It depends on whether it is a house or a duplex and how big it is, and the price is fixed before we book. Over a third of dwellings here are attached and the lots are small, so most jobs sit at the straightforward end and quotes settle quickly on the phone. Ring 1300 545 489, tell us the property type and what you are seeing, and the figure you get is the figure you pay, with no obligation. On value: CSIRO places Brisbane in a high termite risk zone and termite damage is excluded from every standard home insurance policy.

You can book a general pest treatment yourself and pay for it directly, which is often what the lease requires at the end of a tenancy. With roughly two thirds of Ellen Grove homes rented, we do this constantly. What sits with the owner is anything structural: termite inspections, barriers, rodent proofing, or work in the roof and subfloor. If you are not sure which side your problem falls on, ring 1300 545 489 and describe it. We will tell you straight and give you a written quote you can forward to the agent without having to argue the case yourself.

Realistically no, and that is the normal position here rather than bad luck. Ellen Grove was subdivided in the late 1940s and 1950s with modest dwellings built quickly during the post-war housing shortage, well before termite management systems were required. So there is usually no durable notice, no record and no working barrier. That is not a crisis, it means nobody currently knows the state of the building. An inspection tells you whether there is active work now, what the conducive conditions are, and whether a barrier or a monitoring system is the sensible retrofit. Start with an inspection.

Every twelve months at a minimum, and we would push for six to nine on the original post-war stock. The QBCC recommends a licensed pest controller inspect and report on your property every year, or more often in high hazard areas. Ellen Grove earns the shorter interval on age and on construction type: modest post-war building tends to have timber in ground contact, low subfloor clearance and marginal drainage, and on a house with no barrier the inspection is the protection rather than a check on something else. Book a termite inspection.

It does, and it is worth knowing which ones. Bullockhead Creek, Woogaroo Creek and Spinks Creek all run through or bound the suburb, which puts you in the Wolston and Bullockhead system rather than Oxley Creek. Ellen Grove is inland so it sits outside council’s coastal aerial program, and council monitors around 2,500 known freshwater sites citywide instead. Your species mix is freshwater and backyard container breeders. The container breeders are the good news, because they are on your own block: gutters, pot plant bases, bird baths, tyres, tank overflow. Those we can fix.

Same day or next, Saturdays included. Ellen Grove sits right on the corridor between Brisbane and Ipswich alongside Forest Lake and Wacol, so it is a short run and we are through most weeks. Ring 1300 545 489 and you get the genuine next available appointment rather than a place on a list. Flag anything urgent and it moves up: cockroaches through a kitchen, rats in the roof, a wasp nest by the front door. If you are an agent working to an end-of-lease date, tell us the date and we will build the booking around it rather than the other way round.

Twelve months of cover, and if the pests we dealt with turn up again in that time we re-treat at our expense. Cover extends to the pests listed on your certificate, so a standard treatment means ants, cockroaches, spiders and silverfish. Termite work, rodent baiting and bed bugs are quoted and warranted separately because they need their own cycles. In a duplex the warranty covers the half we treated, so anything coming back through a party wall from an untreated neighbour is a re-infestation from outside your boundary rather than a failure on our part, and we will say so plainly. The full version lives in our terms and conditions.