Termite control in District 11 — Minh Phung, Binh Thoi, Phu Tho

Resolution 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 reorganised the former District 11 into four wards, the city's local administrative units since 1 July 2025. Several old wards had merged half a year before, so an address may still show an older ward number; we match it from the house number and street.

We arrange surveys in all four wards between 07:00 and 20:00 every day. District 11 is covered by appointment: the exact time is agreed when you book, once we know where to park and when the workshop or shop takes a break.

Minh Phung

The most populous of the four, formed from the old Wards 1, 7 and 16 on roughly 1.27 km²; houses, shops and small alleys run on without a gap.

Binh Thoi

Formed from the old Wards 3 and 10 and part of Ward 8, about 1.52 km², and home to Dam Sen Cultural Park.

Hoa Binh

Under 1 km², made from the old Wards 5 and 14, the smallest ward in the city after the reorganisation; small houses share walls along narrow alleys.

Phu Tho

The old Wards 11 and 15 with the rest of Ward 8, about 1.37 km²; shops face the street, with townhouse neighbourhoods behind.

Production, trade and family life have long shared the same rows of houses. Many ground floors are workshops or materials stores, stacked floor to ceiling with raw materials, moulds, paper packaging, pallets and timber shelving. They are rarely emptied and their wall bases stay hidden all year: the dark, undisturbed conditions subterranean termites prefer.

Alley houses rise several storeys on small plots, with steep stairs and often a mezzanine or timber floor added for an extra room. Walls are shared and light wells few, so a leak in a bathroom or on the roof terrace can keep a wall damp for months. University of Florida (UF/IFAS) material on the Asian subterranean termite, a species native to Southeast Asia, says it needs timber or moist soil to establish a nest, forages inside mud tubes and can seriously damage timber structures.

Once termites are in one house, their tubes can follow a shared wall, the stairwell or a service duct into the next. Caught early, an infestation needs a smaller treated area and less taken apart.

• Pallets and timber shelves with brown soil trails climbing from the floor.
• Paper sacks and cartons at the bottom of a stack gone soft, damp and mixed with soil.
• Stair treads or mezzanine boards that give slightly underfoot and sound hollow.
• Door frames and cupboards beside a bathroom with blistered paint and crumbling wood at the base.

UpClean's technicians choose the technique after the survey. Your Up specialist, who prepares the home, watches each step and cleans up, takes care of the rest:

Home with a workshop

You agree with your Up specialist which areas must be cleared. Machines, materials and finished goods are photographed, then covered or moved aside, and go back exactly where they were.

Narrow house over several floors

The technicians inspect from the ground floor to the roof terrace, stairs, mezzanine and shared wall bases included, without blocking the staircase.

Flat in an older estate

Door frames, built-in cupboards and wall bases near the bathroom are checked. If the treated area adjoins a shared wall, let the household next door or the residents' group know.

Pagoda or shrine with timber beams

The survey goes through the people who manage the site; statues and offerings are covered, and full-moon days and festivals are avoided.

No price can be given over the phone: one door frame and a workshop eaten from the pallets up into the stairs are very different jobs. After the free survey you receive one all-inclusive figure on paper, with the method, the areas to be treated, how long each must be left empty afterwards, the number of follow-up inspections and the warranty conditions. Any addition needs your written approval. The figure depends on:

• The number of floors, the floor area and how much of it is workshop or storage.
• Whether the termites are in one spot or have spread over several floors or next door.
• How much machinery and stock must be moved or covered, and whether stairs or cupboards must be drilled or opened.
• The technique and the follow-up schedule; the warranty is written into the quote for your plan.

Guide: what termite treatment cost depends on

The factors behind a quote, in more detail.

The press has described Hoa Binh ward as a place of little land and many people, and many alleys here take only a motorbike. Older estates and blocks with a management office often ask for contractors to be registered; we send the names and photos of your Up specialist and the technicians for you to pass on.

• Show us where the motorbikes can wait at the alley entrance; the team walks the equipment in.
• Pause the machines and clear a path along the workshop walls, as agreed with us.
• Shut food, dishes and children's things away, and warn neighbours if a shared wall is in the treatment area.
• Workers, family and pets stay out for the re-entry time we give, that is, how long a treated area must stay empty.

Follow-up inspections are booked as the quote sets out; we remind you and record each result in the Up Report, our photo record of every visit, with a floor-by-floor map of treated points and bait stations.

• Clear the workshop one corner at a time each quarter, and stand pallets and shelving on plastic or metal feet.
• Throw out scrap wood, old moulds and unused cartons rather than stacking them in the loft.
• Fix leaks early in the bathroom, on the roof terrace and in pipes inside the walls.
• Each rainy season, shine a torch behind cupboards, under the stairs and at the foot of door frames; leave bait stations untouched.

• Send photos of eaten packaging, crumbling treads or soil trails to 0968 726 135 on WhatsApp or Zalo, with the house and alley number.
• We survey free while the workshop is paused, then send the written quote and the hours the workshop must stop; a date is set only once you agree.
• On the day our technicians treat while your Up specialist monitors, sweeps up and puts everything back. You pay afterwards, in cash or by transfer.
• Rescheduling is free with 24 hours' notice; cancelling within 24 hours carries a 30% fee. If we are more than 15 minutes late, that visit is 10% off.

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