Get other estimates! I had Terminix, Orkin, and two local businesses inspect my house. Both Terminix and Orkin wanted $3000-$4500 to treat my house and the two local businesses told me that I did not need to treat since my house was already treated. The two local businesses showed me how to tell if a house has already been treated and they also told me that the stuff used was so potent that no one can use it for residential anymore. They said I was good as long as I didn't till up the soil on the perimeter of my house, too. I trust the local business guy more than the money hungry, bigger companies. It is easy to have a knee jerk reaction upon seeing that, but you may be able to get the same, if not better, job done by a local company for much less money! Kill the queen and the colony is gone, too!
Strangely enough, my house was framed from "native" oak, which was quite common in the older days so even though the damage was localized to one corner of my house from termites long before it was treated, the native oak wood, though riddled with termite paths was actually a lot stronger than the pine that houses are framed out of these days.
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