Pest Control Paddington
National Pest Solutions covers termite and timber pest inspections, rodent proofing and general pest work across Paddington and Rosalie, on some of the oldest and steepest housing stock in Brisbane.
YOUR LOCAL PADDINGTON PEST CONTROL TEAM
Houses you are not allowed to replace
Paddington sits 4.6 kilometres west-north-west of the CBD in Paddington Ward, a dense 2.5 square kilometres holding 9,063 people, bordered by Bardon, Red Hill, Petrie Terrace, Auchenflower and Milton. It includes Rosalie, which was a separate suburb until 1975, and it lies in a valley in the foothills of Mount Coot-tha, with the retail strung along the ridgetops of Given and Latrobe Terraces and the housing running down the gullies either side.
The housing is 66.2% separate houses (2,310), with 758 flats and 400 townhouses. What makes those houses different from the rest of our service area is not just their age. It is that under Brisbane’s traditional building character overlay, homes substantially constructed in 1946 or earlier are protected from demolition, and buildings from before 1911 can generally only be removed if they are structurally unsound.
In other words, in Paddington the timber stays. You cannot start again, so the only real option is to look after what is there. That is a pest management job as much as a building one, and it is the whole premise of this page.
WHAT WE TREAT IN PADDINGTON
Timber pest work, rodent proofing and general pest control
The full detail of each service lives on our site wide service pages, linked under each card.
Termite and timber pest inspections in Paddington
A hundred and twenty year old timber home on a steep block has more inspectable surface than almost anything else we look at: tall stumps at the low side, a deep undercroft, verandah posts, stair stringers, retaining walls, fence posts, and often a later extension or deck built off the back into the slope.
Termite management in and around existing buildings is a defined discipline, with the Australian Standard covering inspection and detection, identification, conditions conducive to timber pests, a termite management plan and management actions. That structure matters on a character home, because the answer is rarely a single treatment. It is a plan you keep running.
Local fact: When buying, a prior to purchase timber pest inspection carried out by a registered inspector gives you the best possible basis for the decision or for negotiating the price ([AEPMA, timber pest inspections](http://www.aepma.com.au/Consumer-Resource-Centre/Timber-Pest-Inspections)). In Paddington that report is worth more than usual, because you cannot resolve a bad outcome by knocking the house down.
General pest control, ants, cockroaches and spiders in Paddington
Warm, humid, leafy and old. Ants through kitchens and paving, cockroaches indoors and in subfloors, spiders in eaves, undercrofts and garden structures, and the occasional possum question, which is an exclusion and repair job rather than a pest treatment, since possums are protected.
Commercial and food safe pest control in Paddington
Given Terrace, Latrobe Terrace and Rosalie village carry one of Brisbane’s better known cafe, restaurant and boutique strips, much of it operating out of old buildings with shared walls, timber structure and limited back of house space. That combination needs a documented, ongoing program rather than an occasional spray. We are HACCP certified through Compass Assurance.
CHARACTER HOUSING, STEEP BLOCKS
Built for protected timber homes on hillsides
Honest caveat: On a character home we will often recommend a management plan and annual inspections rather than a single big treatment, because that is what actually protects protected timber. If someone quotes you one job that solves it permanently on a 1900s Queenslander, be sceptical.
THE PRACTICAL SIDE
Working around Paddington
Local fact: Large semi-rural allotments were first sold here in 1859, giving rise to gentlemen’s estates including Fernberg, built in 1865 and now Government House. Closer settlement came in the 1870s, and an electric tram ran from the city through Petrie Terrace along Caxton Street, Given Terrace and Latrobe Terrace from 1898, extended the following year. The tram is why the shops sit on the ridgelines and the houses run down the gullies, and why so much of the housing dates from the same twenty year burst.
NEARBY SUBURBS WE COVER
Pest control around Paddington
Paddington sits in our inner western Brisbane service area, and we cover the surrounding suburbs on the same run: Bardon, Red Hill, Milton, Auchenflower, Petrie Terrace, Toowong and Ashgrove. They share the same character housing stock and the same hilly, gully-cut terrain, so the same inspection approach carries straight across.
PADDINGTON PEST CONTROL FAQS
Questions from Paddington homeowners
Our House Is From About 1900. Is It Too Late To Protect It?
Not at all. Plenty of Paddington homes have stood for well over a century with the timber intact, and that is not luck, it is management. Regular inspection, moisture control under the house, keeping timber and soil apart, and acting quickly on any activity found is what gets a house to its second century.
What Does The Character Overlay Have To Do With Pest Control?
We Are Buying In Paddington. Is A Timber Pest Inspection Worth It?
There Is Something In The Roof At Night. Rat Or Possum?
Are The Products Safe Around Kids And Pets?
LET'S SORT YOUR PEST PROBLEM
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Whether you want a proper look under a character home, you are buying and need to know what you are taking on, or something has moved into the roof, we will tell you what is going on and what it takes to fix it. No scare tactics and no pressure.
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