The size of the home and whether a termite inspection runs alongside decide it, and the price is fixed before we book. Inala is almost entirely detached houses on comparable blocks, so quotes settle quickly on the phone. Ring 1300 545 489, tell us the number of bedrooms and what you have been seeing, and the number you get is the number you pay. Free either way, and no obligation. On value: CSIRO places Brisbane in a high termite risk zone and termite damage is excluded from home insurance. Our 365 Pest Protection Plans spread it over the year.

That is the normal starting position in Inala, so you are not in unusual trouble. Council records show the Housing Commission built over 4,000 dwellings here from the late 1940s to the 1970s, well before termite management systems were required, and nothing obliges an owner to retrofit one now. You have three realistic paths. Inspect annually and rely on catching activity early, which is the cheapest. Install a chemical barrier around the perimeter. Or put in a bait and monitoring system, which often suits an older home where trenching a full perimeter is awkward. We will tell you which of the three actually fits your house and roughly what each costs. Start with an inspection.

Either, and it depends what the job is. A tenant can book and pay for a general pest treatment directly, and with just over half of Inala homes rented we do it constantly, often at the end of a tenancy where the lease requires it. Anything structural is the owner’s call: termite inspections, barriers, rodent proofing, or work in the roof and subfloor. If you are not sure which side it falls on, ring 1300 545 489 and describe the situation. We will tell you straight and give you a written quote you can forward to the agent without having to argue the case yourself.

Every twelve months at a minimum, and we would argue for six to nine on the oldest housing. 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. Inala earns the shorter interval on age alone: with stock from the late 1940s to the 1970s and no original barrier, the inspection is the protection rather than a check on something else that is working. Book a termite inspection and we will hold the reminder rather than leaving it to you.

Treating where they live rather than where you see them, and nothing about this is a reflection on your housekeeping. German cockroaches live in wall voids and appliance motors, breed through three to four generations a year, and arrive in food packaging in the first place. A surface spray scatters them and pushes the survivors deeper. What works is gel bait and dust into the voids behind and under the fridge, oven and dishwasher, into cracks and along the cabinet runs, so the colony takes it back rather than avoiding a wet surface. Then a couple of practical changes around food storage and bins. That is what our full residential treatment is built to do.

Same day or next, Saturdays included. Inala sits between Brisbane and Ipswich on our regular run and it is one of the larger suburbs out this way, so we are through most weeks rather than making a special trip. Ring 1300 545 489 and you get the actual next available appointment instead of 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. For agents needing tenant access coordinated, mention it and we will handle the notice rather than passing it back.

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 and no fine print. Cover follows the pests named on your certificate, which for 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. Worth being straight on the termite side: on a house with no barrier, the annual inspection is doing the protecting, and no treatment stops termites arriving on the land. Read the detail in our terms and conditions.