TERMITE SERVICE AND INSPECTIONS
TERMITE INSPECTIONS
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Termite Inspection
While Wisconsin’s “native” termites are known to be less aggressive when it comes to home damage, new invasive termites have been appearing in the area with the arrival of landscape timbers and garden mulch.
While they normally wouldn’t survive in Wisconsin’s climate, warmer temperatures as of late are allowing them to inhabit the area year long. That said, with the help of Safeway’s affordable and extensive termite inspection services, we can ensure your potential home is free of termites so you can move forward with the loan process.
Termite Control
Identifying and treating termites early can save homes from immense structural damage and massive repair costs. Our team of licensed pest specialists are able to determine the severity of the issue at hand and will move forward to quickly and efficiently resolve the problem.
If the problem is less severe, Safeway offers a simple chemical spray around the border of your home to repel termites. For more severe situations, a full remediation and restoration might be needed.
Identifying Termites
General Appearance:
Workers are about 1/8"-3/8" long and they are a creamy translucent color and do not have wings.
The soldiers have a brown colored head with large mandibles (jaws), and no wings.
The "alates" or swarmers (reproducers) are about 3/8" long, can be winged or wingless and dark brown to black in color.
Subterranean termites build distinctive tunnels, also known as "mud tubes" from the ground to the wood they infest. Termites use their scissor-like jaws to eat wood from the inside out. Subterranean termites also feed on books, paper products, and other products containing cellulose.
In Wisconsin the eastern subterranean termite swarms during the daylight in spring when groups of reproductive termites will go off to start new colonies.
Warning signs of a termite problem include the presence of winged swarmers and seeing their discarded wings, mud tubes near your home's foundation and evidence of damaged wood.
Prevention
Avoid water accumulation near the foundation of your home.
Divert water away from your home using properly functioning downspouts and gutters.
Keep all wood debris away from your home and property.
Eliminate wood contact with the soil. Maintain a one-inch gap between the soil and wood portions of your home.
Repair cracks and gaps in the foundation of the building.
