It depends on whether you have a house or a townhouse, and the price is fixed before we book. Around a fifth of dwellings here are attached, and a townhouse is a smaller job than a four-bedroom detached home, so a single advertised number would overcharge a lot of people in this suburb. Ring 1300 545 489, tell us the property type and what you are seeing, and you get the real figure on that call at no charge. Worth weighing against it: CSIRO puts Brisbane in a high termite risk zone and no policy covers termite damage. Our 365 Pest Protection Plans break it into instalments.

Genuinely less bad, and it is worth understanding why rather than just being told they are. The saltmarsh mosquito that dominates the foreshore breeds in brackish pools flooded by the highest tides, and Brisbane City Council treats more than 20,000 hectares of that coastal habitat. Manly West is inland with no bay or creek frontage, so your dominant species is the container breeder that lives in backyard water. That is much better news, because it means most of your mosquito problem is on your own block and is genuinely fixable: gutters, pot plant bases, bird baths, tyres, tank overflow.

Get the complex treated rather than the lot, because in a shared building the population lives in the structure. German cockroaches move through the roof cavity, party walls and plumbing penetrations, and treating one townhouse while the other five go untouched means it refills over a few months. We will treat yours now for relief, then give you a written building-wide figure to take to the body corporate. Per lot it works out cheaper than everyone paying separately twice a year indefinitely, and it is the only version that actually ends the cycle. Details sit on the commercial and body corporate page.

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. Manly West is largely post-war, which means most homes are decades past the working life of their original chemical barrier, and on the older stock there may be no durable notice to check at all. If you have landscaped, paved or laid new turf recently, get one done sooner, because burying the slab edge is the fastest way to give up the protection you already have. Book a termite inspection.

Yes, and with four large schools in this suburb it is a regular part of what we do here. School and childcare work runs to a different standard: attendance outside hours or during breaks, low-toxicity products placed where children cannot reach them, bait and dust into voids rather than sprayed surfaces, and documentation that satisfies whoever asks for it. Ant nests in playground soft-fall, wasps in eaves and equipment, and rodents around bin areas and canteens are the usual jobs. Products are APVMA registered and applied at label rates by a licensed technician. Licence 15229237, twenty million public liability. See commercial pest control.

Usually same day or next, Saturdays included. Manly West is the largest bayside suburb by population, so we are here most weeks anyway and it is never a special trip. Call 1300 545 489 and you will be given a real appointment time rather than a waiting list. Flag anything urgent on the call and it moves up: a wasp nest by the front door, scratching in the roof, termite damage you have just found. If you need a slot that works around school pick-up, say so and we will book it properly rather than giving you a vague window.

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 and bed bugs are quoted and warranted separately because they run on different cycles. In a townhouse the warranty covers the lot we treated, so cockroaches walking back in from an untreated neighbour are a re-infestation from outside your boundary rather than a treatment failure, and we will say so honestly rather than argue about it. It is written in plain terms in our terms and conditions.