Post-Construction Termite Treatment in Dubai & Sharjah

Mud tubes are the clearest sign: pencil-width earth tunnels running up a foundation, an external wall, the back of a kitchen unit or the inside of a service duct. After them come door frames and skirting boards that sound hollow or give under a thumb, paint that blisters or ripples over timber, small piles of discarded wings on window sills after a swarm in the warmer months, and stored boxes or paper that crumble at the bottom.

In UAE villas the activity is often found first in the places that stay damp: under kitchen and bathroom units, along a wall where irrigation runs against it, behind wardrobes on an external wall and around a pergola or timber deck. Flying ants are commonly mistaken for termites; the survey settles which it is.

The technician traces the activity back towards the ground: where tubes enter the building, which walls and floors they cross, whether service entries, expansion joints or cracks in the slab are being used, and how the garden, irrigation and paving sit against the walls. The survey also records construction type, because a villa with a suspended floor, a slab-on-grade apartment and a compound wall are three different jobs.

From that comes the proposal: which walls and floors are drilled, how long the treated band around the outside is, where bait stations would go if baiting is chosen, and which conditions need correcting by you or your maintenance contractor so the treatment is not undermined.

Where termites are reaching the building through the soil under a slab, holes are drilled through the floor or the external paving at regular intervals along the affected walls and around penetrations, and termiticide is injected into the soil beneath so the treated zones join up into a continuous line. The holes are then sealed. Inside a home the drilling is planned around furniture and finishes, and we agree with you beforehand which rooms are done and in what order.

Outside, a band of soil along the external walls is treated by trenching or by rodding, so the building is ringed by treated ground rather than a line of separate spots. Planting beds against a wall are a common gap and are treated with care for what is growing in them. Where a garden, a pool deck or a boundary wall runs up to the building, the proposal says how the band crosses it.

Some buildings cannot reasonably be drilled: marble or stone floors throughout, water features against the walls, a newly finished garden, or an occupier who cannot have the work done indoors. For those we install bait stations in the ground around the building, and where activity is found, inside it. Termites carry the bait back to the colony. Baiting is slower than a soil treatment and depends on the stations being checked and serviced, which is part of the scope from the start.

Termites in a finished building almost always point to moisture or soil contact: irrigation wetting a wall, a slow leak under a sink, soil or planters banked above the damp-proof course, or timber stored against the house. The report names each one with its location. Treatment without those corrections is treatment working against the building, so we say so plainly rather than leave it for the follow-up visit to discover.