Termite test Questions and Answers (Verified
Answers) | 2024-25 Update
WDIIR: - ✔✔Wood destroying insect inspections
Whats the most important tool to use during a WDIIR: - ✔✔Flashlight
Exterior examination, probing and sounding of the interior, attic inspection, crawl space
inspection and garage inspection; - ✔✔Inspection Procedures
The purpose of a WDIIR is to: - ✔✔Report the evidence or abscence of wood destroying
organisms on the day it was made
Conditions conducive: - ✔✔Wood to earth contact, excessive cellulose debris, faulty grade,
excessive moisture, innaccessible sub area or portions of a sub area
A crawl space is innaccessible if it is smaller than _____ - ✔✔24 inches
Wood to earth contact: - ✔✔(Located in box 15 on the WDIIR) lanscape or other wood
abbuting structure and in contact with the soil
Excessice cellulose debris: - ✔✔(Located in box 16) Debris of rakebable size or larger, wood
chips in excess of 1 cubic foot, wood that is abbuting the structure or that is more than 6 inches
from, form boards remaning in concrete, tree stumps embedded in footings.
Faulty grade: - ✔✔(Located in box 17) Sloped drain toward house, stucco, floor level and
wood siding all below grade
, Excessive moisture: - ✔✔(Located in box 18) standing water, plumbing leaks
Wood destroying fungi: - ✔✔Microscopic threads not visible to the naked eye unless many
of them occur together
Brown rot: - ✔✔Called dry rot and is the most damaging
White rot: - ✔✔Destroys the lignin and cellulose in wood, has a bleaching effect
Soft rot: - ✔✔Attack green water saturated wood
Fungi can cause: - ✔✔Black mold, sap wood stains, wood decay
Inaccessible areas: - ✔✔(Box 19) (box 7) anything that you cannot move and or see behind
Insufficient ventilation: - ✔✔Exist when there is less than one sauare foot of ventilated
opening per 150 square feet of crawl space.. less than one sf. For every 1500 of sf. Of ground
covered by a vapor area.. less than 2 areas permitting cross ventilation.. excessive moisture due
to lack of ventilation
TARF: - ✔✔Termite Action Report Form. Must place tarf number on wdiir. Must be filed with
the OPM within 30 days with fees. ($2)
Records must be maintained and held for: - ✔✔3 years
A supplemental report must be prepared within: - ✔✔30 days
Answers) | 2024-25 Update
WDIIR: - ✔✔Wood destroying insect inspections
Whats the most important tool to use during a WDIIR: - ✔✔Flashlight
Exterior examination, probing and sounding of the interior, attic inspection, crawl space
inspection and garage inspection; - ✔✔Inspection Procedures
The purpose of a WDIIR is to: - ✔✔Report the evidence or abscence of wood destroying
organisms on the day it was made
Conditions conducive: - ✔✔Wood to earth contact, excessive cellulose debris, faulty grade,
excessive moisture, innaccessible sub area or portions of a sub area
A crawl space is innaccessible if it is smaller than _____ - ✔✔24 inches
Wood to earth contact: - ✔✔(Located in box 15 on the WDIIR) lanscape or other wood
abbuting structure and in contact with the soil
Excessice cellulose debris: - ✔✔(Located in box 16) Debris of rakebable size or larger, wood
chips in excess of 1 cubic foot, wood that is abbuting the structure or that is more than 6 inches
from, form boards remaning in concrete, tree stumps embedded in footings.
Faulty grade: - ✔✔(Located in box 17) Sloped drain toward house, stucco, floor level and
wood siding all below grade
, Excessive moisture: - ✔✔(Located in box 18) standing water, plumbing leaks
Wood destroying fungi: - ✔✔Microscopic threads not visible to the naked eye unless many
of them occur together
Brown rot: - ✔✔Called dry rot and is the most damaging
White rot: - ✔✔Destroys the lignin and cellulose in wood, has a bleaching effect
Soft rot: - ✔✔Attack green water saturated wood
Fungi can cause: - ✔✔Black mold, sap wood stains, wood decay
Inaccessible areas: - ✔✔(Box 19) (box 7) anything that you cannot move and or see behind
Insufficient ventilation: - ✔✔Exist when there is less than one sauare foot of ventilated
opening per 150 square feet of crawl space.. less than one sf. For every 1500 of sf. Of ground
covered by a vapor area.. less than 2 areas permitting cross ventilation.. excessive moisture due
to lack of ventilation
TARF: - ✔✔Termite Action Report Form. Must place tarf number on wdiir. Must be filed with
the OPM within 30 days with fees. ($2)
Records must be maintained and held for: - ✔✔3 years
A supplemental report must be prepared within: - ✔✔30 days
