Pest control for homes and businesses across metro Atlanta
Max Pest Solutions treats subterranean termites in Brookhaven, Georgia, working from the soil and the timber in contact with it. The first step is a free quote and an inspection of the crawlspace. Request a free quote.
Customized Pest Control Solutions
A wooded acre and a slab-foundation subdivision home need different work. In Brookhaven we quote after walking the property rather than from a price list, so what gets applied follows what the inspection actually finds.
Call Us NowPest Control for Homes and Businesses
The same technicians handle a kitchen ant trail and a restaurant health inspection. Commercial work in Brookhaven is scheduled around your trading hours and documented for auditors; residential work is scheduled around your family.
Call Us NowLong-Term Prevention and Follow-Up
Most treatments are one visit plus a check. If anything is still active when we come back to your Brookhaven property, we treat it again - that return visit is part of the job, not a second call-out.
Call Us NowBrookhaven has the highest termite exposure of any city in this service area, and the reason is construction rather than soil. Housing built before slab construction became standard sits on piers and foundation walls with sill plates, band joists and floor joists a short distance above soil that stays damp. Subterranean termites work from soil into timber, and that distance is the whole question.
Crawlspaces also hide the evidence. Mud tubes running up a pier or a foundation wall are the clearest sign there is, and nobody sees them because nobody goes under the house between inspections. Add plumbing of the same age developing slow weeps, and you have damp timber in a dark space directly above soil. That combination is why inspection here concentrates under the floor, and why a walk around the outside of the house is not an inspection at all.
| What | When it comes up here | What you notice first |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern subterranean termite | Active year round, swarming March to May | Mud tubes on foundation walls, discarded wings on sills after a swarm |
| Evidence before insects | Year round | Timber that sounds hollow, blistered paint, mud tubes running from soil to structure |
| Sill plates and band joists | Year round | Mud tubes on piers and foundation walls |
| Timber in ground contact under the floor | Year round | Evidence unseen between inspections |
| Slow plumbing weeps in the crawlspace | Year round | Damp timber sustaining activity |
Most of our work in Brookhaven is residential, and treatment is scheduled around your family rather than around us. Residential pest control
Commercial work is scheduled around your trading hours and documented after every visit, which is what an inspector or auditor asks for. Commercial pest control
Swarming is the visible event and usually happens on warm days from March into May, often after rain.
Feeding continues all year underground and inside timber, so activity is not seasonal even though swarms are.
Autumn and winter are good times for inspection, because access is easier and no swarm is needed to find evidence.
A colony does not die back over winter, and a season without a swarm is not evidence that one has gone.
That is where the evidence is. Mud tubes on a pier are the clearest sign available and nobody sees them from outside.
A season without a swarm is not evidence that a colony has gone. Feeding continues year round underground.
On crawlspace construction the exterior tells you very little. The inspection has to go underneath.
What our customers say
FAQ
Because it puts timber close to soil. Subterranean termites live in the ground and work upward into wood, so sill plates and floor joists a short distance above damp soil are a much shorter journey than the same timber above a slab. Housing of Brookhaven vintage is largely built that way.
No, and it is a common and costly assumption. Swarming is a visible event in spring; feeding continues all year underground and inside timber. A season without a swarm tells you nothing about whether a colony is present.
Structural pest control, including wood destroying organism work, is licensed at state level by the Georgia Department of Agriculture rather than by the county. Suwanee sits in Gwinnett County, whose environmental health department handles public health reporting rather than licensing.
The crawlspace, primarily. Piers and foundation walls checked for mud tubes, sill plates and band joists probed where accessible, and any area kept damp by a plumbing weep looked at closely. An inspection that stops at the exterior has not examined the part of a Brookhaven house that matters.
