It depends on the home and the price is fixed before we book. Most houses here are new slab builds on estate lots, which is the straightforward end of the work, so a quote usually takes a couple of minutes on the phone. What shifts it is the size of the home and whether a termite inspection runs alongside the general treatment. Ring 1300 545 489 or send the quote form through and we will call you back. Free. On value: CSIRO places this region in a high termite risk zone and no standard policy covers termite damage. The 365 Pest Protection Plans spread it across the year instead.

This is the defining Flagstone problem and there is a real answer to it. With around five hundred new homes going up every year and 1,600 more lots approved, the ground around you is being turned over constantly, and every scrape pushes the ant and spider populations living in it into the houses either side. Treating your kitchen achieves nothing against a source twenty metres away. What works is a treated external perimeter acting as a genuine barrier, targeted baiting for the species we identify on site, and repeat treatment timed to the construction rather than one visit and hope. With the PDA planned for around 51,500 homes, this runs for years, which is exactly what our 365 Pest Protection Plans exist for.

Yes, and new homes are the ones owners most often assume are safe. A new build sits on disturbed soil that frequently has construction off-cuts buried in it, which is what makes new buildings vulnerable during their first years. Your builder installed a system to AS 3660.1 and fixed a durable notice in the meter box with the install date and chemical life on it. That is a record, not a guarantee, and the National Construction Code says outright a system will not stop termite activity on the site. In a suburb where the soil around you is being turned over continuously, that matters more here than most places. Book an inspection.

Every twelve months, starting your first year in the house rather than five years down the track. The QBCC recommends a licensed pest controller inspect and report annually, or more often in high hazard areas. The annual visit also keeps your builder’s system valid on paper, because the QBCC guide sets out maintenance requirements for chemical barriers and skipping them can undercut a claim when it actually matters. One local trigger: if the lot next door has just been built out or you have finished your own landscaping, book sooner rather than waiting for the anniversary. Book a termite inspection.

Possibly, and it is the most common way a perfectly good barrier gets defeated in a new estate. Your builder’s system works partly because the slab edge stays exposed and inspectable. Bank turf, mulch, a garden bed or a retaining wall against it and you have handed termites a covered route from soil to frame straight over the treated zone, invisible from outside. Turf laid above the slab edge does it. So does mulch piled over the weep holes. This does not mean undoing the garden. It means we check where the finished levels sit and tell you which strip to pull back, usually 75 to 100 millimetres. Get an inspection after landscaping, not before.

No, and no private operator can, because fire ants are regulated biosecurity matter under the Biosecurity Act 2014. Flagstone sits inside the program area, and treatment plus the movement of soil, mulch, hay and turf are all controlled, which in a suburb with this much earthworks going on is worth taking seriously. Report suspected fire ants to the National Fire Ant Eradication Program on 13 22 68. Logan City Council also undertakes broadscale suppression treatment on council owned and managed land and explains your general biosecurity obligation as a landholder. What we can do is identify them on site so you are not guessing at a photo, and treat every other ant species on your property.

Same or next day as a rule, Saturdays included. We run technicians down the Mount Lindesay corridor most weeks, so Flagstone, Jimboomba, New Beith, South Maclean and Greenbank are all on a regular route rather than a special trip out. Ring 1300 545 489 and you will get the genuine next available slot instead of a callback promise. Flag anything urgent on the call and it moves up: a wasp nest over the front door, scratching in a two-year-old roof, or ants suddenly everywhere because the block behind you got cleared on Monday. With forty new families arriving a month, we are out this way constantly.

Twelve months on every general pest treatment. If the pests we treated for return inside that window we come back and re-treat at no cost, no argument. What is covered is what your certificate names: ants, cockroaches, spiders and silverfish on a standard treatment. Termite work, rodent baiting programs and bed bugs are quoted and warranted separately. Two Flagstone specifics. Keep this separate from your builder’s termite management system, which the builder warrants and the durable notice records. And fire ants are not warranted by anyone commercially, because they are regulated biosecurity matter handled through the national program. The terms and conditions set out the rest.