Are you dealing with termites in your home? If your house is primarily made out of wood, it’s extremely important to enlist the help of a seasoned pest control Boynton Beach professional before those pests cause considerable damage to your hardwood floors. If you don’t know much about termite infestations, and how they can potentially destroy your flooring system and other parts of your house, read on.
If there’s one thing you need to know about termites, it’s the fact that they feed on wood. Once these pests find their way into your home, you might as well brace yourself for the damage they can do to your wood-constructed walls, doors, and hardwood floors. In fact, experts say that any kind wood that comes in contact with the soil and is up against your building foundations is like an open invitation to future termite infestations. In fact, termites can manage to squeeze themselves into tiny 1/32-inch cracks. Before you know it, termite colonies have already taken residence in your home.
You’ll know that you have termites in your home when you see pencil-thin mud tubes that line your walls, windows, floors, pipes, chimneys, baseboards or door frames. In case you’re not aware, they use these mud tubes to protect them as they search for food. The sight of termites inside these tubes means that you have an active termite infestation.
Other types of wood floors feature a natural resistance totermite damage. These include the Jatoba, Peruvian walnut, redwood, Honduranmahogany, teak, and Alaska yellow cedar. Meanwhile, those that are prone totermite infestation are spruce, southern yellow pine, and many more. In otherwords, termite infestations depend on the type of wood you have in your home.
Keep those termites at bay with the help of a trusted pest control Boynton Beach expert. Contact O’Hara Pest Control today.