Audiotermes detection piece by piece, a ground-floor plan with the beams numbered and a report with the proposed bait stations, for houses of the Alt Empordà.
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Before committing to a purchase or a renovation in l'Escala, what settles it is knowing which wood is active and which is not. The technical study answers exactly that: it listens with audiotermes inside beams, frames and skirting boards, without drilling anything. The result is a plan with every piece numbered and a report with the proposed treatment. In the single-storey home surveyed in July 2026, that report confirmed termite activity at several points.
l'Escala did not grow up around a castle but as a fishing quarter. It did not become a municipality in its own right until 1777, having depended until then on Sant Martí d'Empúries, according to the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. That origin leaves an old quarter of narrow, low houses, with a stone ground floor and with doors, frames and skirting boards almost level with the ground. It is the height the subterranean termite reaches first.
Many houses in l'Escala have wood in contact with the soil through the patio, the porch or the plot boundary, and that condition explains the route the July 2026 survey returned: activity in the storeroom door frame and in those of the front door, in the frames giving onto the outdoor patio, in the wood of the patio itself and in the frames of a bedroom and of the toilet. The activity followed the outline of the building, not a beam in the middle of the floor structure.
The tramuntana wind dries out the surface of the wood in l'Escala, which is why reading it by eye misleads more here than elsewhere. A piece can look sound on the outside and be riddled with galleries inside. The subsoil between the Montgrí and the aiguamolls marshes, on the other hand, keeps the moisture the colony needs. Above ground everything looks dry and below it is not: that is the Alt Empordà's trap.
The same report added woodworm damage in the ground-floor beams. In a house like that, two wood-borers live side by side with treatments that resemble each other in nothing. The subterranean termite goes to a bait system; woodworm, to pressure injection with non-return valves plus double fumigation. Mixing them up costs a whole intervention, and that is why the numbered-piece plan is drawn up before anything is decided.
In l'Escala the call and the preliminary visual inspection are included, at no cost and with no obligation. The technical study is quoted separately, and what you buy with it is clearly set out: instrument-based listening piece by piece, drawing up the plan, writing the report and, with that document, the quote for whatever needs treating. We say it up front because it is exactly what gives value to a purchase or a renovation, having every piece identified and not just an impression by eye.
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 l'Escala | Dominant construction | Wood present | Way in | First sign |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the old quarter | Fishermen's houses between party walls | Doors, skirting boards and old joists | Ground-floor walls resting on the ground | Frame that crumbles when pressed |
| Riells | Holiday apartments from the sixties | Joinery, skirting boards and the odd parquet floor | Screed joints on the ground floor | Traces of soil on the skirting board |
| Montgó | Houses with a plot and a perimeter wall | Porches, pergolas and wooden fences | Posts and sleepers driven into the ground | Mud tube over the outer wall |
| the scattered hamlets of Cinc Claus i les Corts | Isolated country houses, with no party walls | Beams, frames and indoor wood panelling | The whole perimeter in contact with soil | Soil in the joint of the outer frame |
Source: ERRADICAT technical criteria from own work in Alt Empordà · retrieved on 4 September 2026.
1777
the year l'Escala became a municipality, until then under Sant Martí d'Empúries
Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana
The data comes from our own technical case files. Open the case and you will see the date, the method and the case file number; anything that could identify the client or the property stays out.
The client asked for a diagnosis before committing to anything. The audiotermes detection confirmed termite activity in door frames, skirting boards and wood in contact with the ground, and located an already inactive tunnel in the wood panelling. The 42 ground-floor beams were numbered on the plan, with the findings marked by zone, and woodworm damage also appeared in them. The report gathers 18 photographs of activity and remains, including a live tunnel behind a wardrobe and activity in the trunk of a tree outside, and proposes indoor wall-mounted bait stations at the sources and transit points, plus the outdoor ones, reloaded according to the activity each check records. The case file published here is that survey, with the bait programme already sized on the plan.
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 l'Escala the spring swarming flights pass unwitnessed in houses shut up out of season: the wings turn up on the floor when 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:Survey and report delivered; the bait programme is sized on the plan
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.
To know what you are buying before you sign. The survey goes over beams, frames, skirting boards and the wood touching the ground with audiotermes, and delivers a plan with the pieces numbered and their findings. In the home we surveyed in l'Escala that document ended up showing termite activity at six points and woodworm on top in the floor structure. With that on the table, the renovation is planned and the negotiation is done with data rather than impressions.
A document and not an opinion: instrument-based listening piece by piece, a plan of the home with every finding placed, a written report and the treatment proposal with its quote. The survey is quoted separately, with the figure and the scope in front of you before starting; the call and the preliminary visual inspection are included. We put it that way because in l'Escala a good share of the enquiries come from people deciding on a purchase who want to know exactly what they are taking on.
Yes. The tramuntana dries the air and the visible face of the wood, but the subterranean termite does not live on the surface: it lives in the subsoil, and the strip between the Montgrí and the aiguamolls holds moisture all year round. The colony climbs up from the ground while everything above looks dry, which is why it goes undetected by eye. The audiotermes listens inside the piece and does not depend on that day's humidity.
It does, and for the worse. A home shut for months, unventilated and with a little damp, lets the colony advance with nobody seeing a thing: by the time it opens for the season, the damage has been done for a while. That is why in l'Escala the best moment for the survey is the opening-up visit, before settling in. Drawing up the plan of findings then saves discovering it the following summer.
They are treated in the same job, but not with the same thing, and the l'Escala survey is the example: termites confirmed in frames and skirting boards, and woodworm in the ground-floor beams. The subterranean termite is dealt with using bait stations and regular checks until the nest is finished off. Woodworm is dealt with on the piece itself: pressure injection with non-return valves, plus double fumigation of the surface. That is why the report separates, piece by piece, which goes to each method.
In l'Escala we cover the whole municipal area, including the old quarter, Riells, Montgó and the scattered hamlets of Cinc Claus i les Corts, and we also reach Torroella de Montgrí, Sant Pere Pescador, Viladamat and l'Armentera. We work Monday to Saturday, 7:30 to 22:00.
Blanes offers the contrast in building type: there the colony appears under parquet laid over screed, with no structural beam involved, while in the Alt Empordà the route runs through frames and patio wood.
Termite treatment in BlanesCalonge is the reference when what dominates is woodworm in an exposed-beam floor structure: same coast, a different wood-borer and treatment by injection instead of bait stations.
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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.
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