We have a beautiful deck that the previous owners built around a huge oak tree, about 3' in diameter. The tree is located about four feet from the house, and drops all kinds of junk on the roof, deck, and yard all year long, including dead branches! One of our yearly projects has been to have the tree removed -- thank goodness! Our concern now is that the stump is encircled by this deck and a beautiful built in circular bench, therefore cannot be ground down by a stump grinder - unless we pull off the deck and reconstruct - no thanks! So does anyone think that termites will infest this stump? If we use the nitrogen to kill it, will the chemical also keep termites away? Since this tree is only four feet from the house, as you can imagine, we are concerned about our options!

Thanks for any advice from anyone out there!!

--The Tree Deck Family