Termites damage one in five Australian homes and cost $1.5 billion yearly. Watch for blistering paint, hollow timber, mud tubes, dirt in cracks, and discarded wings. Insurance won't cover it, so call a pest control professional immediately if you spot these signs.
Termites are the biggest threat to your home here in Australia. It's estimated that they've caused over $1.5 billion in damage to Australian homes in last year alone. Approximately, that's 1 in every 5 houses gets affected by termite damage. These are the top 5 signs to look for when looking for termite evidence in around your home. Number 1, so blistering paint. If you notice blistering paint or paint that just doesn't look quite right in around your home, that could be signs of termite activity going in behind the walls, behind that paint. So number 2, we would have hollow sounding wood. This could be a door frame, a skirting board, just something doesn't quite sound right when you knock on it and it sounds hollow compared to the rest of the timbers around. Number 3 would be dirt where there shouldn't be dirt, in between cracks and crevices, in between the skirting boards and the wall, or the door frame and the wall. So what it will look like is just your dirt from the outside. So number 4 would be mud tubes, but what these are, are little tubes created by termites to use as highways to get from one piece of timber to another piece of timber. And number 5, The number one sign that you have an issue for me would be the discarded wings inside a home or even in around your home. What happens is termites actually fly at certain times of the year. When they do this, they drop their wings and look for new places to start colonies. So if you find thousands of these in your home, you've got an issue. You need to call someone immediately.
