General Pest
Cockroaches, ants, spiders and silverfish, inside, subfloor and out, from $180 + GST.
Learn moreWilloughby City · 2067
Pest control in Chatswood
Chatswood is really two suburbs at once. A dense commercial and retail centre with towers and food halls, ringed by quiet streets of freestanding homes. The pest problems in each are nothing alike.
- 5.0 from 17 Google reviews
- In the trade since 2006
- NSW licence 5073369
- Fully insured
Local conditions
Why Chatswood gets the pests it gets
Chatswood sits in the Willoughby City, the commercial heart of the lower North Shore, built around the station and the two shopping centres. Four things about this particular suburb decide what we get called out for.
One of Sydney's densest food precincts
A concentration of restaurants, food courts and grocers this size supports a permanent cockroach and rodent population. For nearby buildings, the problem is not whether pressure exists but whether your building is the easiest way in.
High rise, shared services
Towers share rubbish rooms, loading docks, lift shafts and riser cupboards. Rodents and German cockroach travel those routes between floors, which is why treating one tenancy rarely holds.
Commercial kitchens and food safety
Anywhere food is prepared, a pest record is not optional. Scheduled treatment with documentation is what keeps an audit straightforward instead of expensive.
The quiet streets behind it
A few hundred metres out, Chatswood is established homes with big gardens and older timber, carrying the same termite risk as anywhere else on the North Shore.
Most asked for here
The jobs we do most in Chatswood
Rodent Control
Baiting, proofing the way back in, and a follow up to confirm it worked.
Learn moreTermite Inspection
A full inspection to the Australian Standard with a written report you keep, from $280 + GST.
Learn moreWhat it costs
Prices, up front.
- General pest treatment, from $180 + GST. Interior, subfloor and exterior. Cockroaches, ants, spiders and silverfish. Six month guarantee, German cockroaches excepted.
- Termite inspection, from $280 + GST. A full inspection to Australian Standard AS 4349.3, with a written report that is yours to keep.
- Termite treatments, by quote. Barriers and colony elimination. The price depends on the size of the building and what is found, so it is quoted after the inspection, never before.
- Strata and commercial, by quote. Scheduled programs with a written report after every visit.
Every quote is free and there is no callout fee. Full pricing.
What we use
The systems we are accredited in.
- Termidor. A liquid termite barrier that termites carry back through the colony rather than simply avoiding.
- Exterra. A termite baiting and monitoring system, used where a chemical barrier is not practical.
- Termseal. Physical barrier systems, mostly at construction and renovation stage.
- Greenzone and Pest Cert. Accredited applicator programs for general pest work.
Member of AEPMA, the Australian Environmental Pest Managers Association. The products are registered chemicals applied by a licensed technician: water based, low odour, with no fumes once applied.
Called out for
What Chatswood calls us about.
- Scheduled commercial programs for food premises and offices
- German cockroach in kitchens and shared services
- Rodent proofing in towers, loading docks and bin rooms
- Termite inspections on the surrounding homes
The termites here
Three species, one of them serious.
Sydney has three subterranean termites worth naming. Coptotermes acinaciformis is the destructive one and the reason inspections matter: it nests out of sight and works through structural timber from the inside. Schedorhinotermes is the second most common in damage claims. Nasutitermes mostly takes fences, stumps and decking rather than the house itself.
Telling them apart changes the treatment, which is why an inspection identifies the species rather than just confirming activity.
Around Chatswood
Where we work here.
Right across Chatswood 2067, including the streets and blocks around Westfield Chatswood, Chatswood Chase, Victoria Avenue, the Chatswood Interchange.
Also Artarmon, Willoughby, North Willoughby, Chatswood West, Lane Cove North, and the rest of the Willoughby City.
Who turns up
Mark, and only Mark.
Mark Chan has been in the trade since 2006 and does every job himself. No subcontractors, no rotating technicians, and the person who quotes your job is the person who does it.
Based at Unit 5, 7 Eden Park Drive, Macquarie Park. Open seven days, 7am to 6pm.
NSW Pest Licence 5073369 · ABN 33 636 949 570 · 5.0 from 17 Google reviews
Asked in Chatswood
Questions we get from this area
Do you do commercial work in Chatswood?
Yes. Offices, retail, food premises and strata buildings, on a scheduled program with a written report after every visit so there is a record to show an auditor.
Can you treat outside trading hours?
Yes. Most commercial work here is done before opening or after close so it does not interrupt trade. Tell us your hours and we will work around them.
We keep getting cockroaches back. Why?
In a building with shared plumbing and rubbish handling, treating one tenancy leaves the population next door untouched and it simply walks back. The fix is treating the building and closing the routes between spaces, not spraying harder.
What does it cost?
General pest treatments start from $180 + GST and termite inspections from $280 + GST. Commercial and strata programs are quoted after a quick look, because they depend on the site. Every quote is free.
Need someone in Chatswood?
Free quote, no callout fee. Mark will tell you what it needs before you spend anything.