Pest control in Albion Park
Across Albion Park and the Rail, newer estates and older homes alike deal with spiders, ants and rodents. We've got a treatment to match your property.
Albion Park pest control across the Rail, the flat and Tullimbar
With paddocks and new development side by side, Albion Park properties often see rodents and spiders moving in.
The Rail is the old end, down by the highway, with brick and fibro that has had rats in the roof at some point in its life. Up on the flat and out at Tullimbar the houses are new, the paddocks they replaced are not far away, and rodents that lost their ground move into whatever has just been finished. New slabs also mean new termite barriers, which only work if someone checks them.
Also servicing nearby Shellharbour, Dapto, Kiama and the surrounding Illawarra.
Pest control in Albion Park, the Rail and Tullimbar
Do you cover Albion Park Rail and Tullimbar as well?
Both, and they aren't the same job. Albion Park sits up on the flat with the newer estates, the Rail is down by the highway and the rail corridor, and Tullimbar is newer again. What turns up in each is different enough to be worth saying.
- The Rail has the older housing stock of the three — brick and fibro, timber subfloors, roof voids that have been open somewhere for thirty years. Cockroaches and rats in the ceiling are the usual call there.
- Up in Albion Park proper and out at Tullimbar it's newer slabs, fresh landscaping and turf, and the first couple of summers after a build bring ants and spiders more than anything else.
- The rail and highway corridor runs a continuous strip of cover and rubbish along the back of a lot of properties, and rodents use it like a road.
Why are rats such a problem around Albion Park?
Because the paddocks are being built on. Rodents living in open ground don't disappear when an estate goes in over the top — they move into the nearest thing with a roof on it, and for a couple of years that's whatever has just been finished.
- New builds are not automatically sealed. Weep holes, unscreened vents, the gap where the gas or water line goes through, and roof-tile ends are all open on plenty of houses that are two years old.
- It runs on a season. They start looking for a roof as the nights cool off through autumn, which is why a house that was fine all summer suddenly has something running above the bedroom in April.
- Baiting on its own turns into a subscription. Closing the ways in is what makes it stop, and the full walk-around is in rodent-proofing an older Illawarra home — the list applies to a new house just as well. The treatment side is rodent control.
Does a new home at Albion Park still need termite inspections?
Yes. A new build has a termite management system under and around the slab, but that system doesn't kill anything — it forces termites to come up somewhere you can see them. It only works if someone looks, and if the barrier hasn't been bridged.
- Six ordinary Saturday jobs undo it: a garden bed built up over the slab edge, render carried down past it, paving laid too high, a deck built tight to the wall, a later penetration for a pipe or air-conditioner, and soil left permanently wet against the brickwork.
- Most builder warranties on the barrier are conditional on an annual inspection being done and recorded. Miss a couple and the warranty is usually the thing you lose first.
- There's a durable notice in your meter box with the product, the date and the next inspection due — it's worth finding before you ring anyone. The whole story is in how people break a new home's termite barrier, and the inspection itself is here.
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