How much of the block you want covered is what decides it, and the price is fixed before we book. A house on its own is one number. The house plus the shed, the feed store and the tank stand is another, and across two acres that gap is significant. A published price would either overcharge the small jobs or undercharge the acreage, and neither is a decent way to begin a relationship with a customer. Call 1300 545 489 with the block size and what you have been seeing and you will get a real figure on that call, free and with no obligation. On value rather than price: CSIRO places this region in a high termite risk zone, no policy covers termite damage, and our 365 Pest Protection Plans spread the cost.

Probably not, and this is the single most useful thing to know about Jimboomba’s housing. The bulk of it went up between the mid 1990s and 2010, after the long-lived organochlorine soil treatments were withdrawn, and the chemicals used across that period are rated in years rather than decades. Go and read the durable notice in your meter box. The National Construction Code requires it to state the installation date and, where a chemical was used, its life expectancy, and the QBCC guide sets out the maintenance a system needs. Then book an inspection, because nothing legally obliges an owner to replace an expired treatment and almost nobody has.

Yearly at minimum. The QBCC recommends a licensed pest controller inspect and report annually, or more often in high hazard areas, and on acreage carrying retained gums and old stumps we would argue for every six to nine months. Coptotermes acinaciformis occurs throughout Queensland, nests in stumps and tree bases, and forages up to 50 metres from the nest. On former grazing land with timber buried in it, that is a great many potential nest sites sitting within reach of your house. Book a termite inspection and the reminder is ours to keep track of.

Yes, and on acreage the answer needs more detail than a yes. Products are APVMA registered and applied at label rates by a licensed technician: bait and dust into wall voids, roof spaces and cracks, spray along skirting and the external perimeter. Dry in a couple of hours. The part that matters out here is everything else living on the property. Horses, chooks, working dogs, the dam, the vegetable garden. Tell us what is there before we arrive and both the products and their placement change. Rodent bait goes into lockable tamper-resistant stations without exception, never loose in a shed where a dog or a bird gets to it first. Licence 15229237, twenty million public liability. See the residential page.

No. Kids and pets clear of rooms while they are being treated, off external surfaces until dry, roughly one to two hours, and that is the whole disruption. No day off, no moving out. Clearing access to the roof void hatch, the subfloor entry and the perimeter helps, as does shutting dogs and horses away from where we are working. If you are working away and want the external done first, we will split the job and come back for the internal at no extra charge rather than have you rearrange your week around us. Ring 1300 545 489 or send the quote form and you will get a call straight back.

Same day or next day is normal and we work Saturdays. Technicians run the Mount Lindesay corridor most weeks, so Jimboomba, Flagstone, South Maclean, North Maclean, Logan Village, Cedar Grove and Munruben are all part of a regular route rather than a favour. Ring 1300 545 489 and you will get the genuine next available slot instead of a vague promise of a callback. Rats in the roof, a wasp nest by the back steps, mud trails on a fence post you spotted this morning: mention it and it gets prioritised. We are through Greenbank constantly and can often combine the trip.

Yes, and it accounts for a good share of our phone calls. Hardware store sprays repel instead of killing, so they scatter an ant or cockroach population rather than ending the colony, and scattering a multi-queen ant colony just seeds it into the next patch of lawn. Over-the-counter rodent bait thrown loose into a shed fails differently: it gets cached, taken by the wrong animal, or ignored entirely in favour of the feed sitting beside it. There is no judgement in this. Tell us what you used and where, because it helps identify the species and how far it has spread, and the full residential treatment is built around treating harbourage rather than surfaces.

Twelve months on every general pest treatment. If what we treated for comes back inside that window, we return and re-treat and it costs you nothing. The cover follows the pests named on your certificate, which on a standard job is ants, cockroaches, spiders and silverfish. Termites, rodent baiting programs and bed bugs sit outside it and are quoted and warranted separately, because they run to a different cycle. Straight talk on the termite side: no barrier prevents termites arriving on the property. The National Construction Code describes a system as reducing the risk of concealed entry, not eliminating the insect, which is why annual inspections do the actual work. Full wording in the terms and conditions.

Baiting alone will not, and that is the honest answer. On an acreage block the food source is nearly always the shed: feed bags, birdseed, dog biscuits, fallen fruit, a compost heap. A baiting program knocks the current population down and proofing is what keeps the next one out. Logan City Council is direct that controlling rodents on your own property falls to you, and the practical list is sealing holes in walls, covering grates and pipes, storing feed in sealed bins and keeping the yard tidy. We run bait in lockable tamper-resistant stations, map where every one of them sits, and come back to check the take rather than handing you a box of blocks and leaving. Ongoing station servicing sits inside our 365 Pest Protection Plans.