Welcome back everybody to episode four of the Harpoon Pest Control podcast. Glad to be here this week, we got a couple friend invites from this podcast, which is always nice. And we look forward to work with a lot of people in the future on this podcast. As we said before, we got some future plans with that. But this week, we’re going to talk about termites. So the reason why we’re talking about termites right now is because we are about one month away from termite season. Termite season starts about in this in the state of PA starts around March. So it’s a good time to talk about termites, how you can prevent termites is what we’re talking about. Um, this is a big season, a money making season for realtors sellers, because people that sell homes, buyers normally want termite inspections, and termite treatments. And this is the time where Realtors really sell houses the spring, summer time. So termite is one of the things that we should really talk about right now. And how you can prevent them. If you’re a homeowner quits, you want to get that you want to get that started force.

Yeah, so, you know, like he was saying, um, this time of year is normally when we get a lot of requests for for homeowners or relatives to do termite inspections and stuff like that. And I know in our office, just as week, we got a few requests we went out. And even in a month of February, you know, we found active termites. So it’s definitely a situation where you can have a need for a termite service just about any time of the year. Because if termites have a wood source or food source to eat on, they’ll just, they’ll just do it, they’ll just kind of constantly do it. So today, we’re going to just briefly talk about some things that you can do to prevent termites. And you know, if you have a new home, or if you have a home that you’ve been living in for a long time already, there are some things that you can actually do to protect your home for termites. And that’s, that’s what that’s what we’re going to talk about in this.

Yeah. So the first thing that we’re going to talk about is water. What attracts termites, so termites is attracted to water and is not regular raindrop water, we’re talking about heavy amounts of money moisture around your home, how does that happen? Now, you may have a concrete surrounding on the side of your house, maybe all around your house, you may have grass or whatever, that does not matter. They are subterranean, they travel underground and if water is getting through your concrete against your house, or water is pouring into your soil, it can be a situation where termites you know, come towards your home and it attracts them. So the number one thing number one thing you can do to prevent termites one of the things is have good gutters and good downspouts if you have a flat roof, the water got to go somewhere, right? So it comes down the downspout and then the city a lot of it goes into the sewer pipe was strengthened to the storm drains of the city. However, a lot of them pipes are starting to go bad and you’ll see a lot of people just downspout running against the house running on top of the concrete or it runs to the ground and it just goes into nowhere and it just goes through the concrete. But when that happens, that’s what causes the risk of termites because a lot of the basements have within or 100% of the basement have wooden floor joists. So it would be good to walk around your home and see okay, where’s my downspout going? Does it come down and go into a sewer line actually goes into the sewer or does it come down and have an elbow one and bends and points away from the house? Or does it just come straight down and just hit the ground? Alright, the last one is what you don’t want. The last one is what you don’t want water attracts termites.