It depends on whether you have a character home with a walk-in subfloor or a unit, and the price is fixed before we book. Those are very different jobs, and Manly has more of both than most bayside suburbs, so a single advertised price would misrepresent half the street. Ring 1300 545 489, tell us the property type and roughly the era of the building, and the figure you get is the figure you pay. Free either way. On value: CSIRO places Brisbane in a high termite risk zone, termite damage sits outside home insurance, and pre-1946 homes were never built with a barrier.

It cuts both ways and you deserve the honest version. The advantage is real: a subfloor you can walk into gets inspected properly, unlike a slab where damage hides until it reaches the frame. The risks are equally real. Timber stumps in ground contact give termites a direct route, CSIRO names timber in ground contact, poor drainage and low subfloor clearance as the key structural risk factors, and this close to the bay metal ant capping corrodes over the decades until it stops doing its job. Clearing stored timber from under the house and fixing a downpipe are the cheap wins, and neither needs us.

We can, and it helps, but know what you are buying. Around 16 per cent of Manly dwellings are flats, and in a shared building cockroaches move through party walls, roof cavities and plumbing penetrations, breeding three to four generations a year. Treat one lot and the population next door refills the gap over the following months. The sensible sequence is to treat yours now for relief, then take a written building-wide quote to your body corporate, which is cheaper per lot than every owner paying separately twice a year forever. Details are on our commercial and body corporate page.

In three specific ways. Humidity, because a bayside subfloor holds the moisture silverfish need and that CSIRO lists among the conditions sustaining subterranean termites. Metal corrosion, because coastal air degrades ant capping over decades and corroded capping is a recognised conducive defect. And the tidal habitat itself, with mangroves, mudflats and saltmarsh along the foreshore driving mosquito and biting midge pressure. None of it is a reason not to live here. It is a reason to inspect more often than an inland suburb would need.

Twelve months as a floor, six to nine on a pre-war timber home. The QBCC recommends a licensed pest controller inspect and report annually, or more often in high hazard areas, and Manly ticks both boxes: Brisbane is a CSIRO high hazard zone, and homes built before the end of 1946, which Council classes as character buildings, had no termite management system to begin with. The upside is that a walk-in subfloor is genuinely inspectable, so an annual look here actually finds things while they are cheap. Book a termite inspection.

Yes, and food premises this close to residential units matter to the whole street. We attend after hours and on weekends so trading is not interrupted, with food-safety compliant documentation the same day, rodent stations mapped and numbered and cockroach monitors giving trend data rather than a yes or no. Monthly or quarterly schedules get set once and then run. If you live in a unit near Cambridge Parade and keep getting cockroaches no matter what you do at home, mention it when you call, because the source is often a commercial bin room or grease trap rather than anything in your kitchen. See commercial pest control.

Twelve months on every general pest treatment, and if what we treated for comes back inside that window we return and re-treat at no cost. Cover follows the pests named on your certificate: ants, cockroaches, spiders and silverfish on a standard job. Termite jobs, rodent programmes and bed bugs are priced and warranted separately. Two Manly notes. In a unit the warranty covers the lot we treated, so cockroaches arriving from an untreated flat next door are a re-infestation rather than a failure. And mosquitoes are not warranted, because the breeding habitat is tidal foreshore outside your boundary. Our terms and conditions spell it out in full.