Home size sets most of it and you will know the number before anything is locked in. Housing here is overwhelmingly detached on estate lots, which keeps things simple, though a block still carrying mature orchard trees and old stumps takes longer to inspect properly than a bare lot. Phone 1300 545 489 or use the quote form and we will call you back, at no cost. For perspective on the value rather than the price, CSIRO rates Brisbane a high termite risk zone and no home insurance policy in the country pays for termite damage.

Worth knowing about rather than worried, and it is the most Pallara-specific thing on this page. The suburb was subdivided into ten-acre fruit farmlets as the Mildura Estate in 1892 and stayed orchard and dairy country for decades, so a lot of blocks kept mature trees or had stumps and root systems buried during clearing. Coptotermes acinaciformis occurs throughout Queensland and nests in precisely that material. Removing what you reasonably can helps. Where you cannot, monitoring placed between the likely nest sites and the building usually beats a barrier alone, and we will map that on the inspection.

It affects the termite inspection, and not much else that we deal with. Brisbane City Council ran a large waste disposal facility in this area from the 1950s to the 1990s, Pallara Parklands opened on the remediated site in 1997, and the Willawong Remediation Project handles soil and groundwater from that era. Contamination is an environmental and planning matter, so if that is your concern council is the right call rather than a pest controller. What is relevant to us is made ground and buried material, because fill containing timber and debris gives a colony somewhere to establish out of sight. We read the ground for it instead of guessing.

Annually as the floor, and sooner if you have just landscaped or if the block carries old orchard timber. The QBCC recommends a licensed pest controller inspect and report on your property every year, or more often in high hazard areas, and Brisbane qualifies. The reason not to stretch it here is that most homes rely on a single builder-installed system, and the National Construction Code states plainly that such a system does not stop termite activity occurring on a site. Book a termite inspection and the reminder becomes our job.

It can, and it is worth a look after any landscaping rather than before. The builder’s system depends on the slab edge staying visible so it can be inspected, and finished levels that rise above it give a colony a sheltered path from soil into the frame that passes over the treated zone entirely. Turf, mulch over weep holes, a bed built against the wall or a path poured up to the render all do the same thing, and none of it is visible once it is done. Nobody is asking you to pull the garden out. We measure where the levels sit, name the strip that needs to come back, and you fix it yourself for nothing.

Moderate, and the useful part is knowing which kind. Blunder Creek and Oxley Creek both touch the suburb with vegetation links running between them, so there is genuine freshwater habitat nearby. But Pallara is inland and never appears in Brisbane City Council’s aerial treatment notices, which target the coastal saltmarsh belt. Council monitors roughly 2,500 known freshwater sites across the city instead. So your species mix is freshwater and backyard container breeders, and container breeders live on private property, which makes most of the problem fixable at your place.

Yes, and with more than half of Pallara households being couples with children it is a question we answer most days. Everything is APVMA registered, applied at label rates by a licensed technician, and placed where pests travel rather than where children play: dust and bait into wall cavities, roof space, weep holes and cracks, with spray restricted to the building line and the external perimeter. Surfaces are dry within a couple of hours. Point out the sandpit, the trampoline, the play equipment and the pet bowls when we arrive and we will work around them. Licence 15229237, twenty million public liability.

A full year on any general pest treatment we carry out. Should the pests named on your certificate reappear inside that window, we come back and re-treat without charging you again. A standard job covers ants, cockroaches, spiders and silverfish, and that certificate is the definitive list. Termites, rodent baiting programmes and bed bugs sit outside it because each runs to a different cycle and gets quoted on its own. Do keep ours separate from the builder’s termite system, which the builder stands behind and the meter box notice documents. Read the detail in our terms and conditions.