How the termite quote check works
The quote check places a termite treatment quote, or a final bill, against the range our named sources give for that treatment on that size of home. Readers can add their own quote, anonymously, and other readers in the same state see it. This page sets out every source, threshold, limit and rule behind it, and how the site makes money.
Reader quotes so far
0 published, 0 held for checking, 0 refused as impossible, at the last daily update of this page. Reader figures are volunteered and unverified.
1. What your price is compared with
Our range is each named publisher's rate for the treatment, times the size of your home. It is a compiled estimate from cost guides, not a price any company has offered you. Liquid barriers and bait stations are priced per linear foot of foundation; tenting and heat per square foot of floor; spot work as one job. Linear feet = 4 x the square root of the floor area, which assumes a square, single-storey footprint. Real homes are rarely square, so the true perimeter is usually longer. If your quote states a measured perimeter, the check uses it instead.
| Treatment | Rate used | Source, and when we read it |
|---|---|---|
| Liquid barrier | $3-$20/lin ft; never below $500 (whole-home low) | HomeGuide, page dated 21 November 2025, read 13 October 2026 |
| Bait stations | $7-$12/lin ft | HomeGuide, page dated 21 November 2025, read 13 October 2026 |
| Tent fumigation | $1-$4/sq ft | HomeGuide, page dated 21 November 2025, read 13 October 2026; Bob Vila, page dated 26 June 2024, read 13 October 2026 |
| Heat treatment | $1-$3/sq ft | HomeGuide, page dated 21 November 2025, read 13 October 2026 |
| Spot treatment | $350 to $1,000, flat | This Old House, page dated 17 June 2026, read 13 October 2026 |
| Wood or damage repair, if your price includes it | $600 to $3,000 added to both ends | HomeAdvisor, page dated 19 June 2026, read 13 October 2026 |
Your state. No named source we could read publishes a termite treatment price for any state, so the range is national for every state and the check says so. The state you choose decides which reader quotes you see, not our range. The state pages show what each state's regulator requires instead.
What the quote includes. Only one answer changes the range: wood or damage repair, which a source prices. The others add a sourced figure to compare that line with, or say plainly that no source prices it: a warranty (HomeGuide puts a termite contract at $500 to $2,500 for the first year, HomeGuide, page dated 22 November 2025, read 13 October 2026), a yearly fee (renewal $150 to $500 a year, bait monitoring $200 to $400 a year), slab drilling and Formosan termites (no source we checked prices either). Florida readers also see what the state's contract rule, Fla. Admin. Code R. 5E-14.105, requires a contract to state.
The wording. The check says a price is inside, above or below the range our sources give for the job. It never calls a price fair, unfair or overpriced: a quote can sit above the range for reasons the range does not price.
2. Quotes from other readers: what is shown, and when
Reader quotes are grouped into slices: one state, one treatment, one job size. Quotes and final bills are two separate lists, counted and summarised apart, never pooled. Prices show to the nearest $10, dated to the month they were shared. Reports older than 24 months drop out.
| Reports in the slice | What you see | Why |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Our sourced range, and “no reader quotes yet”. Same-size jobs from other states may be listed, labelled, and never counted for your state. | Nothing else to show. |
| 1 to 4 | Our range leads; each reader quote is listed with its month. | Every report is shown from the first; too few for a summary. |
| 5 to 29 | Our range leads; the readers' low-to-high range and median sit beside it, with the count and the months. | With five reports the lowest and highest bracket the true median 93.8% of the time; with six, 96.9% (Penn State STAT 415). |
| 30 or more | The readers' middle 80% and median lead; our range becomes the reference line. | At 29 reports the chance that one falls below the true 10th percentile first passes 95%; the US National Center for Health Statistics also uses 30 as a reliability floor (NHANES). |
Job sizes. Liquid and bait: under 150 ft of foundation; 150 to 199 ft of foundation; 200 to 249 ft of foundation; 250 ft of foundation or more. Tenting and heat: under 1,500 sq ft; 1,500 to 2,499 sq ft; 2,500 to 3,499 sq ft; 3,500 sq ft or more. Spot treatment is one band. Per-foot prices are never pooled across sizes, because a job with fixed costs costs less per foot as it grows.
Reader figures are volunteered and unverified. We do not see the quote or the bill. People who think a price is unusual are more likely to share it (reviews show the same pattern: Hu, Pavlou and Zhang), so the spread shows as well as the middle. Nothing we write is ever shown as a reader quote, and nobody is paid or rewarded to share one. No review stars or ratings are attached to reader quotes.
3. What we refuse, and what we hold
Refused as impossible. A price outside these fixed limits is not published. The limits are ours, set wide on purpose to catch typing mistakes, not to judge prices: per unit, at most a sixth of the lowest rate our sources print and at least five times the highest; for spot work, a tenth of the lowest flat price and ten times the highest. They are fixed numbers, never worked out from our range.
| Treatment | Per unit | Whole job |
|---|---|---|
| Liquid barrier | $0.50 to $100 per linear ft | $50 to $75,000 |
| Bait stations | $1 to $60 per linear ft | $50 to $75,000 |
| Tent fumigation | $0.15 to $20 per sq ft | $50 to $75,000 |
| Heat treatment | $0.15 to $15 per sq ft | $50 to $75,000 |
| Spot treatment | none (one job) | $25 to $10,000 |
Published, high or low. Every plausible quote inside those limits is published at once, however far it is from our range. Our range is never used to hold a reader's quote back: if it were, it could never be shown to be wrong.
Held for checking, by one symmetric rule. Once a slice already has 8 published reports of the same kind (quotes or final bills), a new one is held if its price is more than 3.5 robust standard deviations from their median, on the log scale: the median plus or minus 3.5 x 1.4826 x the median absolute deviation (the Hampel identifier; SAS). On the log scale, twice the median and half the median are equally far out, so highs and lows are treated alike. When the reports agree so closely that the spread is under 0.1 on the log scale, 0.1 is used, so a report is held only if it is more than 1.42 times above or below the median. Below 8 reports nothing is held on price. A person checks every held report and publishes it if it is genuine.
Held for checking at the last daily update: 0. Refused as impossible: 0.
Spam and repeats. Every quote passes a Cloudflare Turnstile check on our server. We take up to 3 quotes a day from one reader, and the same quote sent twice in a day counts once. To tell readers apart for that day only, we keep a scrambled code made from your connection, your browser and a random value that is deleted after the day ends, so the code cannot be traced back to you afterwards. We cannot recognise the same reader on another day.
4. How this site makes money
The site earns a commission when a reader sends a request to Angi through one of our links (Angi's affiliate programme, through CJ). In the quote check the Angi link appears only when the price is a quote, not a bill already paid, and it sits above the range that leads: our sourced range, or once a slice has 30 reports, the readers' middle 80%. It is labelled “Paid link” beside the button, and the free path (the line items to ask for and the questions to put to the company) always sits next to it. Quotes inside or below the range never get a link.
The position is worked out before the link is chosen, and the link never changes it. Angi, and every termite company, never sees the reader quotes, and no company can pay to change a figure, a range or what is shown.
The disclosure beside every Angi link: “Affiliate link: we may earn a commission if you submit a request. It never changes a figure on this page.”
5. Quotes you share
The page records nothing about your quote unless you press Share. If you do, we store the state, the treatment, the job size band (not your exact size), whether it is a quote or a final bill, the price, the month, and your answers about what the price includes. No name, no company name, no email, no free text. The full privacy notice for this, including how to have a quote removed, is on our privacy page.
Questions about this method: [email protected]. The cost guide's wider method is on Methodology.