It's not bad luck — it's your zip code. Penhook sits in a four-season climate shaped by mountainous terrain, with more snow and cooler temperatures than the Piedmont or coast. Much of the housing here is decades old, consistent with the region's sparse, slow-growing population outside Roanoke. That's exactly what stink bugs, subterranean termites, carpenter ants, ticks, house mice, and spiders need to get inside. Waiting won't fix it. It just gives them more time to spread.
A one-size-fits-all spray doesn't cut it here. A mix of historic Shenandoah Valley farmhouses and more rural mountain and coalfield-era homes, most with basements given the colder winters. So before we write a treatment plan, we inspect first. Water, tree cover, open land, building age — it all factors in. You get a real diagnosis, not a guess.