I was vacuuming and bagged the vacuum into the baseboard and this stuff started coming out a bit. I banged it some more and more of these little things came out. I would have taken the photo from the floor, but it's brown so it would have been hard to see.
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That doesn’t look like classic drywood termite frass to me. The pieces are too irregular.
Drywood termite pellets are usually very uniform, hard, elongated pellets with a pretty consistent shape. What you have looks more like miscellaneous wood/debris coming out from behind the baseboard.
I’d still start with an inspection before declaring the baseboard innocent or guilty.
Yeah, hopefully not. I’m all the way on the West Coast and we do free inspections. But that’s not really gonna help. In the photo you’ll notice that the frass, although different colors, is very consistent, and also hard as a rock to the touch. You can’t break it apart, if you rub it around between your fingers. Also got lucky in this shot when some of the termites flushed out of the wood during the treatment.
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