Signs you need treatment now
If an inspection has already confirmed live activity — or you’ve personally seen mud tubes, swarmers, or damaged wood — treatment is the next step. We treat this urgency seriously without exaggerating it: an active colony causes ongoing, compounding damage, but panic doesn’t change the right course of action, which is still to match the treatment to what’s actually there.
Treatment options, matched to severity
Spot or localized treatment addresses a contained, isolated area of activity. A soil or perimeter barrier treatment creates a continuous chemical zone around the foundation for broader, ongoing protection — see our soil treatment page for the full method breakdown. For severe, widespread infestations that spot treatment can’t resolve, whole-structure tenting/fumigation may be necessary — see our tenting page for the full process and timeline. Bait systems offer ongoing, lower-disruption prevention rather than an active-infestation response — see our baiting systems page.
What a treatment visit looks like
After the inspection identifies the extent of activity, we walk you through the recommended method in plain terms, give you a fixed quote, and schedule the work. Most spot and soil treatments are completed in a single visit; tenting requires more advance coordination given the multi-day timeline.
What treatment costs
Cost varies by method — spot treatment costs less than a soil/perimeter barrier, which costs less than full tenting — and scales with your home’s square footage and the severity of the infestation. Massachusetts pest control companies, us included, typically quote after a free or low-cost inspection rather than guessing over the phone with a flat rate.
Termites are genuinely common in Massachusetts homes: older housing stock across Greater Brockton, humid summers, and wood-to-soil contact in older foundations all contribute. That’s the normal baseline reason inspection and treatment matter here, not an alarmist claim.