Wood Destroying Insects

Did You Know That Bugs Are Eating Your House?

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / May 5, 2022 /

By Brenda MasseSpecial Contributor How’s that for clickbait? But for real, bugs could be eating your house. It is swarming season for wood-destroying insects (WDIs), and despite how awful that sounds, it’s kind of a good thing. Termites and other WDIs can quietly munch on your home for years before you know they’re there. If…

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The Not-So-Great Down Under: A Day in The Crawl Space

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / August 26, 2020 /

Every week, the detail-oriented folks at Green Scene Home Inspections will give CandysDirt.com readers an education in inspection. Want to see what they see? Tune in for “Upon Closer Inspection.” Pier-and-beam foundations are pretty common in the North Texas area, in neighborhoods with older homes. When you have a pier-and beam foundation, you have space —…

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