In the driveway / the quote
What Termite Treatment Actually Costs
Nobody publishes real numbers, so homeowners walk in blind. Here is what drives the price and how to compare quotes without getting played.
The honest range
Priced to the structure, not from a menu.
In our market, professional liquid treatments for a typical single family home generally land in the four figures, commonly somewhere between one and three thousand dollars.
Termite treatment is priced to the structure, not from a menu, because the job is measured in linear feet of foundation, the construction type, and what the infestation has already done. That said, you deserve context before anyone stands in your driveway with a clipboard, so here is how the pricing actually works.
Treat any company quoting a precise price before seeing your foundation with suspicion, and treat any quote dramatically below market as a question about what is being skipped.
A number given before anyone has seen your foundation is a guess wearing a suit.
Price drivers
What drives the number
Foundation footprint
Treatments are applied along the foundation and piers, so a sprawling rancher costs more to treat than a compact two story with the same square footage.
Linear feet
Construction type
Crawl space homes are the standard case here. Slabs and attached porches add drilling and injection work.
Access
Extent of activity
A preventive perimeter treatment and an active multi point infestation are different scopes wearing the same name.
Scope
What rides along
Moisture correction or repairs, when the inspection shows the conditions that invited the colony in the first place.
Conditions
Grade level
Every one of those four drivers is measured down here, with a tape and a flashlight, before a number gets written.
How to compare quotes like an adult
Four questions. The answers tell you more about what you are buying than the totals do.
AskWhat product, and is it continuous?
Continuity is the whole product A treated zone with a gap in it is a treated zone with a door in it.
Non repellent chemistry only works if the termites can walk through all of it.
AskIs a written guarantee included?
For how long, and promising what Re-treatment and repair coverage are different documents that sound alike out loud.
Ours is a 10 year re-treatment guarantee on qualifying liquid treatments.
AskAre the crawl space conditions addressed?
Or ignored The moisture that fed the colony is still there after the chemical dries.
A quote that never mentions it is quoting half a job.
AskWho performs the work?
Employees or a subcontracted crew It decides who is standing behind the guarantee when you call in year six.
Ask for the answer before the deposit, not after.
What the guarantee is worth
Our qualifying liquid treatments carry a 10 year re-treatment guarantee: if subterranean termites return to a structure we treated, we re-treat it. Over a decade of Hampton Roads termite pressure, that promise is a real part of the value, and because it stays with the structure, it shows up again as a selling point when the house changes hands. Get the inspection first, then the number: termite treatment details here, or call 757-583-4444.
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