Type the foundation length and the rate from a written bid. There is no national average here, because two houses of the same size are not the same job.
Your linear feettimes a rate from a bidHyrePest publishes no average treatment price, because it holds no bids. The math uses only numbers you type. HyrePest does not treat termites.
Termite treatment cost is the foundation linear feet times the quoted rate per foot, plus extras such as drilling through concrete or bait stations. With an example rate, 200 feet at $12 plus $400 is $2,800. The method does not change the math. It is an estimate you typed, never a quote.
Feet × your rate
Use the numbers from a written bid. Empty fields stay $0. Nothing is emailed.
A budget from numbers you typed, not a quote. The method is a label, not a product. HyrePest does not treat termites.
How the termite treatment cost calculator works
The calculator multiplies the linear feet you type by the rate per foot you type, then adds the extra line.
total = linear feet × your $ per foot + extra
If the feet or the rate is missing, the tool asks for them. It never fills in a national average.
Extra can be the whole bid. A fumigation price or a bait-station package is often one lump sum. Type the lump in extra, where it shows on its own line.
Method is a label. Liquid, bait or fumigation changes the note under the total, not the dollars. A “bait premium” or “liquid discount” would be an index we do not have.
Pick the method for the right insect. Fumigation is for drywood termites. Liquid and bait are for subterranean termites. Pricing the wrong method starts with the wrong ID, so use the pest identifier first. The termite control guide explains each method.
What each input means
Input
What to type
Method
Liquid, bait or fumigation. Fumigation for mud tubes is the wrong method. Liquid for a drywood colony in the attic is the other wrong method.
Linear feet
The foundation perimeter you can walk, including additions. A garage on its own slab adds footage. Leave it at 0 until you have measured or the bid states it.
Rate
The $ per foot from a written proposal for this method on this house. A roundup of “average termite costs” is not a rate.
Extra
Drilling through concrete, extra stations, a fumigation price, repairs the treatment does not include, or a first-year bond priced separately.
Worked examples
The rates below are examples. Replace them with the numbers on your bid.
200 feet of liquid treatment
Liquid, 200 linear feet, $12 per foot, $400 extra to drill through a garage slab. The total is $2,800 (200 × 12 + 400). Ask for the product name and its EPA registration number.
The same house on a bait system
Same 200 feet and $12, method switched to bait. The total is still $2,800. Bait is often priced as a station package plus years of monitoring. Type that in extra, or compare the years on the recurring plan tool.
The one where one number misleads
A 140-foot slab house and a 280-foot crawl-space house do not cost the same. The slab needs drilling. The crawl space needs access and moisture work the treatment does not include. One figure for both hides that, so type your own feet and your own bid.
Check the feet, not just the rate
A bid has two numbers: dollars per foot and feet. The feet are the half you can check yourself.
You can measure it. The treatable perimeter is a physical fact about your house. Anyone can walk it with a tape in twenty minutes. The rate lives inside the company and you cannot audit it.
Compare the counts. Two bids with different linear feet are not two prices for one job. They describe your house differently, and at least one is wrong. Ask each bidder to write the number down.
Where counts differ. An attached garage on its own slab, a porch on piers, a stoop, an addition with its own footing. Each is in one company’s count and not another’s. That is not dishonesty. Nobody said which rule they used.
Drilled feet are a separate number. Treating soil and drilling through concrete are different work. Patios, driveways against the wall and slab garage floors turn trenching into drilling. Ask for drilled footage as its own line.
Why we publish no rate per foot
Many cost pages print a number here. We leave it empty on purpose.
We have no invoices. HyrePest does not treat pests, inspect structures, apply pesticides, sell contracts or bond a house against termites. It does not rank pest control companies, and no company pays to appear in these tools. A per-foot figure from a site with no bids is borrowed or invented.
Published ranges rarely show their method. They seldom say how many jobs, which states, which kinds of house, or whether drilling and a bond are included. Reprinting one would make it look better sourced than it is.
An average is the wrong tool anyway. A slab house and a crawl-space house are different jobs that share a pest. Averaging them gives a number that fits neither.
What works instead. Get three bids, each with its own linear feet, drilled footage, product and guaranty type. If you have one bid, the next step is a second bid, not a benchmark. See the pest control cost guide for the same rule across pests.
The contract is what you are buying
The chemical goes into the ground and you never see it again. What you keep is paper, and the paper is the product.
What you can inspect afterward. Not the termiticide, not the trench, not the colony. You keep a contract, a guaranty and, if the work was done properly, a diagram of the house. Read those more closely than the price.
One state writes it down. Georgia Secretary of State, Rules of the Georgia Structural Pest Control Commission requires that “Every licensee shall issue a written contract to the property owner or owner’s agent covering each job”. A written contract for each job, not a receipt.
And says when you sign. “Every Wood Destroying Organism Control contract shall be signed by the property owner or owner’s agent prior to performance of any control measures and the three (3) day right of cancellation shall be disclosed to every contractee in accordance with the Fair Business Practices Act of 1975.”
What that means. Sign before any work starts, never “we’ll do the paperwork after”. And you must be told about the three-day right to cancel.
Where it applies. This is a Georgia rule, and it binds licensees in Georgia. Other states do not all require this wording, but the distinction is worth asking about anywhere. More on pest control contracts.
The documents to get, and what a missing one means
On a termite job, a missing document is not a paperwork slip. It tells you what you did not buy.
Document
What it is
What a missing one means
Written contract
The scope of the job, signed by the owner before any treatment. Not the estimate and not the invoice.
The scope was never fixed. Later disputes about which buildings, which perimeter and which exclusions come down to memory.
Guaranty, with its type
One of two things: retreatment only, or retreatment and repair. Neither promises termites will not return.
You do not know which product you bought. At claim time, the contract’s wording decides.
Inspection diagram
A drawing of what was inspected, what was found, and what could not be reached.
There is no record of what was left out. Claims often turn on the areas nobody could reach.
Product record
The product name and its EPA registration number. The label is a public document.
You cannot read the label your technician must follow, the document that sets “conditions, directions, and precautions that define who may use a pesticide, as well as where, how, how much, and how often it may be used”.
Bait-system notice
Where bait is installed, Georgia requires the statement: “The removal of the bait or baiting system may result in a lack of termite protection.”
Nobody told you this is an ongoing service, not a one-time install.
The Georgia items bind Georgia licensees. Other states may not require the same wording, so ask for it.
Retreatment only, or retreatment and repair?
Georgia requires whichever of these two sentences applies to be printed inside a heavy black border.
The first. “This contract provides for retreatment of a structure but does not provide for the repair of damages caused by wood destroying organisms.”
The second. “This contract provides for retreatment of a structure and the repair of damages caused by wood destroying organisms within the limits stated in this contract.”
Why the border. The rule requires whichever statement applies to appear in heavy black borders, so the customer cannot miss it.
In practice. Under the first, the company comes back to treat again, and damaged wood is your problem. Under the second, it also owes repair, but only “within the limits stated in this contract”. The limits are the product.
The question to ask. Not “is there a warranty?” Ask which of the two sentences is on this contract. If it is the repair form, ask the dollar limit, what voids it, and what you must do each year to keep it.
Read the renewal terms too. A guaranty that lapses if you skip the annual fee is a subscription. That can be worth buying. It is just a different product from a one-time treatment. See termite warranties and bonds.
An inspection report is not a warranty
The inspection report handed over at closing is easy to misread. The North Carolina agriculture department’s homeowner guide spells out what it is.
What it is
North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services says the wood destroying insect report is “not a warranty as to the absence of wood-destroying insects; it is a report of the visible presence or absence of wood-destroying insects at the time of the inspection”.
Note the limits: visible, and at the time of the inspection. Anything behind a finished wall is outside it.
What it is not
NCDA also states the report is not a “clearance letter”, in that it does not necessarily clear a structure; not a “termite letter”, in that it addresses more than just termites; and not a structural damage report.
The form
Many inspections use NPMA-33, Wood Destroying Insect Inspection Report. HUD hosts a copy of the form.
Read the “inaccessible areas” part before the conclusion. That is where the report says what it could not see.
If you are buying a house
Get the report and, separately, any guaranty that transfers. Ask whether it transfers, what that costs, and whether the terms reset.
Why the method does not change the dollars
Switching from liquid to bait does not move the total. That is on purpose.
The reason. A different price for bait would need a defensible rate for each method. We have neither. A made-up difference would look like knowledge and would not be.
What the method does change. The commitment. Liquid is a one-time treated zone. Bait is stations, monitoring and a service relationship. That is why Georgia requires the notice that “The removal of the bait or baiting system may result in a lack of termite protection.”
Year one hides the difference. On year one alone, a bait plan can look cheaper. Over the years you plan to own the house, monitoring fees are the bigger question.
Use the extra line. Follow-up visits, a first-year monitoring fee or a bond premium go in extra. A total without them cannot be compared with one that includes them.
What to ask before you sign a termite quote
A careful company answers each of these without pausing, because the answer is already on paper.
How many linear feet, and how did you measure?
Get it written on the bid. Ask what is included: garage, porch, addition. Then measure the long runs yourself.
How much is drilled through concrete, as its own line?
Soil and concrete are different work. Splitting them makes bids comparable and often explains a price gap.
Is this retreatment only, or retreatment and repair?
If it is repair, ask for the dollar limit, the exclusions and what keeps it in force.
What product, and what is its EPA registration number?
The number lets you read the same label the technician must follow.
What caused the problem, and what fixes it?
EPA: “If you hire any outside persons to help control pests, ask them to find and correct the source of the problem before applying pesticides.” For termites that usually means wood touching soil, a downspout at the foundation, a damp crawl space, or mulch above the slab.
When do I sign, and how long do I have to cancel?
Sign before any work starts. If the crew wants to start now and do paperwork later, stop the crew.
What is your license number, and in which category?
Texas licenses in 7 categories. A general pest license is not a termite license. Check it with the license lookup helper.
Do not accept “start today, price expires tonight”
A deadline discount removes the time you would use to get a second bid and read the guaranty. That time is worth more than the discount.
A license and a badge are different things
Both can appear on the same van. Only one is a state saying the company may legally do this work.
The license
Pest control licensing is run by each state, so there is no national register. Your state regulator is the place to check.
The category matters as much as the number. You can check it on a state website in a few minutes, and only a regulator can suspend it.
The accreditation
NPMA describes QualityPro, a company accreditation run on a separate site; NPMA PRO Certified, an individual credential; and Pest Management Standards for Food Processing and Handling Facilities, updated 2026, which NPMA says reflect current integrated pest management practices and control technologies.
A trade association is a reliable source on the existence and content of its own programs and on nothing else. We did not retrieve QualityPro’s accreditation criteria, so this site makes no claim about what the badge requires. It is not a license, and it is not a substitute for checking one.
What this tool cannot do
Things the math on this page cannot see.
It cannot tell you that you have termites
No tool here finds an infestation. Treating for the wrong insect is an expensive mistake. Start with the termite risk checklist and a licensed inspection.
It cannot see soil, construction or access
Slab or crawl space, sand or clay, a finished basement, a driveway against the wall. The rate must come from someone who inspected the house.
It cannot price fumigation well
Fumigation depends on the building’s volume, tenting and time out of the house, not the perimeter. Type the price in extra.
It does not read your contract
Retreatment only or retreatment and repair is a large variable, and the math cannot see it. Two equal totals can be very different purchases.
It holds no price data
There is no ZIP lookup. Your bids are the local data. Termite pressure also varies by region, which only a local inspector can judge.
It cannot value a bond over time
Renewal fees, transfer rules and what voids the guaranty matter over the years. Work those out on paper before comparing.
Words on a termite bid
Linear feet
The measured length of treatable perimeter. The half of the math you can check yourself.
Drill-and-treat
Treating through concrete rather than into soil: driveways, patios, slab garages, stoops.
Retreatment-only guaranty
The company treats again if termites return. It does not repair damage.
Retreatment and repair guaranty
The company treats again and repairs damage, up to the limits in the contract.
Bait system
Stations in the soil plus regular monitoring. An ongoing service, not a one-time install.
Wood destroying insect report
A report of visible evidence on the inspection day. Not a warranty and not a clearance.
Conducive conditions
Wood touching soil, poor drainage, a damp crawl space, mulch above the slab. Treatment does not fix them.
Transferability
Whether a guaranty survives a home sale, at what fee and on what terms. The contract decides.
Questions this calculator answers
How much does termite treatment cost?
It costs what a written bid adds up to for your house, soil, access and termite type. We publish no national average, because a slab house and a crawl-space house are different jobs. Type the linear feet and the rate from the bid.
Why will you not give me an average price?
Because an average hides the lines that change the price: drilling through a slab, how many bait stations and years of monitoring, tenting a whole house, and repairs the treatment leaves out. We also hold no bids to average.
Does picking liquid, bait or fumigation change the total?
No. The method only changes the note under the total. A different multiplier per method would be a national index we do not have. Type the rate from the bid for the method it offers.
What is liquid soil treatment priced on?
Usually linear feet of foundation, plus drilling where a slab, garage or addition blocks the soil. Put drilling in extra. Ask for the product name, its EPA registration number and the re-entry time. The label is the law.
What does a bait system buy?
Stations in the soil, regular monitoring, and a kill once termites feed on the bait. The number of stations and years of monitoring are the price. A first-year total without the monitoring years is not the whole contract.
When is fumigation the right method?
For drywood termites. Fumigation means tenting the house, gassing it and leaving for a time. It is not a treatment for subterranean termites. If someone sells a tent for mud tubes, check the ID first with the pest identifier.
Is a termite bond included?
Only if you add the renewal in extra. A bond is a yearly agreement for monitoring and retreatment, sometimes with repairs. Read what triggers it, whether it transfers when you sell, and what happens if you miss a year.
Do I need treatment if I only saw swarmers outside?
Not necessarily. Swarmers outside in season may come from a colony that is not in your house. Swarmers inside, shed wings on a sill, mud tubes and damaged wood are reasons to call a licensed inspector.
Should I compare three quotes on linear feet?
Yes, and also on method, product, what is excluded, the bond and the cancellation terms. Three prices for three different scopes is not a comparison. Check each company’s license with the state board before you sign.
Does HyrePest do termite work?
No. We do not inspect, treat or bond houses, and matching is not live yet. Use the numbers from a licensed company’s written bid.
Sources and methodology
Figures dated August 26, 2026. Last reviewed .
Pest control and pesticide safety for consumers (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, retrieved August 26, 2026). Source for asking for the product, its EPA registration number and its labeled use.
Do’s and Don’ts of Pest Control (US Environmental Protection Agency, retrieved September 5, 2026). Ask a hired professional to find and fix the source before applying pesticides.
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 620-6-.02 (Contracts) (Georgia Secretary of State, Rules of the Georgia Structural Pest Control Commission, retrieved September 5, 2026). The two guaranty statements in heavy black borders, the written-contract rule, the three-day right to cancel and the bait-system notice. Binds Georgia licensees.
Homeowner’s Guide to the Wood Destroying Insect Report (North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, retrieved September 5, 2026). A wood destroying insect report is not a warranty or a clearance letter.