Newer slabs with irrigation running against them every week. Termite risk here is about moisture rather than age, so the inspection looks hard at beds, sprinkler placement and anything holding water at the foundation.
Forterra Termite Control is an inspection, installation, and monitoring service for Dallas–Fort Worth homes, built around the Sentricon® bait system from Corteva Agriscience. A licensed Certified Sentricon Specialist inspects the home free of charge, installs bait stations every 10–20 linear feet around the foundation (per label), and returns on a monitoring schedule for as long as you're a customer. Preventative installs run $300–$400; installs addressing active termites run $700–$800; ongoing monitoring is $29/month and keeps the termite warranty active. DFW termite swarm season peaks March–May, when most homeowners first see discarded wings near windows, the highest-value time to schedule an inspection. Service is performed under Texas Pest Control License TPCL #850046.
The Southlake office is where Forterra started in 2021 and it has not moved, so a property is serviced by the building that sets the standards rather than one following them at a distance. W-2 technicians, every visit logged, and the ★ 5.0 rating across 2,080 Google reviews sits on this office's own profile.
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 to install.
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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.”
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.
Your tech checks the full perimeter, foundation, slab seams, weep holes, wood-to-ground contact, moisture points, and any accessible crawlspace.
Mud tubes, frass, hollow wood, discarded wings, sagging wood. We photograph anything worth noting, active or historical.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Foraging termites find the stations and begin taking bait within weeks, and colony elimination usually follows over a few months. It is not an overnight kill and nobody should promise one. What you get immediately is monitoring, so activity is caught rather than discovered later.
The bait sits inside locked in-ground stations rather than being applied to soil or structure, so there is nothing exposed for a child or a dog to reach. On Southlake properties where children play across the lawn that placement is the whole point of the system.
A liquid treatment puts a chemical barrier in the soil around the structure and termites die crossing it. Sentricon uses stations that foraging workers carry bait back from, which targets the colony rather than only the ones that arrive. Barriers need a continuous run of soil to work, and landscaping frequently interrupts that.
We return and handle it at no additional charge under the warranty. On Southlake properties the recurring risk is usually moisture rather than structure, so if activity reappears we look at irrigation and bed depth as much as at the stations themselves.
On the regular monitoring cycle, every station around the building. Southlake properties often have gated access and established beds, so we agree entry and routing at installation and work around the planting rather than through it each visit.
No. The work is almost entirely outside, around the perimeter and at the slab line. Southlake properties often have gated side access and we will agree that at booking, so nobody needs to take a day off to let a technician through a gate.
Stations go into the soil about ten feet apart around the building, and caps sit flush enough to mow over. We work around established planting and irrigation lines rather than through them, and anything disturbed goes back. Nothing is dug up and left.
It covers re-treatment if activity reappears while the plan is active, with no additional charge for the visit or the work. It does not cover repairing damage that was already there, and no termite warranty we have seen does. We show you the wording rather than summarising it.
Quoted by property. On Southlake homes the perimeter is usually longer than the floor area suggests, because of wings, courtyards and attached structures, and that perimeter is what the station count follows.
On these properties, often yes. Heavy landscaping and hardscape make a continuous liquid barrier genuinely difficult to place, and an interrupted barrier does not do the job it is sold for. The bait system works around that, which is the honest reason to prefer it here.
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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.
