Termite Control Richmond VA Professional & Long Term

Termites often start near your foundation. Our inspection process is adjusted based on your home's structure (slab, basement, or crawl space) to ensure no area is missed.

Exterior & Foundation Check:

• Foundation Walls: We search for active mud tubes and structural compromise where the foundation meets the ground.
• Structural Wood: We meticulously check key components like the sill plate, band board, joists, and subflooring for signs of damage or moisture.
• Crawl Spaces (Common in Richmond, VA): We inspect wood scraps, moisture spots, and pipes touching the soil, which are major attractors for termites in the Richmond area.

Interior Clues:

• We examine the inside of your home for subtle indicators like rippling paint or hollow-sounding wood around door frames and window frames.
• The garage foundation walls and the expansion joints are a critical entry point and are always checked thoroughly.

Once we confirm termite activity, our most effective solution is often an application of Termidor HE (TM). This product is a highly advanced, non-repellent termiticide that creates a continuous, protective barrier around your home's foundation. It is effective because termites don't detect it, allowing them to pass through the treatment zone and carry it back to the colony, eliminating the infestation from the inside out.

Applying Termidor HE (TM) is a precise process that involves treating the soil around the exterior of your foundation to form a complete barrier. The product label requires a specific, thorough application method to ensure maximum effectiveness without any runoff:

• Trenching and Rodding: We carefully trench (dig a shallow trench) and rod (inject product into the trench) the soil directly along your home's foundation perimeter. This ensures the termiticide is placed deep into the ground where termites travel.
• Piers and Supports: Any supporting structures, such as interior foundation piers or support posts, also require focused trenching and treatment to prevent termites from bypassing the primary barrier.

In some situations, a trenching/rodding application alone is not enough to create the necessary continuous barrier, and we must perform targeted drilling. While this sounds invasive, it is often essential for effective, long-term protection, and we always restore the area after treatment.

• Concrete Slabs and Patios: For homes with concrete slabs or attached patios, we must drill small, precise holes through the concrete. This allows us to inject the Termidor HE (TM) solution directly into the soil beneath the slab, eliminating a common termite entry point.
• Older Richmond Basements: Many older homes in the Richmond, VA area have solid foundation walls often constructed with double or triple brick. These walls are too thick and dense for the product to penetrate evenly through the soil alone. To ensure a gap-free barrier and complete protection, we must strategically drill into the foundation wall and inject the product directly into the voids and soil adjacent to the structure. This is a critical step for protecting these historic Richmond VA homes.

Our treatment methods are designed to be thorough, complying strictly with the Termidor HE (TM) label requirements to give you the most reliable protection possible.

Our job isn't finished until your property looks just as good as it did before we started. Once the termite treatment is complete, we focus on meticulous cleanup and restoration, ensuring the area is secure and looks great.

We take pride in leaving behind no trace of our work, only the protection of a professional treatment:

• Sealing Drill Holes: Where we had to drill through concrete slabs, patios, or your Richmond, VA basement foundation walls, we carefully seal those entry points. We use a high-quality concrete mix or specialized patch material that is color-matched as closely as possible to the surrounding surface. The goal is to make the repair virtually unnoticeable.
• Backfilling Trenches: All soil that was removed for trenching and rodding around the foundation and piers is immediately backfilled into the trench. We carefully compact the soil back into place, restoring the grade around your home's exterior perimeter.

Before we pack up, we perform a thorough cleanup of the immediate work area:

• Vapor Barrier (Crawl Spaces): If any polyethylene vapor barriers in a crawl space were shifted or disturbed during treatment around piers or pipe entrances, we make sure to straighten and reposition them properly. This maintains the essential moisture control in your crawl space.
• Removing Debris: We collect all equipment, excess soil, and any small debris generated during the process. We treat your property as our own, ensuring your yard, landscape beds, and interior treatment areas are clean and tidy.

When we leave, the only thing remaining is the invisible, lasting protection of your home against termites Richmond VA.