The home decides it and the price is fixed before anything is booked. Size, slab or subfloor, and which pests we are treating are the three variables. A 1970s lowset in Springwood and a new build in Yarrabilba are genuinely different jobs, and one advertised number stretched across 957 square kilometres and five decades of housing would be wrong for most people reading it. So we quote instead. Ring 1300 545 489 and a couple of minutes on the phone gets you a real figure, or send the quote form and we will call back. Free either way. Set against the cost: CSIRO places this region in a high termite risk zone and termite damage falls outside home insurance. Our 365 Pest Protection Plans spread it across the year.

Twelve months minimum. The QBCC recommends a licensed pest controller inspect and report on your property annually, or more often in high hazard areas. For a home backing onto Daisy Hill Conservation Park, Venman Bushland National Park or the Scrubby Creek corridor, six to nine months is the better call, because Coptotermes acinaciformis occurs throughout Queensland, nests in living gums and stumps, and forages up to 50 metres out. Homes built before the 1990s were never covered by the durable notice regime at all, so there is no paperwork to reassure you either way. Book a termite inspection.

It is a good start and it is not the finish. Two things sit behind that. First, chemical barriers have a finite working life. The long-lived organochlorine soil treatments used up to the mid 1990s are gone, everything since is measured in years, and the QBCC guide sets out the maintenance a system needs, top-ups included, which is a step most owners never take. Second, and nobody tells homeowners this at handover, the National Construction Code states outright that installing a system will not stop termite activity occurring on the site. It reduces the risk of concealed entry. Read the durable notice in your meter box for the install date and chemical life, then book an inspection.

Yes. Everything used is APVMA registered and applied at label rates by a licensed technician, and placement does as much work as product selection. Bait and dust are pushed into wall voids, roof cavities and cracks, and spray runs the skirting lines and the outside of the building. Treated surfaces are dry within a couple of hours. Fish, birds, reptiles, chooks or a pet on medication all warrant a mention when you book, and we will change the products and the running order to suit. Rodent bait always goes into lockable tamper-resistant stations, no exceptions. Licence 15229237 and twenty million in public liability sit behind the work. Detail is on the residential pest control page.

No, stay where you are. Keep kids and pets out of rooms as they are treated and off external surfaces until dry, about one to two hours, and that is the sum of it. No day off work, no night elsewhere. Clearing access before we arrive is the thing that helps most: the roof void hatch, the subfloor entry if there is one, and the perimeter, especially the narrow side where the fence crowds the wall. If you are renting and the landlord or agent arranged the treatment, the real estate and body corporate page explains how entry notices and reporting are handled. Book on 1300 545 489 or through the quote form.

Same day or next day is standard and we work Saturdays. Logan is roughly 957 square kilometres across twelve divisions and we cover it end to end: Springwood, Shailer Park and Daisy Hill in the north, through Browns Plains, Marsden and Crestmead, down to Beenleigh, Loganholme, Jimboomba and Greenbank. Ring 1300 545 489 and you will be told the real next available appointment rather than added to a list. Anything urgent, rats in the roof, a wasp nest at the front door, termites you have just uncovered, gets prioritised if you say so on the call. Everything else gets booked around your schedule.

Yes, and it is where a lot of customers start. Supermarket surface sprays are repellents, so they scatter a population instead of killing a colony. With German cockroaches the survivors head deeper into wall voids and appliance motors and the next treatment gets harder. With ants the colony splits and fresh trails appear in two new spots within a fortnight. Baits fail when the bait type does not suit the species, because nothing gets carried home. Nobody is going to give you a hard time for having a go first. Tell us what you used and where you put it, because it narrows both the species and the spread, and then the full residential treatment goes after the harbourage rather than the surface.

Every general pest treatment carries twelve months. The pests we treated for come back inside that window and we return and re-treat at no cost, without a debate about it. Cover follows what is named on your certificate, so a standard treatment means ants, cockroaches, spiders and silverfish. Termite work, rodent baiting programs and bed bugs are quoted and warranted separately because they need their own treatment cycle. Fire ants are not warranted by anyone commercially, because they are regulated biosecurity matter handled through the national program rather than by private operators. The terms and conditions carry the exact wording, and ongoing cover runs through the 365 Pest Protection Plans.

No, and no private operator can, because fire ants are regulated biosecurity matter under the Biosecurity Act 2014. Logan sits squarely inside the program area, so treatment and the movement of soil, mulch, hay and turf are all controlled. Report suspected fire ants to the National Fire Ant Eradication Program on 13 22 68, and read Logan City Council’s fire ant page for what your general biosecurity obligation means as a landholder. Council also runs broadscale suppression on its own land. What we can do is identify them on site so you are not guessing at a photo on the internet, and treat every other ant species on the property. Council’s mosquito program covers the freshwater and saltmarsh breeding sites around the lower Logan and Albert.