The Upper Hunter’s warm summers, seasonal rainfall and extensive areas of native and agricultural vegetation create genuine ongoing termite pressure for property owners across the shire. While the region’s inland location sometimes leads property owners to underestimate the termite risk, the conditions across much of the Upper Hunter are well suited to termite colony establishment and the damage caused by undetected activity in older rural and residential buildings can be extensive. Annual professional inspections are the most effective protection available.
Stuart and the team at Lake Macquarie Building Inspections carry out regular visual termite inspections across the Upper Hunter Shire and surrounding areas in accordance with Australian Standard AS 3660.2. We travel to all parts of the region and use thermal imaging on every inspection.
The Upper Hunter’s termite risk is concentrated in its warmer months but not absent in winter. Properties with timber in contact with or close to the ground, including older homes with hardwood stumps, rural fencing and outbuildings with earthen floors, provide direct access pathways for termites to reach structural timber without any above-ground indicator of their activity.
Rural properties throughout the shire that have not been regularly inspected and have no active termite management system face an elevated risk of significant structural damage from activity that may have been developing for years. The cost of managing an established infestation and repairing the damage it has caused is consistently greater than the cost of annual inspections that detect activity in its early stages.
Our Upper Hunter regular visual termite inspections cover all accessible areas of the property. For rural and multi-structure properties, the scope is adapted to include outbuildings and associated timber structures:
For rural Upper Hunter property owners, annual termite inspections that cover all timber-containing structures on the property provide the monitoring needed to detect activity across a larger and more complex site than a standard residential property. Our inspectors are experienced with rural property types and the specific termite risk factors associated with agricultural land use, rural timber structures and the native vegetation common across the region.
We provide a full range of pest and building inspection services across the Upper Hunter:
We carry out thermal imaging inspections across the Upper Hunter Shire and surrounding areas, including:
Scone | Muswellbrook | Aberdeen | Singleton | and all surrounding towns and localities within the Upper Hunter region
Contact Stuart and the team at Lake Macquarie Building Inspections to book your regular visual termite inspection.
