Acreage is quoted on the property, because block size and the number of outbuildings move the job far more than the floor area of the house. Ring 1300 545 489, tell us roughly how much land there is and what is standing on it, and what we quote is what you pay. The quote costs nothing, and mentioning how treed the block is helps more than the house size does.

Yes, and on a Purga property they are usually the more important half of the visit. A shed with an earth or slab floor, timber framing, stored equipment and material stacked against the walls gives a colony everything it needs while being the last place anybody looks. On long-held rural blocks there is often a second or third shed nobody has properly inspected in years. Those are the ones we ask about.

A 140 hectare reserve on Middle Road, bought by Ipswich City Council through the Enviroplan levy in 1997. It protects one of the last remaining stands of swamp tea-tree forest, which is listed nationally as a critically endangered ecological community. There is an all-abilities boardwalk, picnic facilities and toilets, it is open 6am to 6pm, and dogs are not permitted. If your block adjoins it, that boundary is the part of your property we will spend the most time on.

No, and this is the most common local mix-up. The Deebing Creek Mission site is in Deebing Heights. What is in Purga is the Purga Mission site, which the Deebing Creek community relocated to in 1914 or 1915, and the Purga Aboriginal Cemetery on Carmichaels Road, heritage listed in 2008 and still in use. The two places are historically connected, which is why the confusion persists, but they are about eight kilometres apart.

Purga sits on Warrill Creek and Purga Creek in the Bremer catchment, so creek-frontage land here can and does go under. But Purga does not appear in Ipswich City Council’s 2022 flood review list of damage-affected suburbs, and there is no flood gauge in the locality itself, the nearest being at Amberley next door. For your block, council’s flood mapping will tell you far more than any suburb-level statement.

Twelve months at minimum, and every six to nine on a creek-frontage block or one with a lot of old timber and outbuildings. QBCC guidance is annual inspection at minimum where the hazard rating is high and CSIRO’s national termite survey returns a high hazard rating for this region. Book a termite inspection and the reminders are our job from then on.

Every general pest treatment carries a full year, and anything listed on your certificate that returns inside it is re-treated at no charge. Termite jobs and rodent baiting are quoted apart and warranted apart. It is written out in full in our terms and conditions.