Company record
Norfolk, VA
A Veteran-Owned Company That Works Under Houses
Detect Termite & Moisture Services has worked Hampton Roads crawl spaces since 2015, built on a simple standard: go look, tell the truth, fix it right.
Why the company exists
Hampton Roads homes fight a three-front war: termites in the soil, moisture in the crawl space, and the damaged wood the first two leave behind. The industry mostly split that war between three different companies, each blaming the other two.
We built one company to own all of it. The inspector who finds the problem, the technician who treats it, and the carpenter who repairs it all answer to the same name, which is on the side of every truck and at the bottom of every invoice.
Standing orders
Where the military part shows up
Veteran ownership shows up in the operating habits, not the marketing. Hampton Roads is home to the largest naval base in the world, our customers include a steady stream of service members and veterans, and the PCS season closings we protect are personal to us.
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Show up when you said
A time window is a promise, not a preference. Closings and swarms do not reschedule around a route sheet.
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Document everything
Photographs behind every claim, readings written down, active evidence separated from history on the report itself.
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Brief in plain language
The customer gets the finding explained the way we would explain it to each other, before anyone is asked to decide anything.
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Never report what you cannot prove
No invented damage, and no fix any of us would refuse to put a name on. An inspector who cries damage on every crawl space stops being believed.
Grade level
Everything the company is judged on happens under this line.
What ten years of this work has taught us
Since 2015 we have completed more than two thousand jobs across Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and the rest of the region. The pattern behind most of them never changes, and it runs in one direction only.
That is why our inspectors carry meters and not just flashlights, and why our reports separate what is active from what is history instead of dressing every finding in alarm.
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First
Moisture
Wet ground, poor drainage, and still air keep framing damp long enough to matter.
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Second
Insects
Damp wood is an invitation. Subterranean termites and decay fungi both accept it.
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Third
Damage
By the time a floor feels soft upstairs, the first two have been working for years.
The yard on Granby Street
In house crews, one company name, both sides of the water
- 1 Insulation box truck
- 2 Granby Street shop
- 3 Crew van, our own technicians
- 4 Repair stock on the yard
- Shop
- 9605 Granby St, Norfolk
- Hours
- Mon to Fri, 9 AM to 5 PM
- Routes
- Both sides of the water
- Priority
- Closings route first
The shop is at 9605 Granby St, Norfolk, VA 23503, and the routes run both sides of the water, from Williamsburg to Virginia Beach. We schedule closings around their dates.
Call us at 757-583-4444.
The receipts
Every claim above, and where to check it
Licensing
Licensed and insured in Virginia, with licensed inspectors on every WDI report
WDI reportsPartnership
A BrickKicker partnership that bundles the home inspection and the termite inspection for closings
How the bundle worksWhat customers say about working with us
The full review recordI couldn't ask for a better company to call upon as a part of my team for my clients and for personal use. Mark Martin and team are top notch and highly recommended!
Enjoyed working with James and Mike. Knowledgeable and thorough and willing to take the time to educate me and slow down to show me the things they discovered.
Inspection request
Put us to work on your house
Tell us what you are seeing and we will confirm a time window. Inspections are free when you suspect a problem.
757-583-4444Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM. Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and all of Hampton Roads.