It depends on the property, and you will have a fixed price before anything is booked. Four things move it: the size of the home, whether it is slab or subfloor, house or unit, and which pests we are chasing. We quote rather than publish a price list, because an advertised number across a city with this much variation in housing would be wrong for most of the people reading it, and it always ends in a variation on the day. Ring 1300 545 489 and a few questions will get you a real figure, or use the quote form and we will call you back. Quotes are free. Against the cost, note that CSIRO puts Brisbane in a high termite risk zone and termite damage sits outside home insurance entirely.

Twelve months is the floor, not the target. The QBCC recommends a licensed pest controller inspect and report on your property every year, or more often in high hazard areas, and Brisbane is one, so a timber home on stumps or anything backing onto a creek corridor is better served at six to nine months. The reason people stretch it is that nothing looks wrong, which is the whole problem: a Coptotermes colony forages up to 50 metres from its nest and eats from the inside out, so the damage bill is already set by the time anything is visible from a hallway. Book a termite inspection and we will hold the annual reminder for you.

Yes, and the reason is placement as much as product. Everything we use is registered with the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority and applied at label rates by a licensed technician, but the bigger safety factor is that it goes where pests travel and your family does not: into wall voids, roof spaces and cracks as bait or dust, along skirting boards and the external perimeter as spray. Give it a couple of hours and treated surfaces are dry. Flag fish tanks, birds, reptiles or a pet on medication when you book and we will change both the products and the order we work in. Licence 15229237, twenty million in public liability. More on the residential page.

No. Stay put, keep kids and pets clear of rooms as they are being done and off external surfaces until dry, and that is the whole ask. Nobody needs a day off work or a night in a hotel over a general treatment. The single exception is structural fumigation for the West Indian drywood termite, where the house gets tented and does have to be empty. That is a rare and very specific job and you would know weeks ahead, not on the morning. If you are a tenant or an agent coordinating access, the real estate and body corporate page sets out how entry notices work.

Same day or next day is normal, Saturdays included. We are based around Ipswich but run technicians across Brisbane every week, so a northside job is no harder to reach than a southside one. Call 1300 545 489 and you will be told the actual next available slot rather than joining a list and waiting on a callback. Wasp nest over the front door, scratching in the roof, mud trails you just found behind a skirting board: say so on the phone and it moves up the run. Anything that is not urgent, we will book around your week instead of ours.

Yes, and it is the single most common way people arrive here. Supermarket surface sprays are repellents, which means they scatter a population instead of killing a colony. With German cockroaches that pushes the survivors further into wall voids and appliance motors and makes the next treatment harder. Ant baits fail for the opposite reason: the wrong bait for the species never gets carried home to the queen. There is no lecture coming. Tell us what you used and where you put it, because that genuinely narrows down both the species and how far it has travelled, and then we treat the harbourage instead of the surface. That is the whole design of a full residential treatment.

Twelve months on every general pest treatment. The pests we treated come back inside that window, we come back and re-treat, and it costs you nothing. No argument, no fine print gymnastics, just ring us. What is covered is what is named on your certificate, which for a standard job means ants, cockroaches, spiders and silverfish. Termite work, rodent baiting programs and bed bugs run on different cycles so they are quoted and warranted on their own terms. Worth being straight about: no termite system stops termites reaching a property. The National Construction Code puts it plainly, a system reduces the risk of concealed entry. That is precisely why the annual inspection matters. Full wording sits in the terms and conditions.

We can seal the roof so they cannot get back in, which is the part that actually solves it. Possums are protected native wildlife under the Nature Conservation Act 1992, and the Queensland Government is clear that a trapped possum must be released within 25 metres of where it was caught. Trapping therefore just hands your roof to the next possum on the street. The fix is finding every entry point, closing it once the animal is out, killing the scent marking and putting a nest box in a nearby tree. Trapping or relocating protected wildlife requires a damage mitigation permit. While we are up there we check for rodents and termite activity too.

Yes, and in a unit block the framing matters: German cockroaches are a building problem, not an apartment problem, because roughly a quarter of Brisbane’s dwellings are flats and the pest moves through shared structure. We treat bin rooms, risers, plant rooms and shared kitchens, map rodent stations and hand over the paperwork a body corporate or an auditor will ask for. Cafés, childcare centres, medical rooms and retail get serviced after hours on a monthly or quarterly schedule with food-safety compliant documentation. Note that Brisbane City Council’s role on private property is to investigate and advise on rodents, not to treat. See commercial and body corporate.