspection costs, please don’t hesitate to make contact with our specialists.

Chemical Treatment Options

Repellent Chemicals

Repellent chemicals are useful for protecting locations because termites quickly detect and choose to avoid them. However, if treated locations are compromised later or locations can not be treated as a result of access difficulties, then white ants will detect the gaps and gain ingress through those areas.

The commonly used repellent is Bifenthrin, which features a residual life of as many as 5 years after application.

Non-Repelling Chemicals

Repellent chemicals are not detectable by the termites. Given they don’t avoid the chemical, they will move over the chemical and die after coming into contact with it. They often also pass the chemical on to other colony members that they come into contact with, thus creating a compounding result.

Since termites can’t identify non repellents, they are unable to know the difference between treated and untreated areas, so entrance through possible gaps is much less likely.

Fipronil is the most commonly used non repellent on the market, and features a residual lifetime of as much as 8 years.

Baiting Systems For Termites

Used to eliminate termites within a house, Above Ground Systems position bait stations directly where there is termite activity, so the termites feed on the bait matrix instead of the structures they have been eating until recently. As well as killing the termites that eat the bait at the source, there is also a compounding effect when worker termites feed the bait to other colony members.

Ongoing monitoring and assessment allows the bait stations to be re-baited, added to or moved, based on observed termite activity. In this manner, the entire colony can be sradicated even if its location isn’t known.

In Ground Systems are employed in a similar manner, but they are usually installed around the property to provide an early warning system for signs of a potential termite problem. Systems such as these are especially useful when the design of the structure may prevent effective perimeter barriers being created, as they can block termites before they breach the boundary.

Benefits of Termite Baiting Systems

Common Signs That You May Have Termites

General signs that your dwelling has a termite infestation:

Can Termites Damage My Building?

If left untreated, even a single nest of white ants are capable of doing a surprising amount of destruction. The building may even become unusable due to the significance of the infestation, and in the extreme, may even be irreparable. Chat with Pest Control Northern Beaches now to organise a thorough evaluation of your Northern Beaches property by our termite removal experts.

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