It depends on the size of the home and whether a termite inspection runs alongside the general treatment, and the price is fixed before we book. Forest Lake is unusually consistent housing, mostly detached slab homes on similar blocks, so quotes here are quick to settle on the phone. Ring 1300 545 489, tell us roughly the size of the house and what you are seeing, and the number you get is the number you pay. Free either way. Against the cost: CSIRO places Brisbane in a high termite risk zone and termite damage is excluded from home insurance. Our 365 Pest Protection Plans spread the cost across the year.

Almost certainly not, and this is the single most important thing about living in Forest Lake. Construction of the estate began in 1990, residents moved in from 1994, and the suburb went from 6,468 people in 1996 to over 21,000 by 2006. So most of this suburb is twenty-five to thirty years old and the barriers went in at the same time. Chemical soil barriers last years, not decades. Find the durable notice in your meter box: the National Construction Code requires it to state the installation date and the chemical’s life expectancy, and the QBCC guide sets out the maintenance a system needs. Book an inspection.

Every twelve months. 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. There is a particular reason not to stretch it here. CSIRO’s survey figures are adjusted to a standard 30-year-old house, and that is exactly what Forest Lake now is, en masse. Homes backing onto the lake parkland, an Oxley Creek reserve or the Blunder Creek headwaters should sit at six to nine months, because mature trees within 50 metres are where a colony nests. Book a termite inspection and we will hold the reminder.

Very possibly, and on a thirty-year-old slab home it is usually not one big change but three decades of small ones. Your builder’s system relies on the slab edge staying exposed and inspectable. Turf laid above it, a raised garden bed against the wall, mulch piled over the weep holes, a new path or a concrete slab poured up to the render all give termites a covered route from soil to frame that passes straight over the treated zone, and none of it shows from above. Paving over weep holes is the one we find most in this suburb. Get an inspection after landscaping rather than before, and we will tell you which strip to pull back.

Because you have a 10.9 hectare constructed lake with a 2.7 kilometre perimeter, Oxley Creek running through the suburb and the Blunder Creek headwaters underneath it. Here is the useful part though. Brisbane City Council’s aerial helicopter program targets coastal saltmarsh and does not cover Forest Lake, so your mosquitoes are freshwater and container-breeding species rather than saltmarsh ones. That is good news, because container breeders are largely breeding on private property. Blocked gutters, pot plant bases, bird baths, old tyres, a poorly sealed rainwater tank and the low corner of the yard are the real sources, and every one of those is fixable. Then we treat the shaded vegetation they rest in.

Same day or next, Saturdays included. Forest Lake sits between Brisbane and Ipswich and we run technicians through here every week, so it is on the regular route rather than a special trip. Ring 1300 545 489 and you get the actual next available appointment rather than a place on a list. Anything urgent moves up if you flag it on the call: scratching in the roof, a wasp nest over the front door, or termite damage you have just found in a skirting board or door frame. With over eight thousand homes here we are usually in the suburb on any given week anyway, which tends to mean genuine same-day availability.

Yes, and it is the most common reason people ring. Supermarket surface sprays are repellents, so they scatter the population instead of killing the colony. With ants the colony splits and you get fresh trails in two new places a fortnight later. With cockroaches the survivors move deeper into wall voids and appliance motors and each treatment gets harder. Ant baits fail when the bait type does not suit the species, because nothing gets carried home to the queen. And with mosquitoes a can of spray does nothing about the water they are breeding in. Tell us what you used and where, then the full residential treatment targets the harbourage instead of the surface.

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 to you. No argument and no fine print gymnastics. The cover follows the pests named on your certificate, which for a standard job means ants, cockroaches, spiders and silverfish. Termite work, rodent baiting programs and bed bugs are quoted and warranted separately because they run on different cycles. Mosquitoes are not warranted, because a 10.9 hectare lake and two creek systems sit outside your boundary and outside anyone’s control. What we will do is remove every breeding site on your own property and be honest about the rest. You will find the precise wording in our terms and conditions.