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Review of Prime Termite

I am so glad that hired Prime Termite after spend...

I am so glad that hired Prime Termite after spending almost $10,000 on repairing my home. To make the long story short, about 2 years ago I went online, as you might do, and did a search for termite company and termite inspection. It sent me to a homeadviser website that advertises also on TV all the time. I just filled up some form, and almost immediately started receiving emails and phone calls from these termite companies. I did not research about them, but thought since they are all over the TV and claim to be experts of choosing the right company, then they must have referred me to the best match based on what parameters I put on their long form. So, one of the termite companies offered me I think $1,200 to treat according what they say "the whole house" , and the house is almost $3,000 SF. I met two companies, and one of the gave me $650 quote and the other one I believe under $1,000. I decided to go with the middle quote, so hired the last company that came. What happened was they came stayed there for like an hour sprayed some things on wall and went. Later when my neighbor was having a party I met with a termite inspector from Prime Termite, and he just came close to my home, looked the drilling and told me there was no proper work done. Then I told him that none of these three inspectors checks attic, under the house, and spent no more than 5-10 minutes just looking at what I show them. He said that I just wasted my money on them. At that time I thought that he just wanted more business from me, and was joking, but asked him to leave his card.

Fast forward about a year, and I am noticing droppings coming from my ceiling, Then I decided to check the attic myself since we have an easy way to go there, and found some wood damage there. I lost the business card of Prime Termite man, but as soon as I looked online I found them easily. So, Joe came, and as soon as he started checking the house, he told me that back of my all patio under stairs is heavily damaged. I understand my house is on the hill, and I needed to check, but did not understand how it was not checked before. He told me to be on the safe site, since the patio partially is also supporting the part of the house it's better to call a civil engineer. He also went under the house and attic and found tons of other damage too. If you have a new house in Glendale area, then you just cannot wait 20 years and not do any termite work, or worse - hire the guys from homeadviser, who try not to do anything, and just get couple of quick bucks. I thought that if another company is referring you them, then I should trust, but it's actual the opposite. These companies, Joe told me pay homeadviser to refer me, if I paid homeadviser instead then they would send me good contractors. But I guess nobody wants to pay for something you can get free. OK, it's free but you have to read tons of reviews and chose right company for you, because neither yelp nor Google do it for you. And again the ones who do the "searching" for you like homeadviser and angies list they sent you the wrong guys since get paid by them.

Anyway, my fumigation, foaming and subterranean termite work is done after I did wood repairs, and I cannot be happier. Highly recommend Prime Termite.