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Max Pest Solutions treats subterranean termites in Dunwoody, Georgia, working from the soil and the timber in contact with it. The first step is a free quote and an inspection. Request a free quote.
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A wooded acre and a slab-foundation subdivision home need different work. In Dunwoody we quote after walking the property rather than from a price list, so what gets applied follows what the inspection actually finds.
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The same technicians handle a kitchen ant trail and a restaurant health inspection. Commercial work in Dunwoody is scheduled around your trading hours and documented for auditors; residential work is scheduled around your family.
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Most treatments are one visit plus a check. If anything is still active when we come back to your Dunwoody property, we treat it again - that return visit is part of the job, not a second call-out.
Call Us NowDunwoody housing is at the age where the things that keep water away from a structure have begun to fail, and for termites that matters more than any single construction feature. Gutters overflow, downpipe extensions sag, caulk cracks, flashing lifts, and forty or fifty years of landscaping has raised grade against walls that were built to sit clear of soil.
Each of those creates a conducive condition: damp soil against the structure, or soil in direct contact with timber where a gap was designed. Combined with mature planting that hides foundations from view, the result is a house where the evidence is both more likely to occur and less likely to be seen. Inspection here is largely a moisture survey, and the most useful recommendations tend to be gutter, grade and planting changes rather than anything applied to the soil.
| 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 |
| Grade raised against walls over decades | Year round | Soil contact where a gap was designed |
| Overflowing gutters and sagged extensions | Year round | Persistently damp soil at one elevation |
| Mature planting hiding the foundation | Year round | Evidence unlikely to be seen |
Most of our work in Dunwoody 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.
Decades of landscaping and mulch top-ups remove the gap an inspection depends on.
That corner is where conditions favour activity and where to look first.
Mature planting hides exactly the surface where mud tubes would appear.
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Grade raised against the structure. Decades of landscaping, mulch top-ups and settling bring soil into contact with siding and trim that were built to sit clear of it, which removes the gap an inspection relies on and gives a colony a concealed route. Lowering grade back is often the single most useful recommendation.
As much about looking for the conditions that favour them. On this housing that means where water sits, where grade has risen, and where planting hides the foundation. Finding a conducive condition early is more useful than finding activity later.
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.
Enough to expose the foundation, yes, rather than removing it. A clear band at the base of the wall lets mud tubes be seen and lets soil dry between waterings. Both matter, and neither requires giving up the planting.
