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Yes! Starting January 1, 2015 ALL new VA/FHA loans would be required to perform and complete a termite treatment at the home.  This requires a form to be filled out by the builder (NPMA Form 99A) which states that the builder has completed a termite treatment at the home, as well as a form from a licensed pest control company (NPMA Form 99B). The Form 99B is completed by the licensed pest control company stating that they did in fact perform and complete a termite treatment at the home.  Although the rule was set to expire in May of 2018, many lending institutions are upholding this rule and are still requiring that homes be treated.  https://npmapestworld.org/resourcecenter/hud/

Yes! We perform and complete hundreds of WDIR’s on a yearly basis.  The commonly used form that the lender is looking for is the NPMA-33 form.  When we inspect your home, we are looking for Wood Destroying Insects ONLY.  We will not note any other insects or rodents.  The purpose of this form is to let the lender know if there is any termite activity at the time of the inspection.  An important tip to remember or know is that only a company who is licensed in the Wood Destroying Organisms Category (Category 301) with the Colorado Department of Agriculture should complete your inspection for you.  If you should hire a company who is not currently licensed in the Wood Destroying Organisms Category, and they find evidence of termites, they will not be able to make any recommendations for treatment or how much a treatment should cost. They will only be able to advise you to contact another company who is licensed to treat termites.  Mug-A-Bug would be able to provide you with both the written report as well as a termite bid proposal, if we should find wood destroying insects at the property.

Yes, if the warranty is up to date and each optional renewal has been paid in full, Mug-A-Bug will transfer your warranty over to the new owner of the home.

All our termite treatments come with a one-year warranty from the date of service.  We also send our annual renewal warranty options during the winter months (January-April) so our customers can decide if they want to renew and extend their warranty for another year.  The products that we use for termite treatments will start to break-down over time (roughly 6-8 years) and it may be recommended to do another treatment, but we leave that up to our customers to decide.

If your next-door neighbor has termites at their home, that only confirms that you have termites in your area. It does not automatically mean your house currently has termites, or that you will get termites.  It only means that your home is a greater risk of getting termites or needing a termite treatment in the future.  We would advise you to contact our office to schedule an appointment with one of our termite technicians to come out and do a free inspection for you.  Remember, only the distance of your home to your neighbors will reveal how far active termites are from your home.

Yes and No. Yes, for the scenario in which you are remodeling, and you found what you thought was termite damage or termite activity, or your neighbor has just been treated and you want to know if your house has termites. No, in the case that you request a termite inspection and you require a written report that will be used for a real estate transaction, there will be a charge for that written inspection.  The cost deciding factor will be if you need something in writing which states yes/no as to whether at the time of the inspection we found evidence of termites or other wood destroying insects/organisms.

As we mentioned before, the most commonly found termite species in Colorado is the Eastern Subterranean Termite. You may see visible evidence of termites which includes: mud tubes, flying or swarming termites in a certain room of your home, small pin like holes in drywall, crumbling or damaged wood, or active live termites when removing or opening walls. Termite swarming season normally happens once a year in the Spring and is usually after a “warm” rain or spring snow, in which the temperatures will climb to much warmer temperatures, especially during spring snow storms in March or April.

Termite swarmers (flying termites) are most commonly mistaken as “flying ants”. There are two huge factors that will help easily identify if you have a swarming termite or if you have flying ants, which are also called swarmers.  The first factor is that swarming termites will have a single body (think long grain of rice) and swarming ants will have a “pinched” waist or a curvy figure.  Termite swarmers also have one (1) set of wings that are equal in length and size.  Swarming/flying ants also have wings, but they have two (2) sets of wings that are not equal in length or size, as the front pair of wings is longer and bigger then the back set of wings, which are shorter and much smaller in size. Visit http://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/insects/termites-5-532/ for a quick visual reference and termite facts.  Visit our termite page (https://www.mugabugpestcontrol.com/pest-services-colorado-springs/termite-control/termite-info/) for more pictures and information regarding the different type of classes/workers of the termite colony.

Absolutely! (http://www.termite.com/termites/termites-colorado.html) Here in Colorado Springs we have the Eastern Subterranean Termite, which means that the termites are underground, and most of our homeowners and customers did not even know that they had termites until they opened a wall during remodel/construction, or they found a termite mud-tube (think subway train system) about the width of a pencil climbing up their wall or foundation.  There are certain zip codes or areas of the City that seem to be more prone to termites than others.  We believe this to be based on the different water tables, soil content, and moisture levels.  80918 and 80917 are two of our most popular zip codes when it comes to finding live and active termites.