Do not store timber, refuse, firewood or similar materials against or close to your house or building. Remember, Termites love timber!

Clean up any piles of branches or pieces of wood in your backyard.

Remove all stumps and dead trees. Stumps and dead trees represent a huge food resource for termites with a large area in direct contact with the soil and provide ideal sites for feeding and nesting.

Do not use untreated bark chips in your garden or garden beds. Wood-chip mulch should be removed or replaced with stones or termite-resistant mulch.

Maintain a 75mm high clear area around the edge of your home to allow visual inspection of possible termite activity up the side of your foundation concrete slab.

Rake garden beds away from your home to expose weep holes and the edge of your concrete slab.

Replace wooden lawn ornaments with non-wood items.

Raise fence posts, deck posts and stair stringers onto concrete or use an alternative to wood for building.

Ensure that wooden sheds are raised above ground.

Check you don't have a wooden platform under aluminum or vinyl sheds. Build a platform of metal, concrete or PVC for stacking firewood.

Fix any leaking plumbing, wet areas caused by poor drainage, leaks from the roof or other major areas of dampness as termites thrive where there is a source of moisture.

Finally, regularly inspect the perimeter of your home for signs of termite damage or evidence of access up from the ground and into you home (look for termite mud leads ). By keeping the edge of your home free of un-necessary obstructuction, visual inspection becomes easier as the edge of your home around the foundation slab is the high risk point of entry for termites into your valuable home.