| g'day jan, we have quiet a few mounds on my property but then our house is constructed uisng steel. i think you will find that those mounding termites aren't the ones that will invade your house, they eat mostly dry grass and straw that sort of stuff. it is the subterranian types that you generally don't see that will invade your house and aparently not all of those types are baddies. all you can do is protect your wooden structures with pest control treatments. i have also been told that those mounds are a good indication as to how much underground water you may have as aparently they won't build where there is no water for them to get to underground, seems to hold true our block has good water below and we have a good showing of mounds to boot. the best form of termite protection is your vigilence and not building garden beds along the side of your house, keep beds a good 2 meters or so away and lay loose gravel paths around the house this gives nothing for the termites to hide under while they plan an attack this counts for laying cement paths right up to the house same problem created as with garden beds. best advice in rural build with steel. len | 
