It depends on whether you have a house, a unit or a duplex, and you will have a fixed price before we book. Booval has a lot more attached housing than the rest of Ipswich, and a unit is a smaller job than a detached house with a subfloor, so quoting one number for the suburb would overcharge half the people reading it. Ring 1300 545 489, tell us the property type and what you are seeing, and you will get the real figure on the call at no cost. Worth weighing against it: CSIRO puts this region in a high termite risk zone and no policy covers termite damage. The 365 Pest Protection Plans break it into instalments.

We can treat yours alone and it will help, but you should know what you are buying. Roughly a third of Booval’s housing is attached, and in a shared building cockroaches and rodents move through the roof cavity, party walls and plumbing penetrations. Treat one lot and the population next door refills the gap over the following months. The honest sequence is to treat your place now for relief, then raise a building-wide treatment with your body corporate or landlord, which is cheaper per lot than four owners each paying separately twice a year forever. We will give you a figure for the whole block so you have something concrete to take to a meeting. More on the commercial and body corporate page.

Every twelve months at a minimum. The QBCC recommends a licensed pest controller inspect and report on your property every year, or more often in high hazard areas, and Ipswich is one. Booval’s specific issue is age: the suburb was substantially built out as a mining dormitory from the 1880s onwards, and nothing from that era carries a termite management system. There is no durable notice in the meter box to reassure you either way, because the requirement did not exist. On a timber home on stumps we would suggest six to nine months. Book an inspection and we will keep the reminder.

Very likely, and the cause is moisture rather than the water itself. Booval was among the worst hit suburbs in 1974, homes were inundated in 2011, and an evacuation order covering Booval and Bundamba was issued on 27 February 2022. What tends to be left behind is saturated ground under the floor, silt in the drainage and downpipes that never got reconnected properly. Silverfish need humidity in the range of 75 to 95 per cent and a wet subfloor gives them exactly that, while CSIRO lists moisture and poor drainage among the conditions that sustain subterranean termites. We will find the wet spot and tell you what to fix rather than spraying over it.

Either, and it depends what the job is. A tenant can book and pay for a general pest treatment directly, and plenty do, particularly where the lease makes pest control the tenant’s responsibility at the end of a tenancy. Anything structural is the owner’s call: termite inspections, barriers, rodent proofing, or a building-wide treatment in a block. Booval has a high proportion of rentals and long tenancies, so if you are not sure who is responsible, ring 1300 545 489 and describe the situation. We will tell you which of the two it sits with and give you a quote you can forward to the agent without having to explain it yourself.

Same day or next, Saturdays included. Booval is minutes from the middle of Ipswich and we are through this part of the city most days, so it is a short run rather than a special trip. Phone 1300 545 489 and you will get the actual next available appointment instead of a place on a list. Anything urgent gets prioritised if you say so on the call: scratching in the roof, a wasp nest over the front steps, or termite damage you have just found in a skirting board. If you are in a unit and need to coordinate access to a shared roof space or meter cupboard, mention that too and we will work out the sequence before we arrive.

Yes, and in an older Booval home it usually failed for a specific reason. Supermarket surface sprays are repellents, so they scatter rather than kill, and in a building with shared walls and an open roof cavity the survivors simply relocate a few metres and come back. German cockroaches in particular go deeper into wall voids and appliance motors and get harder to treat each time. Ant baits fail when the bait does not suit the species, because nothing gets carried home to the queen. Tell us what you used and where, since it narrows the species and the spread, then the full residential treatment targets the harbourage instead of the surface.

Twelve months on every general pest treatment. If what we treated for comes back inside that window, we return and re-treat at no cost. The cover follows the pests named on your certificate, which on a standard job means ants, cockroaches, spiders and silverfish. Termite work, rodent baiting and bed bugs are quoted and warranted separately because they run on different cycles. One thing specific to attached housing: the warranty covers the lot we treated. If cockroaches come back from an untreated unit next door, that is a re-infestation from outside your boundary rather than a treatment failure, and we will say so honestly rather than argue with you about it. The exact wording is in our terms and conditions.