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Carpenter Ant Prevention

There are a number of things that can be done to a structure to aid in carpenter ant prevention. 

Almost all of these steps will also make any type of treatment program more successful, faster, and with less use of pesticide.

Carpenter ant prevention starts with reducing the amount of vegetation around your house.  Carpenter ants eat other insects and insect secretions - less vegetation = fewer insects = less food for carpenter ants

Reducing the amount of vegetation around your house reduces ant access.  Overhanging trees and shrubs could give the ants ways to get on and off your home - into vegetation that makes them difficult to notice or into vegetation that makes it difficult to treat through.

Reduce the amount or moisture around your home.  That can mean repairing and or replacing rotting steps and decks, cleaning your gutters, making sure the flashing around your chimney doesn't leak, keeping your siding at least 4 inches away from ground level, finding better ways and places to stack your firewood, adjusting your sprinklers so you don't water your siding, and once again - reducing the amount of vegetation around your home.

These are good starts, and we certainly recommend all of them and more at http://pestfree.net/get-rid-of-ants/ant-prevention.php, but do remember that in the end, your home is within a few hundred yards of a main nest site and your home is made out of wood, therefore it will always be a little attractive. 

There is a home somewhere under all that greenery.