Termite Control Melbourne

2. You can hear clicking sounds

If you can hear small clicking noises coming from your walls but can’t see any obvious causes, you may have a termite infestation. Termites communicate through vibrations, so those sounds you hear might be the termites talking to each other by tapping their heads against the wood or consuming timber.

More often than not, however, termites don’t create an audible sound and most noises within wall cavities or roof voids tend to be related to rodents or other pest activities. Whatever the cause, you’ll want to get a professional assessment of your wall cavities and our termite specialists are equipped to deal with properties of all shapes and sizes in Melbourne.

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3. There are termite galleries in your timber

Another key warning sign that termites have invaded your home is when you find little tunnels or galleries in your walls or under your house. Termites are subterranean creatures: in nature, they build tunnels through and out of the ground to access and harvest the cellulose from timber. Given the opportunity, termites will utilise the timbers from your home as their food source to supply their colony, which is almost always located remote from the building.

As you can imagine, termite galleries can be very hard to detect.

Therefore, if you have any reason to suspect a termite infestation, please contact our termite removal experts for your free consultation. As specialist termite controllers, we have the necessary tools and equipment to detect termite tunnels accurately and can let you know within a few moments of seeing the property.

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4. Termite mudding

As the fourth telltale sign of a termite infestation, termite mudding will often be spotted around the home. Termites use their poop to build tunnels. This allows them to leave their subterranean environment without dehydrating and protects them from predators.

While it’s easy to assume that termite mudding would be fairly obvious, it can help in discovering termites, however,  mudding can also enable termites to gain concealed ingress into a building making their detection very difficult.

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5. Difficulty opening doors and windows

Termites produce a lot of moisture when chewing through wood. Naturally, this can swell your doors and windows, making them feel stiff when you try to open them. While the difficulty you have opening your doors and windows may be simply due to wear and tear, it’s still worth keeping an eye out for other potential signs of a termite infestation.

If you have recently noticed that your windows or doors are stiff and can recognise one of our other termite warning signs, be sure to contact us as soon as possible. Early detection is critical: the later you put off solving the issue, the harder, and more expensive, it’s going to be.

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6. Hollow Wood

Lastly, as termites are a subterranean species, worker termites will never expose themselves to an external environment. This means that they will consume timber from the inside out. Naturally, this makes visual detection of termite ingress very difficult, so you are unlikely to be able to detect termite-damaged timber just by looking at it.

As a DIY test to see whether your wood is hollow, knock on your timber elements and flooring every 6 months. If they feel hollower than usual, you may have a termite infestation.

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