When I got termites in my house I was told that Termites live in the ground, and eat the wood. Termites only eat wood that is dead.

The reason that termites were so bad at my house is for one thing my yard slopes. From the front of the house to back is about a 2' drop in elevation.

The foundation at the front is only about 6" above the ground, and somebody had nailed a piece of flashing across the front of the house so that the siding didn't extend all the to the foundation.

Termites don't like light, they build "mud tubes" from the ground to the wood, so they were coming up between the flashing and the foundation. You don't see the termites they are inside the mud tubes like little tunnels. If you break the tubes you will see the termites. Normally they won't build these tubes if the wood is more than 8" from the ground.

Also termites like it moist. The flashing also covered the vents. I have now removed the flashing, dug a trench along the front of the house, and added 2 vents to dry thing out. Plus added the Sentracon System.

I don't think I will have to deal with termites again.

Now termites in other parts of the world may be different.

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