Termite Control in Southlake, TX
Liquid treatment usually costs more upfront, and keeping its warranty takes an annual renewal, while Sentricon spreads the cost with stations in the ground. With termite control in Southlake, your exterminator recommends whichever suits the structure.
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Why choose Forterra for termites in Southlake
Termites around a well-built Southlake home follow moisture, and sprinklers hitting the foundation keep that moisture coming all season. Raised beds over the slab line, wood edging touching the soil and mulch right against the brick give a colony covered routes to the wall. Forterra flags those landscape conditions for you to fix, inspects the whole yard rather than the slab alone, and seals entry points with the Zero Gap System™. Licensed TPCL #850046, with the money-back guarantee.
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Termite work for Southlake homes runs from the Southlake office, where sandier soil and daily irrigation mean the inspection covers the yard as well as the foundation.
Southlake, TX 76092
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Why Termites Thrive in Southlake
Southlake homes are mostly newer and built to better standards than the older stock elsewhere in our territory, which makes the termite story here about moisture rather than age. Subterranean termites need damp soil, and heavily irrigated landscaping running against a foundation supplies it every week of the year. A well-built slab with a sprinkler head throwing water at the wall is a more attractive target than an older slab that stays dry.
The other local factor is landscaping depth. Beds built up above the slab line, timber edging left in contact with soil, and mulch piled against brick all give a colony a covered route to the structure. Those are the things we flag at the inspection, because they are usually fixable by the homeowner and they change the risk more than any product does. Treatment is Sentricon or a liquid barrier, chosen by what the structure needs.
Sentricon suits a lot of Southlake properties for a practical reason. Heavy landscaping and hardscape make a continuous liquid barrier difficult to place properly around some of these homes, and a barrier with a gap in it is not a barrier. We will say which the structure actually needs rather than defaulting to whichever is easier for us.
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Kill the colony. Not the lawn.
Most termite companies spray a liquid barrier around the foundation, gallons of termiticide pumped into the soil, recharged every few years. Sentricon is a different idea: let the termites find the bait, carry it home, and take out the whole colony themselves. It's quieter, cleaner, and it actually ends the problem.
“We picked Sentricon because it's the only termite method we'd install on our own house. A liquid barrier protects a slab; a bait system ends a colony. And when a customer cancels, a liquid treatment is already in the ground, we can't take it back. Sentricon monitoring is something we provide, every visit, for as long as you're with us. That's the kind of service we want to stand behind.”
Two phases. Usually one visit.
Inspection first, always free, always in writing. If you decide to move forward, the install typically happens on the same visit. About 45 minutes to place, scan, and diagram the stations.
Inspection
- 01
Walk the foundation.
Your tech checks the full perimeter, foundation, slab seams, weep holes, wood-to-ground contact, moisture points, and any accessible crawlspace.
- 02
Look for evidence.
Mud tubes, frass, hollow wood, discarded wings, sagging wood. We photograph anything worth noting, active or historical.
- 03
Written report with photos.
You get a plain-language report: what was found, what it means, whether a Sentricon install is worth doing, and what it would cost. Zero pressure to sign anything on the spot.
Installation
- 01
Place stations every 10–20 feet.
Sentricon stations go into the soil around your foundation, every 10–20 linear feet, per the product label. No drilling into slabs, no trenching, no landscaping damage.
- 02
Scan & diagram.
Each station is scanned into our system with GPS and a hand-drawn site diagram. On our next visit, we know exactly where every one is, even if your mulch covered them up.
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Load with Always Active™ bait.
Stations ship pre-loaded with bait termites prefer over wood. No waiting period, no "monitoring-only" mode, the system is working the moment it's in the ground.
- ✓Free inspection with written report & photos
- ✓Sentricon station install (typically 8–15 stations)
- ✓Annual monitoring, re-baiting when necessary
- ✓Forterra-backed warranty (active while monitored)
- ✓Free station maintenance, broken, moved, re-diagrammed
- ✓Re-treatment guarantee if termites return
Protected for as long as you're a customer.
Let's be straight: our Sentricon warranty is a standard retreatment warranty, not a damage-repair warranty. It covers termite control, not fixing boards. Here's exactly what that means.
- Free re-treatment if termites appear while you're on monitoring
- Ongoing maintenance of every station (broken, moved, re-baited)
- Repositioning stations for new construction, pools, additions
- Money-back if three re-treatments can't resolve the issue: we refund your most recent payment
- Repair of wood damage caused by termites (structural, cosmetic)
- Protection after you cancel monthly monitoring, warranty ends with payment
- Homes without Sentricon stations installed by Forterra
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Termite pricing has two pieces: a one-time install, plus ongoing monitoring. Everything else, station maintenance, re-baiting, warranty coverage, is already in the monthly fee. No surprise charges.
- 1–2 hours on site
- Written report with photos
- No obligation to install
- $300–$400 preventative install
- $700–$800 if active termites are present
- Discounted further if you already have Sentricon stations installed, we can take over maintenance
- Scheduled monitoring visits
- Station maintenance & re-baiting included
- Forterra-backed warranty stays active with payment
Southlake Termite Control FAQ
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It changes where the colony is rather than whether you have one. Sandier ground lets subterranean termites travel considerably further from a nest than heavy clay allows, which puts a great deal of distance between where they are living and where the damage shows up. An inspection around Southlake therefore has to search wider than one sized for clay conditions ever would.
Yes. Build quality has almost no bearing on a colony that is already in the soil, and subterranean termites arrive from underneath rather than through a wall. What a newer Southlake house gives you is sound framing and fewer ways in, so anything found early stays a treatment rather than a repair. Irrigation against the foundation matters far more than age.
A considerable one. Sprinklers running against a foundation every few days keep the soil at the perimeter consistently damp, and that is precisely the condition subterranean termites need to work close to a structure. On a landscaped Southlake property it does more to attract a colony than the age of the building itself does, which surprises a good many owners.
At the foundation line where planting and irrigation meet the wall, at any point where a deck, pergola or landscape timber touches the ground near the house, and around the base of stone veneer. On a Southlake property those junctions are numerous, which is why an inspection out here takes longer than it would on a compact suburban lot.
No, and anyone implying it does is overselling. Termite work goes after a colony in the ground and uses different products, different placement and a different schedule entirely. Ants, scorpions, spiders and everything else that gets indoors belong to the recurring plan. Many Southlake households carry both, quoted and scheduled as two separate pieces of work on one account.
Your exterminator walks the perimeter, the foundation line and whatever they can reach beneath or around the building, looking for tubes, damaged timber, moisture and anything inviting a colony closer. You get the findings in writing afterwards, covering what is active now and what is setting the property up for trouble later. The second list is usually the cheaper one to act on.
It is. Any return of activity means a re-treatment at our cost, and should three of those fail, the money-back guarantee returns your latest payment. Forterra stands behind the damage warranty on the plan itself rather than handing it to a manufacturer, and few companies in this area offer one.
Barely at all. Nearly everything happens outdoors along the foundation, and any indoor work is usually a garage, a utility room or one section of wall. We tell you which spaces your exterminator needs, and for about how long, before the day arrives, so nothing catches anyone at a Southlake property off guard on the morning.
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Start with a free inspection.
We'll take it from there.
A Certified Sentricon Specialist at your door in about two business days. Inspection is free and in writing. If Sentricon isn't right for your home, we'll tell you.
- ✓Free termite inspection
- ✓Sentricon install $300–$800
- ✓Ongoing monitoring & warranty
- ✓Free station maintenance
- ✓Free re-treatment
- ✓Annual or month-to-month terms