Pest Control Allambie Heights
Exipest pest control Allambie Heights has been servicing Allambie Heights and surrounding suburbs for the past 15 years. We are locally owned and operated upper north shore business, offering termite inspections, termite treatments and general pest control treatments. Some of or general pest control treatments offered in the Allambie Heights area, include cockroach treatments, ant treatments and baiting, spider treatments, silverfish treatments, carpet beetle treatments, flea treatments, tick treatments and rat and mice treatments. Other services that we provide are possum trapping, release and proofing and subfloor ventilation.
Exipest Allambie Heights provides great service. We are friendly, punctual and informative. We advise our clients on the best way to reduce the possibility of pest infestation. We promptly attend to service calls. We are fully insured and licenced and have all the relevant training, knowledge and experience to compete even the most difficult pest control job.
exipest | Allambie Heights Pest Control | General pest removal treatments for cockroach, ants, spiders, silverfish and carpet beetle
A general pest control treatment in Allambie Heights covers Cockroaches, ants, spiders, silverfish, and carpet beetle. General pest control treatments are a great preventative measure and over time you have reduced pest problems, due to the regular treatments reducing the available food source. Areas treated during a general pest treatment are interior, roof-void, sub-floor and exterior (property perimeter, gardens and fence lines). Free service periods/warranty apply. We focus on the roof void and sub-floor areas of your home, this is where the major infestations and harbourage areas are. We also provide end of lease treatment to tenants and real estate agents.
We use environmentally friendly methods, chemicals and products on all our pest control jobs.
exipest | Allambie Pest Control | Rodent treatments
The Allambie Heights area has a few environmental factors that are conducive to rats and mice, which leads to the infestation of our homes and business. Some of these factors are commercial business, major shopping centres, bush land, parks and recreational centres. These areas provide excellent a food and water source. Rats and mice live in close proximity to humans and are the perfect scavenger. They move into our homes largely in the roof or subfloor areas. If you are hearing scratching in the walls or ceiling of your property, you probably have a rat problem.
3 simple tips and advice for home owners on rat removal from exipest:
There are several ways to attack a rodent problem. Baiting is not the only way to control rats and mice. You can reduce the likely hood of rodents entering the building by following these 3 tips:
1. Removing foliage from the roof line of the building, by cutting back the trees and foliage from your roofline at least one metre. By doing this, you reduce the ability of rats jumping from the trees on to your roof, where they can gain access in under the tiles at the gutter line.
2. Blocking any holes around the foundation stops easy entry into the wall cavities and subfloor area. Making sure that the subfloor door is closed and that the gaps around the door are less than a thumb thickness. This is a simple method that stops easy access into the subfloor.
3. Putting weather strips at the base of entry doors and removing pet food once your pet has finished their meal.
exipest | Allambie Heights Pest Control | Flea infestation treatments
When you have a pet, you know that as the weather warms up your pet may get fleas. It doesn’t take long for the problem to spread to your yard and to the interior of your house. If you are experiencing flea bites, it’s time to get control of the situation, before it gets out of control. Female fleas lay hundreds of eggs in their life time. Most of these eggs are laid on the host animal, but some fall off into the animals bedding and sleeping areas. As part of a flee removal treatment, we blanket spray all floor coverings with an approved environmentally friendly chemical that contains an insect growth regulator to stop the breeding.
If you are experiencing fleas in the yard, then spraying the yard is also good practice. Due to the types of flea problems and size of premises contact us for a quote.
2 tips from exipest for flee removal and control:
1. Before you have your house treated for fleas give it a thorough vacuum. This helps by removing some of the flea eggs out of the carpet and floor board gaps and reduces the possibility of reinfestation.
2. Washing of all animal bedding is a must. Also wash your pet with an approved flea wash.
exipest | Allambie Heights Pest Control | Tick treatments
Mount Colah is well known for tick problems, due to their close proximity to Ku-ring-gai chase national park. Ticks like damp areas and generally hide on low foliage. Native animals can bring ticks to your property. You can spray low toxic sprays to these areas to reduce the tick numbers in your yard. Please contact us for a comprehensive quote and advice on how to deal with tick problems on your property.
2 tips from exipest to help with tick problems:
1. Remove and reduce low foliage like fish fern and other low ground cover plants around yard, particularly around damp areas.
2. Block holes under your fence lines to stop bandicoots from entering your yard.
exipest | Allambie Heights Pest Control | Termite inspections
Due to being surrounded by the bush, and a leafy location with large parks and lots of large gum trees Allambie Heights and surrounding suburbs are at a significantly higher risk of termite attack. The Australian standards recommend termite inspections to buildings, not exceeding 12 months, some properties regarded as extremely high risk should be inspected more regularly. The best thing any home owner or investor can do is have a yearly termite inspection. This will not stop a building from being attacked by termites, but will let you catch the problem before you have a large amount of structural damage. This will reduce the cost of building repairs.
On completion of your inspection, you will receive a report which will define the areas that are of high risk i.e.: damp areas, low subfloor ventilation, low inaccessible subfloor areas, timber on ground, breach of termite barriers, previous termite damage, along with recommendations for your property.
A termite inspection consists of a non-invasive inspection of the interior of the structure, the roof void, subfloor and grounds surrounding the structure, including landscaping timbers, trees, stumps and posts and takes between 1.5 and 2 hours to complete. You will receive a tailored comprehensive report shortly after inspection.
3 Tips for home owners to help reduce termites from exipest:
1. Don’t store timber, furniture or card board products on the ground under your house.
2. Don’t build up the soil levels against house it breaches the ant capping and damp course and allow termites to enter undetected.
3. Store fire wood away from house and elevated off the ground, so it can be inspected.
exipest | Allambie Heights Pest Control | Termite treatments
If you have found a termite infestation or termite damage in your house, don’t disturb it, don’t spray it, just leave it alone and call an experienced termite treatment company, to get the best advice and treatment methods.
How termites are treated by exipest:
1. The first part of any termite treatment is a thorough inspection, to identify the termite entry points and any other affected areas. There may be more than one entry point and termite species attacking your structure. Termite activity can then be dusted or baited. The dusting or baiting of termites may take a few weeks to months to get control of the infestation.
2. The second stage of a termite treatment is started once the termites have been eradicated from the structure and is the application of a chemical soil barrier. A soil barriers purpose is to reduce the possibility of future termite attack by applying a chemical into the soil around the footings and foundation walls under the structure and the exterior perimeter of the structure. If you have concrete paths abutting the structure they will be drilled and the chemical is pressure injected under the area. The holes are then resealed.
exipest | Allambie Heights Pest Control | Tree termite treatments
Trees get affected by termites and sometimes have colonies in side them or on them. The termites can track their way below the ground through the water table to your house, undetected. You can and should treat trees for termites. Termite infestations in trees left untreated can kill the tree, create dying branches that fall and damage property or injure people or pets. Untreated compromised trees can result in excessive rot and fungal decay. Treating trees for termites does not adversely affect the tree or kill it.
exipest | Allambie Heights Pest Control | Subfloor ventilation
Ineffective subfloor ventilation can create a myriad of issues in houses which can create the ideal environment for termite attack, create mould issues inside the house due to high humidity. Sub floor ventilation failures can be the cause of subfloor timber decay, warping or cupping of floor boards.
Two tips on ducted subfloor ventilation from exipest:
1. By installation of high-flow air vents to the exterior of foundation walls to increase the air flow below the floor.
2. Where there is no other way to create air flow in sections of the sub-floor, the installation of ducted sub-floor fans are an option to redirect moist air to the outside of the structure. This will bring fresh air in to the area.
Good subfloor ventilation reduces your risk of termite attack. Call exipest pest control for a comprehensive evaluation and quote