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My wife said she kind of likes the look haha.

Zombified wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 3:43 pm I concur. Wood boring beetles.

Thank you as well.

Is there anything that should be done or is the damage done, replace the boards and call it a day?

crazy2medic wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 6:25 am Yes those are wood bores or whats left of their activity! Termites make dirt tube.

Thank you so very much.

Thought to call up a friend who I remembered did pest control and he said the same thing. And that it's not even worth treating because they probably have already moved on.

Really appreciate you all. Saved me a lot of time/money.

crazy2medic wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 6:25 am Yes those are wood bores or whats left of their activity! Termites make dirt tube.

Well this is a twist. I'm glad I posted here.

What should I do, if anything?

Also I forgot to mention, the fence is cedar.

Wow. Ok I'm a little flummoxed now. What is causing that?

There's also some damage in another part of the yard that looks old
So we've had this before. Probably a season or two prior.

The house was built new in 2017 and we are the first owners. Has slab foundation, brick and cement board veneer.

I don't recall a termite treatment flyer or anything when we closed on the house.

The thing that makes me wonder if this is an upsell job is that there's this long thing in the estimate about conducive conditions for termites, none of which apply to our house. They also tried to sell us on rodent sealing and a bunch of other stuff.

The actual quote is $500 for spraying the fence. Then $1100 to install Sentricon bait pods around the house perimeter and monitoring those for a year.

I got another quote for $1350 from another company for digging a trench around the house, filling with non attractive pesticide and then spraying the fence.

I'm not sure if I should be DIYing this or not. :)

Thanks for the info.

They are subterranean per the inspector. The newer looking damage is on a few boards in one section of the yard.

Thanks for the response.

I'll snap some pictures when I can get out there to do so. I'll have to ask my wife about what kind they were. I know we're supposed to get an inspection report from the company this evening.

Does it make sense to do the perimeter defense since there's evidence of termites in the yard or should a one time treatment be enough?

Couple weeks ago my wife noticed termites were eating a couple of our fence boards. We had our pest company come out and take a look.

Turns out they are feasting on several fence boards but no evidence at all that they're inside the house. We got a quote for $1600 to treat the fencing that comes with a 12 year warranty and also install perimeter defense around the house.

This seems high but I know we have a lot of fence to treat and I don't have anything to compare it to. Has anyone else had this done?