1 in 5 houses have or have had a termite infestation and/or damage. It is important to note that termites will eat any timber or wood that is inside your home.

Termites are capable of eating 5 grams of wood every day and they don’t stop eating, consuming wood 24 hours a day.

Finding the Queen when removing termites from a property is very important as a single colony is able to destroy a home. Living up to 25 years and producing 1000 eggs per day makes them able to cause large amounts of damage to a home over a relatively short period of time.

7 Signs Termites Are In Your Property

1. Head banging, a quiet clicking sound coming from your walls.
2. Flying termites, mostly seen at night ‘Swarmers’ or flying bugs can be a sign that you have termites.
3. Ants or termites, ants can be confused with termites, look at the waist section as it is a lot thicker in a termite than that of an ant.
4. Hollow sounding timber, termites will often consume wood from the inside out, when knocking or tapping in the area will often sound hollow or papery.
5. Tight fitting doors or hard to open windows. This can be a sign of termites as the moisture termites produce when eating and tunnelling through a door and window frame can cause the wood to warp out of shape.
6. Tunnels in the Wood, often difficult to see from the outside but if you see them in a piece of broken timber near or in your house it can be a sign that there may termites in the property.
7. Termite droppings, one of the key signs of termites. In particular drywood termites the droppings are called frass. It has a dark powdery appearance and will be located around the infestation.