I can't answer your question, but boy, do I feel your pain. We live in the midwest over some old coalmines and have to be careful about everything we put in the ground. We had to get rid of all the wood mulch around our house. All the landscape companies assured us that termites wouldn't eat the "good" mulch. Well, they ate ours. If I planted a geranium in the ground termites tunnelled through the stem. They ate a 2X12 board in our garage wall. They ate through the drywall in the basement and DD came running up the stairs saying she could see movement in the holes in the walls. Freaked her out! I think ours must be mutants! After your home is treated, make sure you have a yearly inspection. That way you will be insurred by the insect control people for any additional problems. Since we got rid of all wood mulch around the foundation and the termite people drilled holes all around and filled them with some kind of termite killer, we haven't seen any more signs of them. Good luck!

I've done this on furniture--but that's an amazing transformation! You can use canned stain if the pens don't come in your color. A bit messier but same process. The stain does a little sealing by virtue of being oil-based, but you might want to experiment with sealers for areas likely to be hit with water. I wonder if a rubbed finish would blend okay.

There are no damaged baseboards. There are just termites that come out of the cracks of the floorboards and die since the application of orange oil. In terms of visible damage, there is slight bubbling on the floorboards, which I honestly think is due to the 2 applications of orange oil actually rather than actual termite damage. They weren't there until right after the oil was applied. I have communicated numerous times with my HOA with pictures and videos regarding all the termite issues. I don't see anything in our HOA CC&R documents regarding termite/pest control. There are some lines about the HOA being in charge of the "common area", which is gray since this is IN my unit, but possibly coming from the building structure which I assume is a "common area. In terms of who selected the termite company, I was going to have a termite company of my choosing come, but they were hard to schedule with so the HOA actually scheduled a different termite company that came to do the orange oil treatments and they split the cost with me. The HOA board pasted flyers on each residents' doors asking if they had termites, and only 1 other person said they had previous termite issues, but nothing recently. In terms of fumigation, the HOA president said that it is almost impossible to get all tenants to agree to do fumigation, the costs are too high, and coordination of scheduling the procedure and security issues would be challenging. I have a 3rd termite company coming this weekend to give an updated and new opinion about this and what to do. From my conversations with these termite companies, they all seem confused why I'm seeing these anyway since they usually stay in the wood - from this thread, it sounds like they must be escaping something or searching for food, not sure. I really don't know how the termite company can even find the source, unless they intend to rip up my floor? and all this talk about suing/getting lawyers involved seems very costly to me.

Where are you located? Hopefully someone here will have good leads for someone near you.