Termite (white ant) control or inspection which is most important?

So what is what here? Is Termite treatment in a preventative way, or termite inspection, which is the best way to go for my home?

A termite treatment when carried out to the most precise label directions will not stop termites from entering the protected building. Termite treatments are designed to stop undetected termite access, in other words to make sure that when termites do enter a structure that they do so in such a way as to be able to be detected during inspection.

Termite inspections are carried out with the knowledge that termites will generally find the deepest darkest recesses to enter a structure. Many times the first signs of termite entry will be found between two bricks in the sub floor area of a home. Often this entry point will be under a bathroom or laundry where there is a leaky pipe which is supplying the termites with a moisture source. The gap between two bricks is pretty small, often ten mm or less so when taking in to account what size a house is, compared to what it is we are looking for, it bears great similarity to searching for a needle in a hay stack!

When chemical termite control has been carried out correctly, termites are far less likely to be able to take advantage of the hidden deep dark recesses and be much more easily found.

So inspection or treatment? Ideally both! That will give you long term protection from termites, and early detection when or if they do enter. If there is some reason that makes treatment out of reach,then have regular termite inspections and learn what the signs of termite incursion are so that you can also do intermittent checks yourself. This photograph shows a very well developed termite "lead" a mud shelter tube that termites build so that they can cross areas like this brick wall without having to enter our atmosphere. Even an inexperienced person should be able to find evidence this substantial however mostly what we are looking for is only pencil thin.