It depends on the home, and you will have a fixed price on the phone before anything is booked. Most houses here are post-2000 slab builds, which sits at the straightforward end of the work, so the quote usually takes about two minutes. What moves 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 revise it once someone is standing in your driveway. Ring 1300 545 489 or send the quote form through and we will call you straight back. Quotes are free. Worth weighing against the cost: CSIRO places South East Queensland in a high termite risk zone, and termite damage is excluded from every standard home insurance policy.

Every twelve months, and in Springfield Lakes that should start the first year you own the house rather than once something looks wrong. The QBCC recommends a licensed pest controller inspect and report on your property every year, or more often in high hazard areas. The specific reason it matters here is that almost every home in the suburb relies on a single builder’s barrier installed at construction, and garden beds, mulch and retaining walls sitting against the slab edge can bridge that barrier without leaving a mark you would ever notice from outside. It is the most common problem we find in this suburb. If you have just landscaped, book sooner. Book a termite inspection and we will keep the annual reminder for you.

Yes. Everything we use is registered with the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority and applied at label rates by a licensed technician, but the bigger safety factor is placement: it goes where pests travel and your family does not. Bait and dust go into wall voids, roof spaces and cracks. Spray runs along skirting boards and the external perimeter. Treated surfaces are dry within a couple of hours. On a Springfield Lakes block with a young family, just show us where the play equipment, the sandpit and the pet bowls are and we will work around them. Fish tanks, birds, reptiles or a pet on medication need a mention when you book. Licence 15229237 and twenty million public liability. More on the residential pest control page.

No, you can stay. Keep children and pets out of rooms while they are being treated and off treated external surfaces until dry, which is usually one to two hours, and that is the whole requirement. Nobody needs to take a day off work or book somewhere to stay. What genuinely helps is clearing access before we arrive: the roof void hatch, the meter box so we can read the durable notice for your termite system, and the side path where the fence sits close to the wall. On a compact lot that narrow side is often where the treatment matters most and where the gear tends to be stacked. Book on 1300 545 489 or through the quote form.

Usually same day or next day, Saturdays included. We are based in and around Ipswich, so Springfield Lakes, Springfield Central, Brookwater, Augustine Heights and Camira are short runs and we are through here every week. Ring 1300 545 489 and you will be told the actual next available appointment rather than being added to a list and waiting on a callback. If it is urgent, say so on the call: a wasp nest by the front door, scratching in the roof, or mud trails you have just found on a fence or a retaining wall. It moves up the run. Anything that is not urgent, we will book around your week. We are also out to Ripley and Greenbank constantly and can often combine the trip.

Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons people ring. Supermarket surface sprays are repellents, so they scatter a population rather than killing the colony. With coastal brown ants, which are the ones we see most around here, scattering actively makes it worse: the colony has multiple queens and spreads by budding, so all you have done is seed the next stretch of lawn or the neighbour’s yard, and it comes straight back. Baits fail when the type does not suit the species, because the workers never carry it home to the queen. Nobody is going to give you a hard time for having a go first. Tell us what you used and where you put it, because it genuinely helps identify the species and the spread, and then we treat the harbourage instead of the surface. That is what a full residential treatment is built to do.

Every general pest treatment comes with a twelve month warranty. If the pests we treated for return inside that window, we come back and re-treat at no cost to you. No arguing, no fine print gymnastics, just ring us. The cover follows the pests named on your certificate, which for a standard treatment means ants, cockroaches, spiders and silverfish. Termite work, rodent baiting programs and bed bugs are quoted and warranted separately because they run on a different treatment cycle. Keep this separate from your builder’s termite management system, which is warranted by the builder and recorded on the durable notice in your meter box. Two different pieces of paper, and it is worth knowing which one you are relying on. Our full wording is in the terms and conditions, and ongoing cover runs through the 365 Pest Protection Plans.