It comes down to the home, and the price is fixed before we book. Most houses here are modern slab builds on compact lots, which is the straightforward end of the work, so a quote usually takes about two minutes to reach. What shifts it is the size of the home and whether a termite inspection runs alongside the general treatment. We would rather price your actual house than advertise a number and then adjust it upward once someone is standing in front of it. Ring 1300 545 489 or send the quote form and you will get a call back. Free. Worth weighing against it: CSIRO places this region in a high termite risk zone and no standard policy covers termite damage.

Yes, and new homes are precisely the ones owners wrongly assume are safe. A new build sits on disturbed soil that often has construction off-cuts buried in it, which is what makes new buildings vulnerable during their first years. Your builder installed a system to AS 3660.1 and fixed a durable notice in the meter box with the install date and the chemical’s expected life on it. That is a record, not a guarantee, and the National Construction Code says outright a system will not stop termite activity on the site. The QBCC recommends annual inspections. Book yours here.

Every twelve months, starting the first year you own the place rather than five years in. The QBCC recommends a licensed pest controller inspect and report annually, or more often in high hazard areas, and Ripley is one. The annual visit also keeps your builder’s system valid on paper, because the QBCC guide sets out maintenance requirements for chemical barriers and skipping them can undercut a claim later when it matters. One specific trigger: if you have just finished landscaping, get the inspection sooner rather than later. Bridging the slab edge with a new garden bed is the fastest way to hand back the protection you already paid for. Book a termite inspection.

Yes. Products are APVMA registered and applied at label rates by a licensed technician, and they are placed where pests travel rather than where your family does: bait and dust into wall voids, roof spaces and cracks, spray along skirting boards and the external perimeter. Dry within a couple of hours. On a compact Ripley lot with a new lawn and young kids there is a practical version of this too. Show us where the play equipment, the sandpit and the pet water bowls are and we will work around them rather than near them. Fish, birds and reptiles just need flagging before we arrive. Licence 15229237, twenty million public liability. More on the residential page.

No. Kids and pets out of rooms as they are treated, off external surfaces until dry, one to two hours, and that is everything. No day off needed. Clearing a few things helps the job: the roof void hatch, the meter box so the durable notice can be read, and the side path where the fence runs close to the wall. One thing specific to a new home: if you are still inside the builder’s defect liability period, say so, and anything we find that reads as a builder’s issue rather than yours gets noted that way in the report so you have something to take back to them. Get it booked on 1300 545 489, or send the quote form through.

Usually same day or next, Saturdays included. We are based around Ipswich, so Ripley, South Ripley, Deebing Heights, White Rock, Raceview and Yamanto are short runs and we are through the valley most weeks regardless. Call 1300 545 489 and you get the actual next available slot, not a promise that someone will be in touch. A wasp nest over the front door, scratching in a two-year-old roof, mud trails on a fence: mention it on the phone and it moves up the run. We are in Springfield Lakes and Ipswich constantly and can usually combine the trip.

Yes, and in a new estate it is close to a rite of passage. Hardware store sprays repel rather than kill, so they scatter a population instead of finishing a colony, and coastal brown ants are the worst possible case for that: multiple queens, spread by budding, so scattering them just seeds the next stretch of lawn or the neighbour’s yard, which then comes straight back to you. Baits fail when the type is wrong for the species and nothing gets carried home. No one is going to give you grief for trying. Tell us what you used and where you put it, because it helps pin the species and the spread, and then the full residential treatment targets harbourage instead of surfaces.

Twelve months on every general pest treatment. What we treated for returns inside that window and we come back and re-treat at no charge, no argument. Cover follows the pests named on your certificate, which for a standard job means ants, cockroaches, spiders and silverfish. Termite work, rodent baiting programs and bed bugs run to different cycles so they are quoted and warranted separately. Keep this distinct from your builder’s termite management system, which is warranted by the builder and recorded on the durable notice in your meter box. Two separate things, two separate pieces of paper, and it is worth knowing which one you are relying on. Full wording sits in our terms and conditions.

A fair bit, and this is the defining Ripley problem. Every time a neighbouring lot gets scraped, the ant and spider populations living in that ground get pushed into the houses either side, and no amount of treating your kitchen fixes a source sitting twenty metres away and moving again next month. What works is a treated external perimeter acting as a barrier rather than a knockdown, targeted baiting for the species we actually identify on site, and repeat treatment timed to the construction next door instead of one visit and hope. With the Ripley Valley PDA planned for 48,750 dwellings, that pressure runs for years, which is exactly the problem our 365 Pest Protection Plans exist to solve.