Tampa Historic Neighborhood Termite Treatment
Some of the oldest wood in Tampa is in neighborhoods small enough that nobody writes about them. Tampa Heights, West Tampa, Sulphur Springs, Beach Park, Davis Islands. We treat all of them, and every one of them is old enough to have termites worth taking seriously.
Call 727-462-0400The inspection is free. A certified operator comes out, looks at what you've actually got, and tells you straight. If it turns out you don't have termites, we'll tell you that too, and you're out nothing.
Tampa Heights
Thomas P. Kennedy called it the Highlands when he moved there, and it was developed as Tampa's first suburb in the 1880s. That makes it older than Seminole Heights, older than Hyde Park's build out, older than almost anything else standing in the city. Roughly seven thousand people live in it now.
West Tampa
Built around the cigar industry in the 1890s. Old West Tampa at the core is small, about two thousand people, and the housing stock is among the oldest in Hillsborough County. The Fort Homer W. Hesterly Armory went up here during the New Deal era.
Sulphur Springs
The mineral springs drew people here in the late 1800s and the trolley line to downtown made it a real neighborhood by the 1910s. The water tower is still the landmark. Around fifty seven hundred residents.
Beach Park
Colonel Harry Culbreath came down from South Carolina in the 1860s and ran oranges and cattle on this land. In 1911 T. Roy Young, William Trice, and the Mabry brothers subdivided it into Beach Park on the Bay, cutting man made canals and winding roads, and the houses followed through the twenties.
Davis Islands
Dredged and built during the 1920s land boom. Peter O. Knight Airport went in during the New Deal years. Century old construction sitting on made land surrounded by water.
What all five have in common
Old frame construction and a lot of it. Drywood termites live inside the wood itself rather than in the ground, so age and lumber volume are the whole equation. On the islands and along the bay you get subterranean termites too, coming up out of wet ground.
Fumigation works, and on a badly infested house I will tell you to do it. What it will not do is leave anything behind. The gas goes when the tarps go. We have done whole house tentless treatments since 2003, putting borate into the wood where it stays, and nothing is known to pull it out. Your house keeps working against them and you never move out.
Whichever way you go, ask whether the quote covers the whole house or just the spot where you found pellets. Most cover the spot.
The guarantee
If the bugs come back, so do we. You see something during your warranty year, you call, and we come back out and retreat at no additional cost. Keep it current and you can carry that for life.
Here's the honest reason not to sit on it. A drywood colony takes about five years to get big enough to throw swarmers, the winged ones that leave and start new colonies somewhere else in your house. Once that starts, one colony becomes several, and several becomes dozens. Caught early it's a straightforward job. Caught late, I've seen it take years to track them all down. That's not a sales line. That's just how they work.
Call and we will come look. The look costs you nothing.
Call 727-462-0400As long as GOD keeps making them, we'll keep killing them. You have a great day.
