From the historic wood-frame homes off Old Pompano to the canal-front condos in Cypress Bend, we treat every termite species established in Broward County — including the Hallandale-origin Formosan and the newer Asian subterranean hybrid. Free inspection. Honest scope. Warranty in writing.
Three biologically distinct termite groups are established in Broward County. Each leaves a different signature and demands a different treatment. The FDACS-13645 inspection identifies which species is active before any chemistry is recommended.
The most common South Florida termite. Builds pencil-thick mud tubes climbing slab edges, stem walls, and pier blocks. Colonies live in soil and need continuous moisture contact — they cannot survive in dry wood alone.
Lives its entire life inside the wood it eats — no soil contact, no mud tubes. Signature is six-sided sand-like frass pellets piling on floors, sills, and surfaces below infested framing. Common in Florida pine attics and door frames.
Aggressive invasive subterranean first detected in Hallandale, just south of Pompano. Colonies reach several million workers and consume wood up to ten times faster than natives. Will build carton nests above ground without soil contact.
Some companies push fumigation because that’s all they offer. Others push baiting because that’s their margin. We carry every approved Florida method and pick the one that actually fits your structure, infestation, and budget.
WDO-level inspection used for real-estate closings and renewal warranties. Includes attic, crawl space, slab perimeter, fence/deck, and tree assessment.
View inspection detailsThe only treatment that eliminates 100% of a drywood colony, including hidden satellite chambers.
Tent fumigationLocalized XT-2000 or Termidor® foam injection for confined drywood activity — no tarp, no 3-day vacate.
No-tent treatmentAlways Active in-ground bait stations on a renewable annual contract — the gold standard for subterranean and Formosan colony elimination.
Sentricon®Non-repellent Termidor® or Altriset® applied around the slab perimeter. Long-residual protection for new builds and remodels.
Liquid barrierFlorida Building Code-compliant soil treatment poured before the slab — the cheapest termite insurance you’ll ever pay for.
Pre-constructionCoarse, sand-sized fecal pellets in small mounds under window sills, baseboards, or door frames. Drywood signature.
Pencil-thick earthen tubes running up the slab, stucco, or pier blocks. Subterranean signature — they need that moisture lifeline.
Translucent wings shed in piles near lamps, pool screens, and window tracks after spring rain — evidence of a recent swarm.
Knock on a baseboard or door jamb. Termites eat heartwood and leave a thin veneer — it sounds papery instead of solid.
Subsurface galleries trap moisture under finish coats, producing bubbles that look like water damage but appear inside, dry areas.
Formosan-specific: an old ficus, oak, or palm that thuds hollow at the base and shows wet-looking soil at the root flare.
Attic, slab perimeter, crawl space, deck, tree base. We identify the species and write it in the report — no species, no scope.
Three options when applicable (e.g. tent vs no-tent vs bait), with linear-foot pricing and warranty terms in plain language.
Performed by Florida-licensed Certified Operator. Tent crews load Vikane® on-site; bait stations are GPS-logged for the warranty.
Annual re-inspection. If termites return within the warranty window, we retreat at no charge — it’s a written, transferable guarantee.
Every inspection runs from a single Pompano Beach operations base. We organize the city into three response tiers based on drive-time and operational density — every block within Pompano gets either same-day or 48-hour response. No outsourcing, no rotating subcontractors.
| Pompano Termite Control | National pest chain | |
|---|---|---|
| Same technician each visit | Yes | Rotates |
| Species written in inspection report | Always | Sometimes |
| Tent fumigation, Sentricon®, & no-tent under one roof | Yes | Often subcontracted |
| Formosan / Asian-sub specific protocol | Yes | Generic |
| Local phone — answered in Pompano | (954) 545-2464 | Call center |
| Transferable warranty in writing | Yes | Sometimes |
| No-pressure quote · no upsell scripts | Yes | Quota-driven |
Pompano Beach sits inside the Florida termite belt where four economically destructive species are established year-round. The native Reticulitermes flavipes — Eastern subterranean — runs colonies of 60,000 to 1 million workers, builds the pencil-thick mud tubes most homeowners learn to recognize first, and accounts for the majority of subterranean inspection findings west of the Intracoastal. The invasive Coptotermes formosanus — Formosan subterranean — first established in Florida at Hallandale Beach less than two miles south of the Pompano border, runs colonies of several million workers, consumes wood up to ten times faster than the native, and builds above-ground carton nests inside wall voids that don't require continuous soil contact. The Cryptotermes brevis — West Indian drywood — and Incisitermes snyderi — Southeastern drywood — round out the drywood pair, both establishing inside roof framing, attic trusses, barrel-tile roof voids, original interior trim, and any wood member that holds the warm, dry air spaces drywood colonies prefer. The species identification written into Section A of your FDACS-13645 inspection report drives every downstream chemistry decision — Sentricon® and Termidor® for the subterranean side, Vikane® tent fumigation or no-tent Termidor® foam for the drywood side, and a combined scope when both are present. A pre-treatment inspection that does not identify the species is not a real inspection.
Three early signs tell you what you are looking at. Drywood frass — tiny six-sided fecal pellets about 1 mm long with rounded ends — piles in small mounds beneath pinhole kick-out holes in window sills, baseboards, door bucks, attic framing, and the underside of any wood trim. Pellets range from light tan to dark brown depending on the wood the colony is consuming and roll between your fingers without crumbling. Subterranean mud tubes — pencil-thick earth-and-saliva tunnels — run vertically up foundation walls, slab edges, garage stem walls, hose-bib penetrations, AC condensate-line stubs, and any wood-to-soil contact point. Fresh tubes feel damp and break open to expose live workers. The third sign is swarmers — winged reproductive termites — appearing at thresholds, lamp bases, pool screens, and window casings after spring rain. Drywood swarms run roughly March through June, subterranean swarms run February through May, and Formosan swarms run mid-April through late June with peak flights during the first hot, humid evening after sundown. Do not vacuum or sweep frass piles before the inspector arrives — leave the pile intact so the species can be confirmed and the kick-out hole above it located. The original sample is forensic evidence that drives the chemistry recommendation.
Whole-house tent fumigation with Vikane® (sulfuryl fluoride) is the right call for confirmed drywood activity that has reached multiple rooms, the whole attic truss network, or any location the inspector cannot reach with localized injection. The 72-hour cycle reaches every hidden satellite chamber the colony has established and eliminates the entire infestation in one mobilization at a target concentration of 16 to 32 oz⋅hr per 1000 cubic feet. No-tent localized treatment with Termidor® foam or XT-2000 borate-and-permethrin solution is the right call when drywood activity is confined to a single rafter, a single room, or a localized trim section — the inspector drills representative access holes at 8-to-12-inch spacing along the affected member, injects directly into the gallery network, and seals each hole with color-matched filler. Sentricon® Always Active in-ground baiting is the right call for subterranean activity and for any property under continuous monitoring contract — stations install at grade on 15-to-20-foot perimeter spacing (8-to-12-foot for documented Formosan findings), workers locate the cellulose bait through normal foraging, carry the noviflumuron-laced matrix back to the colony, and interrupt the molting cycle until the queen and the entire worker population are eliminated over a 60-to-120-day window. Termidor® HE non-repellent liquid soil barrier applied at 0.06% active ingredient with a 4-inch trench depth at the slab perimeter is the right call when a property needs immediate residual protection at the building line in addition to the bait program — Termidor® is non-repellent, so workers tunnel through it, carry the chemistry on their cuticles, and transfer it to nestmates through the normal mutual-grooming behavior of the colony. Mixed-species findings get combined scopes in a single mobilization. Pre-construction is a separate, simpler decision — phase-one Termidor® HE applied to footings, grade beams, and the slab footprint before the pour, phase-two perimeter re-treatment at backfill once the wall envelope is closed, all documented on a Florida Building Code Soil Treatment Report filed with the local building department.
The treatment that wins on a 1958 wood-frame heritage cottage off Old Pompano is almost never the treatment that wins on a 1992 CBS (concrete-block-and-stucco) ranch in Cresthaven, and neither is the treatment that wins on a 2018 mid-rise condo in Cypress Bend. CBS shells common to mid-century Pompano construction route subterranean treatment to the slab perimeter, garage stem wall, bath-trap access panels, plumbing chase expansion joints, AC condensate-line penetrations, hose-bib soil contacts, and any added Florida-room or screen-enclosure framing — all standard placement points for either Sentricon® stations or Termidor® HE trench-and-treat. Wood-frame heritage construction routes treatment toward preservation-grade methods that do not drill, inject, or surface-apply chemistry to original heritage members — the inspector plans access points on non-original wood and recommends Sentricon® baiting or whole-structure tent fumigation over invasive injection. Shared-wall condo and townhome construction routes treatment through HOA coordination because the truss bottom-chord network and the rafter system span multiple units inside a single firewall envelope — a single-unit drywood finding can require coordinated multi-unit treatment access along the shared barrel-tile roof void with 7-to-14-day adjacent-owner notice per the standard HOA bylaws. Commercial and light-industrial pads in the Andrews Industrial District route treatment through minimum-disruption methods — at-grade Sentricon® installation, after-hours injection, and tent fumigation reserved only for single-tenant structures where a 72-hour displacement can be coordinated through the property manager. Every neighborhood profile shapes the recommendation, and any quote that ignores the building stock is a quote written by the chemistry vendor, not by the inspector.
A legitimate Florida termite treatment ships with the Florida-licensed Certified Operator signed inspection-and-treatment report, the chemistry-application log (active ingredient, percent concentration, gallons or stations placed, linear footage treated), and a transferable annual warranty certificate that runs with the property through ownership transfer. The Certified Operator license — issued by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) under chapter 482 — is the only credential that legally permits termite chemistry application in the state; verify the FDACS license number on every quote you receive. UF/IFAS (University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences) maintains the protocol research the entire industry follows for Formosan-specific tighter station spacing, Cryptotermes brevis identification, and post-treatment monitoring cadence. A warranty that promises "retreatment if termites return" without specifying the species, the treatment scope, the annual re-inspection cycle, and the chemistry-application log is a warranty that quietly excludes whatever it doesn't say. Real-estate WDO (wood-destroying organism) reports under FHA-203, VA, and conventional closing protocols document termite plus four other organisms — fungi, beetles, carpenter ants, and carpenter bees — using the standardized inspection form. Always read what your warranty covers, what it excludes (often: pre-existing damage, moisture intrusion, structural defect, organism other than the named species), and what triggers transfer to a new owner.
South Florida termite activity runs twelve months a year but the swarm-and-establish cycle peaks during spring and early summer. February through May is the native subterranean swarm window — pencil-thick mud tubes and discarded wings are the strongest pre-establish signal. March through June is the drywood swarm window — kick-out hole pellet piles appear on hardwood floors and window sills within days of the swarm landing. Mid-April through late June is the Formosan swarm window — peak flights happen on the first hot humid evening after sundown and the airborne reproductive can disperse half a mile from the parent colony. The early-fall window (September through October) is the secondary swarm peak for subterranean species and the best time to schedule preventative baiting installation, because the foraging-and-feeding cycle is most active just before winter dormancy and bait consumption rates run highest. A property with a Sentricon® program already in place captures the reproductive before it establishes a satellite colony; a property without one waits to detect the establishment after the next inspection cycle. The economics favor prevention by a wide margin — a single Formosan colony left untreated for 24 months can drop $20,000 to $50,000 of structural-repair cost on a single-family home, while an annual Sentricon® contract runs roughly $280 to $480 depending on linear footage and tier. Per UF/IFAS the invasive Formosan now accounts for roughly 25% of all Florida structural infestations and continues to expand its range northward along the I-95 corridor.
Every Pompano Beach property — heritage cottage, CBS ranch, mid-rise condo, waterfront estate, commercial pad — gets the same workflow from us: a free pre-treatment inspection that identifies the species before the chemistry is selected, a written scope with linear-foot or station-count pricing in plain language, treatment completed by a Florida-licensed Certified Operator under FDACS chapter 482, and an annual warranty re-inspection cycle that protects the property in writing. The phone number is local, the technician is the same one each visit, and the quote does not contain "starting at" placeholder pricing. See the full menu of 22 termite services, browse the 48 Pompano Beach service areas, or schedule a free inspection when you are ready.
The three earliest signs in South Florida homes are: (1) tiny piles of sand-like fecal pellets called frass near baseboards or window sills — the telltale signature of drywood termites; (2) pencil-thick mud tubes running up foundation walls, slab edges, or piers — left by native subterranean termites; (3) discarded translucent wings around lamps and pool screens after spring rains, evidence of a recent swarm.
For an average Pompano single-family home, whole-structure tent fumigation runs $1.00–$2.00 per square foot ($1,500–$3,000 for most homes), Sentricon® baiting installation is $1,200–$3,800 plus roughly $280/year monitoring, and localized no-tent drywood spot treatments typically range $500–$1,800 depending on the number of access points. Every quote we send shows the linear footage, station count, and warranty term — no “starting at” pricing.
Yes. The Formosan subterranean termite was first detected in Florida in Hallandale, just south of Pompano Beach, in the early 1980s. Asian subterranean termites established later in Broward and continue to spread northward. UF/IFAS projects roughly half of all South Florida structures could be at risk from these invasive “super termites” by 2040 — making a baited perimeter and annual inspection the smart-money play for any Pompano property built before 2010.
Almost never. Standard Florida homeowners policies exclude termite damage as preventable through routine maintenance. That’s why an annual inspection plus an active warranty is the cheapest insurance most homeowners will ever buy — and the only one that actually pays out when the colony comes back.
Plan on vacating the structure for 24 to 72 hours. We typically tent on day one, gas overnight with sulfuryl fluoride (Vikane®), aerate on day two, and clear the home for re-entry on day three after the licensed fumigator confirms residual gas is below 1 ppm. We provide a printable checklist for prepping food, plants, and medications before the tarp goes up.
Drywood termites complete their life cycle inside the wood — no soil contact needed — and survive on moisture they extract from cellulose. Subterranean termites must stay tied to soil moisture, so they build the protective mud tubes you see climbing foundations. The treatment strategy is completely different: drywoods are eliminated by whole-structure fumigation or wood-injection spot treatment; subterraneans are controlled with soil-applied liquid barriers or in-ground bait stations like Sentricon®.
In Pompano Beach, annual is the minimum and biennial is standard for warranty maintenance. If you’ve had any prior activity, you live near mature trees or canal-front humidity, or you’re inside a Sentricon® warranty, we re-inspect every 12 months automatically.
Call us before you spray anything from the hardware store — a DIY product on a drywood gallery will scatter the colony into other rooms. The free inspection will tell you exactly what species you have and what (if anything) needs treating.