Pest Inspections in Gilroy, CA

Local Context

A Gilroy WDO Report Has to Read Three Different Building Eras

A Gilroy inspection is really three inspections. The pre-1930s houses in the blocks off Monterey Street, Victorian and Craftsman with some 1920s stucco among them, carry drywood termite galleries in old-growth framing, deferred eave and porch repairs, and layered remodels that buried the evidence behind finishes. Section 1 findings at those addresses land in the attic framing, the eave, and the porch structure more often than anywhere else in the city.

The 1960s-through-1980s tracts have their own profile: subterranean termite shelter tubes on the stem wall, fungus damage at shower pans and hose bibs, wood-to-soil contact where a fence return or a planter box was built against the stucco, and sub-area moisture where the site drains back toward the house. Those are the Section 2 conditions that stall an escrow when nobody looked before the listing went up.

The 1990s-and-newer streets read clean on the framing and still generate findings. In Glen Loma Ranch and Eagle Ridge it is usually irrigation aimed at the foundation, planter beds buried over the weep screed, and slab penetrations that give subterranean termites a route in. The report has to sort each item into the right section, because Section 1 is what escrow acts on and Section 2 is what the buyer negotiates.