Termite Protection

All our termite protection plans and treatments start with a full and comprehensive inspection of your property including outdoor spaces, indoor rooms and roof cavities. We like to find out as much as we can about where your termites are nesting as well as if there are any entry points into your home where they might be gaining access. Based on what we find, we will work out an appropriate treatment plan for your situation.

In cases where it is a relatively basic infestation of termites (where there is an external nest only) it would be treated with Termidor spray and then left undisturbed for 2 weeks in order to get the product to the queen. Termites will naturally bring the product back into the nest and eventually, kill it from the inside out. Once the 2 weeks has passed, we come back and reinspect thoroughly again, and if there is still activity in the nest, we retreat the site with a second application of Termidor.

It is a much higher concern if there is termite activity in your home due to the long term damage that termites can do in a relatively short space of time both to your structure and its contents. When we inspect, we will find all the entry points in your house and based on the severity and distribution of your termites, we would decide on the best concentration, volume and areas of application.

The best treatment is always prevention and we at Gremlin specialise in the prevention of termites in both residential and commercial spaces. A lot of customers opt to do this after we have treated them for an active termite infestation but we also urge customers to have their property protected before termites become a problem. We offer can offer termite protection from 1-10 years depending on your needs. After our thorough inspection, we would create a custom termite protection plan for your space and to do that, we need to take into consideration, the type of house that you have.

There are 2 major house types and treatment varies significantly between the two. Either your house will have a concrete “pad” in which case, we need to drill around the perimeter of the pad every 20-30cm depending on the product we are going to use. We take great care to drill only as deep as we need to go so as to avoid interfering with any existing pipes, wiring or service lines. Where there is sand or garden beds around your perimeter, we dig only until we expose the slab. Once that prep work is done we can then start the process of measuring and distributing the appropriate product. Where we have drilled the holes, we insert a rod with 2 exit points on the end of it. This ensures the product evenly distributes to create that impenetrable barrier that we need to keep the termites out. Where we have had to dig down to the slab, we would flood that area with product, pushing the soil over the top as we go to contaminate the soil above the flooded area. Once this is all done, we then cork any holes we’ve had to drill with matching coloured plugs.

The other kind of house that you would have is a sub floor style home where the floor is suspended above the surface of the ground with wood, bricks or metal. In this case, we would get under the floor and we dig around every support structure we find in a similar way to the way we dig out a slab. At this point, we would flood these dug out areas with the required amount of product and backfill them as we go.