General Pest
Cockroaches, ants, spiders and silverfish, inside, subfloor and out, from $180 + GST.
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Pest control in Eastwood
Eastwood is a big food suburb with a lot of older housing behind it. Two busy retail strips either side of the station, and quiet streets of established homes running back from them.
- 5.0 from 17 Google reviews
- In the trade since 2006
- NSW licence 5073369
- Fully insured
Local conditions
Why Eastwood gets the pests it gets
Eastwood sits in the City of Ryde, around the railway line, with a shopping strip either side of it. Four things about this particular suburb decide what we get called out for.
Two dense food strips
Rowe Street and the shops either side of the line hold a concentration of grocers, restaurants and bakeries. That supports a steady cockroach and rodent population, and the flats above the shops are the first to feel it.
Shops with residential above
Where a kitchen sits directly under a home, shared walls, ducting and waste lines give German cockroach a path upstairs. Treating the flat alone never holds while the shop below is untouched.
Older housing stock
The residential streets are largely post-war and earlier, much of it with original timber, enclosed subfloors and additions added over decades. Standard termite risk, and none of it visible from outside.
Established gardens
Mature trees, stumps and sleeper retaining walls hold moisture and timber against soil, which is where a colony builds long before it reaches a house.
Most asked for here
The jobs we do most in Eastwood
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 Eastwood calls us about.
- Cockroach programs for food premises and the flats above them
- Rodent proofing along the retail strips
- Termite inspections on post-war homes
- General pest for houses and gardens
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 Eastwood
Where we work here.
Right across Eastwood 2122, including the streets and blocks around Rowe Street, Eastwood Plaza, Eastwood Park, the railway line.
Also Marsfield, Denistone East, Epping, West Ryde, Ryde, and the rest of the City of Ryde.
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 Eastwood
Questions we get from this area
Do you work with restaurants and food shops in Eastwood?
Yes. Scheduled programs with a written report after every visit, which is the record an auditor asks for. Work is done outside trading hours so it does not interrupt service.
I live above a shop and keep getting cockroaches. What can be done?
The population is almost always downstairs. Treating your flat on its own leaves the source running. The fix is treating both and closing the routes between them, which usually means talking to the shop or the building manager.
How much is a termite inspection?
From $280 + GST, to the Australian Standard, with a written report you keep. General pest treatments start from $180 + GST.
Do you cover the rest of the City of Ryde?
Yes. Ryde, West Ryde, North Ryde, Macquarie Park, Marsfield, Denistone, Meadowbank, Putney, Gladesville and Tennyson Point.
Need someone in Eastwood?
Free quote, no callout fee. Mark will tell you what it needs before you spend anything.