Termite Control
Found mud tubes on a skirting board, or timber that gives under your thumb? Call 1800 381 000 and speak to a licensed Melbourne technician today. Quotes are free, and if you go ahead with treatment, so is the inspection. We tell you exactly what we have found and how far it has gone — right across Greater Melbourne.
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Signs you need a termite inspection now
- Mud tubes on walls, foundations, stumps or in the subfloor
- Timber that sounds hollow when tapped, or floors that give underfoot
- Doors or windows that have suddenly stopped closing properly
- Discarded wings near windowsills, especially after summer rain
- Bubbling or cracked paint that looks like water damage but isn’t
What it costs, and when the inspection is free
Quotes are free, always. Call us, describe what you have found, and we will tell you what the job is likely to involve and what it will cost. That conversation never costs you anything. The inspection is free when you go ahead with treatment. If we inspect and you book the treatment with us, we waive the inspection fee entirely. If you decide not to proceed, or the inspection finds nothing needing treatment, the inspection is charged — and we tell you that price before we book it. You will never be surprised by an invoice. What an inspection costs on its own depends on the property: its size, and how much subfloor and roof access there is. A single-fronted terrace and a double-storey home on a big block are not the same job. Call and we will give you the number over the phone.What happens when you call
- We book an inspection — usually within a few days, sooner if there is active damage.
- A licensed technician inspects the property — interior, subfloor, roof void and the full perimeter, including the fence line and any timber in the garden.
- You get a written report setting out what was found, where, and how far it has gone.
- We recommend a treatment and quote it before any work starts. You decide.
- We treat, then we monitor. Termite work is not finished the day the technician leaves.
Our termite services
- Termite inspections — annual checks and one-off investigations
- Termite treatment — chemical treatment and colony elimination for active infestations
- Termite barriers — chemical and physical barriers for long-term protection
- Termite baiting systems — monitored stations for ongoing management
- Pre-purchase timber pest inspections — before you buy
Why AusWide
- Led by a qualified field biologist and entomologist. Termite damage, borer damage and ordinary rot get confused for one another constantly, and getting the identification wrong is how people end up paying twice.
- Licensed and insured — Victorian pest control licence A023808, ABN 67 623 817 970, full public liability and professional indemnity cover.
- Melbourne-wide, genuinely local — our technicians live across the metro area. See where we work across Greater Melbourne.
- Documented OHS Management System since 2019 — the standard required for school, council and commercial contracts.
- We explain what we found. You get the reasoning, not just an invoice.
Termites in Melbourne
AusWide Pest Control proudly services homes and businesses across Melbourne and surrounding regions. Termites are one of the most common pests in Australia. According to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), approximately 32% of houses in Australia have some termite activity at a given point in time. Moreover, there is an 80% chance that your house is within 25m of a colony. This, coupled with the fact that termites can travel up to 100m in search of food, means that the odds are stacked against you. There’s a very small chance that you won’t ever have to deal with them. Luckily for you, AusWide experts are trained to deal with termite infestations as efficiently as possible. Termites are soft-bodied and white in color, often mistaken for ants. Termites cause the most damage to wooden structures. To attack these structures, they require favorable soil conditions and direct access to timber. Since most of the construction in Australia is wooden, the latter is not too hard to achieve. The most common type of termite infestations in Australia are those caused by Coptotermes Acinaciformis, a native species of subterranean termite. These termites, like ants, live in intricate colonies with different types of termites responsible for different roles. These include the worker termites which are white in color, soldiers which have brown heads and large jaws, the kings and queens (the kings pretty much roam around doing nothing while the queens handle the reigns to the colony). In the summertime, there’s a winged form of reproductive termites known as alates that emerge and leave the colony to spread further away and build new colonies. These alates seem very similar to winged ants, also called alates, but the latter generally emerge in late spring/early summer. One way to distinguish between the two is that winged ants usually emerge after it has rained. If you see any other signs of a termite infestation, which we will highlight later on, it is best that you reach out to us ASAP.What you can do
Termite activity can be detected by the following signs:- Paint peeling off the walls as it would if there was water damage
- Wooden or laminate floorboards buckling or seeming to shift
- Floorboards squeaking as you walk on them
- Wood that sounds hollow when you tap on it
- Mud tubes on walls or near trees close to your house
- Jammed doors or windows
- Piles of termite pellets that resemble salt or pepper
