The team works out of Girona, so the bait programme checks, every 6 to 8 weeks, leave from the city itself: no waiting, no long routes and no visits that end up postponed.
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A termite treatment in Girona is not won on installation day: it is won at the checks. The bait system demands returning every 6 to 8 weeks, for 6 to 12 months, to read and reload every station. ERRADICAT has its team based in Girona, and that closeness makes easy what gets neglected at a distance: arriving on time to every check, whether in the Barri Vell, the Mercadal or Sant Narcís.
The Barri Vell is stone, exposed beams and joinery with centuries on it, in streets no van can enter. There, every bait-system check is done on foot, station by station, refill case in hand. And it can be done well for months on end for a very simple reason: the team leaves from the city itself, it does not come from outside with a packed diary.
In the Mercadal the wood is almost never visible: joists hidden by plaster ceilings and parquet over screed. That is why detection is done with audiotermes, listening to the wood without opening up the structure, and the indoor stations sit flush with the floor, with no chasing and no building work. Every check is a short visit, the kind that fits between errands, so repeating it every six to eight weeks upends nobody's home.
In Sant Narcís, with the estate houses raised in the fifties, and in Palau, the first thing to give signs is usually outside the home: the fence, the log store, a sleeper or a porch resting on the ground. There the weight of the programme falls on the outdoor perimeter stations, the ones we open most often while the bait consumption keeps rising.
And whoever opens those stations is no passing salesperson: they are the same technicians who later sign the report, with a lead who has treated wood since November 2011. That trade is what makes it possible to tell, on the ground, an old trace from a colony on the move. In Girona that is the most expensive call to get wrong.
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 Girona | Dominant construction | Wood present | Way in | First sign |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| el Barri Vell | Stone houses on narrow streets | Exposed beams, frames and old staircases | Wall bases and ground floors | Frame that sounds hollow when tapped |
| el Mercadal | 19th-century buildings and post-war blocks | Joists above false ceilings and parquet | Screed and the building's inner courtyards | Flooring that gives in one specific area |
| Sant Narcís | Low houses with patios from the fifties | Porches, fences and outdoor joinery | Patio wood resting on the ground | Mud tube climbing the fence |
| Palau | Detached homes with gardens | Sleepers, log stores and pergolas | Firewood and sleepers on the ground | Wings piled up by the door |
Source: ERRADICAT technical criteria from own work in the province of Girona · retrieved on 4 August 2026.
38,711
principal family homes counted in Girona in 2021
Source: Idescat, El municipi en xifres
4
municipalities of the Girona province with a wood technical case file opened between January and July 2026
Source: ERRADICAT's internal case-file register
6 to 8 weeks
between one check and the next, an easy rhythm to keep when the team leaves from the same city
Source: ERRADICAT's monitoring protocol
How it was counted: the figure is not ours. It comes from a peer-reviewed scientific study on bait treatments in Spanish old town centres, and we relay it exactly as the journal publishes it, adding no sums of our own and never stretching it to say about Girona anything it does not say.
In five Spanish old town centres treated with the bait system between 2004 and 2014, the Reticulitermes colonies were completely eliminated within 7 to 16 months, and in the five follow-up years afterwards no activity was detected again.
What that study confirms is that an old-town nest can take over a year to fall, even somewhat longer than the usual 6 to 12 months. With those timescales, the result is not decided on installation day: it is decided by missing not a single check in all that time. In January too. Also when nothing seems to be happening. For a team working out of Girona itself, that is no extra effort: it is the routine of every week.
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 Girona the wings of the spring swarming usually appear on landings and staircases of the Barri Vell before they show inside the home itself.
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:Checks every 6 to 8 weeks while the programme stays open, 6 to 12 months
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 August 2026.
One working day to install and then a short visit every 6 to 8 weeks while the programme stays open, which is usually 6 to 12 months. In the Barri Vell those visits are made on foot, station by station, because no vehicle reaches many doorways. It is work of repetition more than intensity, and that is why being based in Girona changes the result and not just the journey.
By the trace, not the hole. Woodworm leaves round holes of one to two millimetres and fine frass under the piece; the subterranean termite does not surface, it leaves mud tubes and hollows the wood from inside leaving a thin intact skin. Everything else changes too: termites are treated with bait stations and months of monitoring, woodworm with injection and double fumigation on the piece. In Girona we handle both, each by its own route.
On foot and with the kit in hand. In the Barri Vell our technicians park in the nearest authorised area and carry up the refill case and the station key, which is all a check requires. Each station is opened, the consumption read, reloaded if due and closed again. A home with four or five stations is done in under half an hour. That is why the 6 to 8 week rhythm holds even on streets where you cannot even unload.
They continue. The colony lives underground, where the temperature barely swings, so Girona's cold deceives: winter is hard on the street, not below ground. In fact the Meteoteca de Catalunya explains this cold winter by the barrier of the Serralada Litoral, which cuts the city off from the sea's mildness. Above ground you see less activity, but the nest does not stop, and skipping the January checks lengthens the programme instead of shortening it.
It depends on what you are seeing. If your Girona home shows no clear signs, the visual assessment visit, which costs nothing and commits you to nothing, is the way to clear doubts. When the signs are there, mud tubes, loose wings or wood that sounds hollow, we recommend moving to the technical study: it is quoted separately and returns the floor plan with every activity point placed, which is what decides where each bait station must go. With that report in front of you, you have the quote and you decide without pressure.
In Girona we cover the whole municipal area, including el Barri Vell, el Mercadal, Sant Narcís and Palau, and we go out to Salt, Sarrià de Ter and Celrà within the same working day. We work Monday to Saturday, 7:30 to 22:00.
The most repeated doubt in the city is whether the wood has termites or woodworm: Girona's woodworm treatment goes by injection with non-return valves and double fumigation on the piece, with no stations and no months-long programme.
Woodworm in Girona's beams: treating the piece without replacing itIn the city of Girona almost all the work is flats and buildings between party walls: the stations go indoors and the check rounds are walked, doorway by doorway. When the home is a house with a plot in the province of Barcelona the approach changes, because the colony lives in the garden and the bait barrier has to go out into the ground.
Termites in garden homes of BarcelonaThe 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 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 eradication, 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 August 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.