In Begur many homes spend half the year shut up and the termite warning comes late. We locate the activity with audiotermes and set up a bait station system that needs nobody to be at home.
Visual assessment visit included, at no cost and with no obligation. The technical study with audiotermes, which confirms every point of damage, is quoted separately and you decide with the figure in front of you. We work Monday to Saturday.
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A house in Begur shut up since October can reach May with a termite colony working inside without anyone having seen it. An empty home raises no alarm: the damage is discovered on opening up, when spring has already set the activity racing. The bait system with TP8 biocide resolves that scenario, because the bait stations keep acting with the house shut and the checks are concentrated in the periods with access.
The stone houses of the nucli antic, Begur's old quarter, hide more wood than they show. Behind the limewashed wall there are wooden lintels over doors and windows, beams holding up the floor structures and staircases with a wooden stringer resting on the ground floor. The subterranean termite arrives from the ground through the wall itself, takes advantage of the joints in the masonry and reaches the lowest pieces first, which also tend to be the least looked at.
In the coves the profile changes but the risk remains. The villas of Sa Riera and Aiguablava were built for living outdoors: porches on wooden posts, pergolas over the terrace, outdoor decking and railings finishing off the garden. A good part of that wood rests on the ground or sits a hand's breadth above it, and on plots with irrigation and pine shade the moisture in the soil stays steady all year round.
Begur's outdoor joinery works against the sea. The tramuntana, the salt air and the sun open up the grain of shutters, blinds and entrance doors, and that cracked wood holds the water of the autumn rains. Weather-beaten joinery does not by itself attract the termite, which comes from the subsoil, but it offers soft, damp cellulose right at the point where the frame meets the wall.
And then there is the calendar of a holiday home. Shut from October to spring, nobody walks on the parquet that is starting to sound hollow or sees the mud tube climbing a corner of the garage. The colony works those months without interruption, and the warning comes all at once on opening up for Easter or for the summer. That is why the check on opening the house is the most sensible habit a Begur owner can take up.
Zone by zone, what was built, what wood sits inside and where the insect gets in. It is the reading our technicians make before deciding where the check starts.
| Zone of Begur | Dominant construction | Wood present | Way in | First sign |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| el nucli antic | Stone houses among narrow streets | Lintels, beams and indoor staircases | Wall joints up from the ground | Soil in the lintel recess |
| Sa Riera | Holiday villas above the cove | Porches, pergolas and outdoor decking | Porch wood resting on the soil | Soft wood at the foot of a post |
| Aiguablava | Plots with gardens under the pines | Outdoor joinery and wooden railings | Irrigation damp right against the facade | Loose wings on opening the house |
Source: ERRADICAT technical criteria from own work in the province of Girona · retrieved on 4 September 2026.
You do not need to see an insect. These three are what we actually find when we reach a home, and all three can be checked without tools.
Mud tubes the width of a pencil climbing the wall, the skirting board or the inside of a wardrobe. They are the tunnel the subterranean termite builds to shield itself from light and dry air. If they are damp inside, there is activity right now.
In spring the colony releases winged reproducers. They fly little, shed their wings quickly and pile up on a window sill or by a terrace door. Finding wings indoors means a mature colony nearby.
The termite eats the inside and spares a thin surface layer, so the element looks intact. Tap it with your knuckles and the sound changes from solid to hollow. On flooring it feels like a board that gives underfoot.
In Begur the spring flight is usually discovered late: the wings stay inside the shut-up houses and turn up piled on window sills and floors the day the home is opened.
Subterranean termite Reticulitermes spp.
Activity: from March to June · Peak: April and May.
Drywood termite Kalotermes flavicollis
Activity: from August to October · Peak: September.
These dates are indicative windows. Flight depends on temperature and humidity, so each year it starts earlier or later: if you see winged insects outside these months, it is still a reason for an inspection.
Source: Technical literature of the timber sector · retrieved on 21 July 2026.
We start by listening. The audiotermes amplifies the sound inside the wood and locates activity without lifting the floor or drilling anything, and from that comes a floor plan of the property with every point of damage marked.
Then the stations go in. We place indoor bait stations over the located sources and outdoor bait stations spread around the building's perimeter, loaded with bait for subterranean termites, a TP8-type biocide. The perimeter barrier is the part most providers skip, and it is the one that reaches the whole colony.
From there it is a matter of checks: every station is monitored, the bait replenished and the activity recorded until the nest stops responding. There is no shortcut, and anyone promising eradication in one visit is not talking about subterranean termites.
We publish the real timescales because they pre-qualify better than any promise. If someone wants a fix in one afternoon, better they know before calling.
Total duration:Bait checks until the activity stops, fitted into the seasons when the house is open
Included
A walk through the property with the naked eye to see what there is and how far it goes. The assessment visit is included, at no cost and with no obligation, and it is the starting point when the signs are unclear.
1 working day, with the figure agreed first
Percussion sounding, listening with audiotermes, species identification and location of the access routes from the ground. We always recommend it: it confirms every point of damage and decides where each bait station must go. It is quoted separately, so you see it with the scope in front of you and it starts when you say yes.
A few days later
Floor-by-floor plan of the property with the issues found, the extent of the damage and the treatment proposal with your written quote. It is part of the technical study.
1 working day
Placement of the indoor bait stations over the sources and of the outdoor perimeter barrier around the building.
Every 6 to 8 weeks
Check of every station, bait replenishment and activity record. The frequency adjusts to what the system shows.
6 to 12 months
The timescale depends on the size of the colony. It is the real range of the bait system and it cannot be compressed.
3 years
Three years from eradication, with the annual inspection included at no cost.
The visual assessment visit is included, at no cost and with no obligation: when the signs are unclear, it is the way to clear doubts. Even so, we always recommend the technical study with audiotermes, a floor plan of the issues found and a report, which is quoted separately: it confirms every point of damage, fixes where the treatment must act and from it comes your written quote, so you decide with the figure in front of you.
Source: ERRADICAT's intervention protocol · retrieved on 4 September 2026.
Yes, and in fact the bait system is the option designed for a Begur house that spends the winter empty. The bait stations with TP8 biocide stay installed and the colony feeds on them just the same whether the home is shut or lived in. What adapts is the calendar: the checks are fitted to the seasons when the house is open and each one is a short visit, with no need to stay.
Yes: installing the bait stations is done in a single working day and the stations stay closed and discreet, so a holiday let in Sa Riera or Aiguablava carries on taking guests as normal. The later checks are short, they are scheduled with the bookings calendar in front of you and the bulk of them can be concentrated in the low season, when the house is free again.
Yes, because in the nucli antic of Begur the stone is not the food but the road. The termite climbs hidden through the wall joints up from the ground and appears in a door lintel, at a beam bearing or on the staircase, which tend to be the few pieces of cellulose in the building. The less wood the house has, the more concentrated the activity that reaches what is left.
Not necessarily, but there is certainly a mature colony very close, and in a Begur house that has spent months shut up it pays to clear the doubt soon. The wings belong to the reproductives of the spring flight and may have come in through a gap from outside. The serious check means listening with audiotermes to the wood in contact with the ground, and that result dictates whether it is worth setting up a bait system or monitoring is enough.
Yes: on the plots of Aiguablava and Sa Riera the outdoor wood resting on the ground is usually the way in, so the system is planned for the whole property. The bait stations sit over the points with activity, whether on the porch or inside the home, and the colony sharing those points is treated as what it is, a single one.
In Begur we cover the whole municipal area, including el nucli antic, Sa Riera and Aiguablava, and we also reach Palafrugell, Pals and Regencós. We work Monday to Saturday, 7:30 to 22:00.
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The ROESP is the Spanish official register of pesticide establishments and services. It is the legal requirement for applying professional-use biocides, and not everyone offering these treatments meets it.
The technician who signs the reports, Sergi Casadevall Casas, has been treating termites and woodworm in Barcelona and Girona since November 2011, holding the biocide applicator licence. Visits are always made by our technicians, never by salespeople.
The conditions and timescales go in the intervention report, signed. For termites, 3 years from the certificate of colony elimination, with the annual inspection included at no added cost.
The technical study ends in a floor-by-floor plan of the property, with the issues found marked and the real extent of the damage. It is quoted separately and the document stays in the owner's hands, to work with the architect or to seek a second opinion with data on the table.
Spanish Royal Decree 830/2010 establishes that a pest-control company's registration in one autonomous community is valid to work in the rest. That is why we cover both provinces with the same registration and the same team.
Content of this page reviewed by our technicians on 4 September 2026.
We ask what you have seen and where. If the signs are unclear, we book the visual assessment visit, which is included and takes little time. And when the signs are there, what we recommend is the technical study: audiotermes, a floor plan of the issues found and a report, with your written quote so you decide with the figure in front of you. If the wood is healthy, we tell you that too: you save yourself the treatment.
602 433 979The visual assessment visit is included, at no cost and with no obligation: when the signs are unclear, it is the way to clear doubts. Even so, we always recommend the technical study with audiotermes, a floor plan of the issues found and a report, which is quoted separately: it confirms every point of damage, fixes where the treatment must act and from it comes your written quote, so you decide with the figure in front of you.
We serve the provinces of Barcelona and Girona.
* Required fields