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The best measure to prevent an infestation is a termite inspection. DVA Home Inspections Inc. can perform your a detailed termite inspection for free, unless it’s part of a real estate transaction. In the next few paragraphs, we will try to tell you everything you need to know about termite inspections, from how you can be ready for one to what inspectors look for.
Prep For an Inspection
DVA Home inspections asks you to prep before we arrive at your house, you can take several measures to get ready. First of all it is good to make sure the technician can access any prime areas—such as your attic, sink, bathrooms, garage, basement and crawl space, if you have one. Take any overly large or clusters of stuff out of your attic, remove any items blocking expansion joints or exposed wood beams at the floor level in your garage, and anything that prevents access to your crawl space or the enclosure under your sink.
What Are The Inspectors Looking For
These are some signs you might also be able to pick up on yourself. Too often, you can’t tell if termites are in your home until it’s too, or they have wreaked havoc on your home’s wood. That’s why termite inspections are so important.
Wood Damage
If your wood has a hollow sound to it when knocked on or hit with a small hammer, it could be termite damage. Using a cutting tool or even a screwdriver to search for tunnels ripples wood nesting areas would also indicate a swarm. The tunnels are usually in the same parallel lines as the grain.
Termite Droppings
Otherwise known as frass, it is a small oval type pellets, usually white or tan in color. These are found at the exit or entrance areas like baseboards, door frame or around windows in your home.
Mud Tubes
Termites create Mud Tubes because they are very shy of light and exposure to outside dry air. They make roadways to and from the nest, wood(food) and the ground area where they live during the winter months. Mud tubes are a definite sign of termites, but the absence of them does not make you termite free. You could still have termites, drywood termites usually don’t make mud tubes.
Swams
As the weather gets warmer in the spring termites go looking for new food sources. When they head out for new food, they discard their wings, often leaving them in piles. These wing piles will indicate a termite infestation.
Live Termites
Live termites are hard to detect. If you do see one try to identify it, figure out if it is a termite, ants are often confused with termites, A termite would have a light or creamy to transparent like body. There are three distinct groups, workers, soldiers, and reproductives. The reproductive have wings, making them look like flying ants. 
The ants have two sets of wings that are larger in the front compared to the rear short wings. While the termite has two sets with the same size wings. Also the antennae are straight on a termite and bent on an ant. As you can see in the photo to the right the termite are small and look almost ghost like.
Inspection Areas
Older outdoor wooden structures
non pressurized wood fences or wood decks
Cracks at expansion joints or brick construction
Wood mulch, it’s basically food for termites
Deadwood, old or rotting fire wood, dead fallen trees, clutter of sticks and branches piles high
Rotting firewood too close to the home can bring on termite infestation
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