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Purchasing a home comes with many risks. Fortunately, many resources are available to homeowners that help protect their investments in case of an emergency. One protection many property owners invest in is homeowner’s insurance. This covers you if your home is affected by a fire, natural disaster, or other destructive events.
Do you know what homeowner’s insurance doesn’t cover? Termite damage. If you have never taken a second to think about how to protect your Knoxville home against these damaging pests and the dangers they pose, today is your day to start.
What Are Termites?
Here in Knoxville, most common termite species is the subterranean termite. For the sake of consistency, when we say the word termites today, we are talking about these specific wood-destroying pests.
Termites are social insects that construct and live in colonies deep underground. Each colony is built near a source of gatherable food, but what is considered “gatherable food” for termites? In the case of termites in our area, gatherable food is any wood or wood-based material softened by water damage, rot, or decay. If your home or any of your outbuildings are affected in these ways, termites will look for ways to invade.
To get to the structural wood of a home or outbuilding, termites dig tunnels underground. If a foundation of stone, concrete or other non-wood material stands between these pests and where they are looking to go, they will build mud tubes to cross the gap. These mud tubes are designed to keep termites moist and protect them as they transport wood from your home back to their colony.
Are Termites Dangerous?
Termites pose no direct risk to humans or animals. If anything, these pests do their best to stay out of sight and not interact with any creature bigger than themselves. The only real risk these pests pose to homeowners comes with the droppings they leave behind inside homes. These droppings get into the air and act as particulate irritants for people with allergies and other respiratory issues.
How Destructive Are Termites?
Termites cannot destroy a home in a week. They can’t even do it in a month. The truth is, it takes termites multiple years to deal serious damage to a home. To add insult to injury, Termites are quiet pests, meaning you might not realize their presence until it’s too late. You will not see these wood-destroying insects wandering around in your kitchen. You won’t hear them banging inside your walls. The only thing you will notice is the damage they do as they slowly destroy your home.
Signs You Have Termites In Your Knoxville Home
Most signs termites leave behind only show up years after an infestation starts. The only real early clue that gives these pests away is the mud tubes they occasionally build up the exterior of buildings. Beyond this, there is no real easy way to know these pests are eating away at your home, that is, until it’s too late.
Eliminate Termites With Dead End Exterminating
The best way to find out if your home has termites is to have a pest professional come out and take a look. At Dead End Exterminating, we use industrial-grade equipment and advanced strategies to inspect homes for termites.
If any of these destructive pests are found during our visit, your technician will then suggest your next course of action. Regardless of whether or not your home has termites, we recommend you invest in year-round professional termite control. This is the only true way to keep these destructive pests from destroying your home and property.
Contact our team today for any questions you have or to schedule your Knoxville home for a service visit.