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Termites don’t read blueprints. They follow moisture and cellulose, then quietly mine the fibers that give wood its strength. By the time you notice a springy f…

Termites do not wake up one morning and decide to eat a healthy, dry house. They follow moisture. If the crawlspace is damp, the grading slopes toward the found…

The first time I crawled under a hundred year old bungalow to assess termite damage, I remember two things clearly. The air smelled faintly sweet, the way old d…

Termites work quietly. Most homeowners first notice them when a vacuum smudges a baseboard that feels oddly soft, or a door jamb crumbles at the strike plate. B…

Old houses carry their history in the grain of their beams. You can read the story of a 19th century farmhouse by the tool marks, the hand cut tenons, the way a…

Termites do not chew evenly. They tunnel along grain lines, hollow out compression zones, and ignore the parts we would prefer they leave alone. A floor that on…

Termites don’t read blueprints. They follow moisture and cellulose, then quietly mine the fibers that give wood its strength. By the time you notice a springy f…

Termites do their worst work quietly. By the time you notice a hollow-sounding baseboard or a buckling floor, the colony has already eaten through years of grow…