In Canet subterranean termites live alongside period joinery that deserves to reach the next generation intact. We locate the activity with audiotermes and treat it with TP8 biocide bait stations, without dismantling coffered ceilings or galleries.
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The coffered ceiling of a Canet villa has no need to come down to treat termites: the colony attacking it lives in the ground, not in the wood, and that is where it is fought. The technicians locate the activity with audiotermes, with no exploratory openings and no damage, and place TP8 biocide bait stations whose bait the workers themselves carry back to the nest. The period joinery of the old town and the seafront villas stays exactly where it is.
Canet de Mar takes pride in its Modernista heritage, and rightly so: few towns in the Maresme keep so much original wood in use. In the seafront villas and the grand houses of the old town, coffered ceilings, glazed galleries, staircases and made-to-measure doors are still doing their job, pieces a carpenter today does not reproduce easily and that form part of the property's value. Treating a pest in that joinery demands a method that never forces it to be dismantled or a single sound piece to be sacrificed.
The subterranean termite finds a comfortable setting in Canet. The town runs down from the upper part towards the sea, crossed by seasonal streams, with watered gardens and a subsoil that holds moisture for a good part of the year. The colony lives buried, advances beneath streets and patios and enters the houses through the wall bases, the joints in the screed or any wood resting on the earth. None of that is visible from the living room, which is why the activity has usually been inside for some time by the time someone discovers it.
In a listed home, or simply a much-loved one, the classic answer of lifting, cleaning out and replacing destroys exactly what you are trying to save. The bait system turns that logic around: the wood is respected and the target becomes the colony. Listening with audiotermes confirms where there is activity without opening anything up, the TP8 biocide bait stations are placed on those points and the workers carry the bait back to the nest. The coffered ceiling is not touched; it is watched while the bait moves through the colony.
The good news is that Canet's fine wood is rarely the way in. The colony starts with the humble pieces: the frame of a ground-floor door, a stair tread, a floor batten, a shutter box. Checking those lower pieces, and doing it by listening as well as looking, makes it possible to find the activity while the coffered ceiling of the main floor is still intact. That is the inspection that makes sense in a period house: quiet, with nothing opened up and focused on the lowest level.
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 Canet de Mar | Dominant construction | Wood present | Way in | First sign |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the old town | Traditional casa de cós terraces between thick walls | Joists, staircases and original doors | Foundations in contact with damp ground | Ground-floor frames going hollow |
| the seafront villas | Modernista villas with garden and gallery | Coffered ceilings, glazed galleries and shutters | Watered gardens right by the facade | Dried mud in the skirting joints |
| the upper town | Hillside houses with a plot and porch | Porch beams and wooden fencing | Posts and sleepers driven into the earth | Mud tubes climbing the pillars |
Source: ERRADICAT technical criteria from own work in the province of Barcelona · 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 Canet the swarming flights arrive with the first mild days of spring and give themselves away in galleries and balconies facing the sea, once the ground along the streams has warmed up.
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:Periodic checks of every station until the activity is confirmed to have stopped
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.
No: in Canet we set the job up exactly the other way round. The bait system acts on the colony, which lives in the ground, and the joinery stays in place just as it is. The TP8 biocide bait stations go wherever the activity dictates, the workers take care of spreading the bait through the nest, and the coffered ceiling stays under watch at every check, never under the tool.
Yes: in a seafront villa in Canet the confirmation is done with audiotermes, listening equipment that registers the work of the workers inside the wood without drilling into it. That reading, together with a check of the pieces touching the ground, makes it possible to place the activity and decide on the plan where the bait stations will perform.
Yes, it can: in Canet's old town the houses share walls that rise from the same ground, and a subterranean colony knows nothing of boundaries: it explores everything it touches. That is why the inspection pays attention to the base of the party wall and to the service ducts, which are its usual route between homes.
Not necessarily, though certainly close by: in Canet's seafront villas the spring wings show that a mature colony has released reproductives in the immediate surroundings. The next step is to locate where they come from: an inspection of the low-level wood and listening with audiotermes at the suspect points, before deciding whether stations are needed and where.
Yes: in Canet termite eradication is backed by a 3 year written guarantee, which includes an annual inspection of the home. Before getting there, the stations are checked periodically until it is confirmed that the colony has stopped coming to the bait, and only then do we speak of eradication.
In Canet de Mar we cover the whole municipal area, including the old town, the seafront villas and the upper town, and we also reach Arenys de Mar, Sant Pol de Mar and Arenys de Munt. We work Monday to Saturday, 7:30 to 22:00.
Canet shares with Arenys de Munt the profile of the house with a garden on damp ground; the job published there is a preventive programme, designed to get ahead of the colony before the first sign.
Termite treatment in Arenys de MuntCanet and Pineda de Mar share a stretch of coast and a spring warning: the wings of the swarm are usually the first visible sign in buildings close to the beach.
Termite treatment in Pineda de Mar, starting from the April wingsCanet looks to Mataró as the comarca's capital, and for termites too: the calls from there come from commercial ground floors and converted factories, buildings that call for the same bait system with a different layout.
Termite treatment in Mataró, with the premises or the home still in useEach municipality has its own page, with real work from its area and the detail of how we work there.
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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