Pest Control Service

The right plan depends on what you are actually fighting, and the honest answer is not always the biggest program. If you have one clear problem with a start and an end — carpenter ants on a deck ledger, a wolf spider population in a Cedar Cove garage, silverfish in a bathroom — choose a one-time targeted treatment at $250 to $375. If the same pest keeps returning every spring and fall regardless of what you spray, choose a quarterly perimeter program at $250 to $325 per visit; the trade-off is a recurring cost versus a treated barrier that is renewed before each seasonal push instead of after the pests are already inside. Quarterly programs here are cancelable — we do not lock anyone into a term they cannot end. For termites, the choice is between two real methods. If you want a treated soil barrier that kills workers on contact and protects a specific foundation line, choose liquid soil treatment ($1,200 to $2,800): trenching and rodding along the footer, with drilling through slab or patio concrete where the foundation is not accessible. If you want ongoing monitoring around a home with heavy landscaping, a shallow water table, or additions that make trenching impractical, choose a bait station system ($900 to $1,800 for install and the first year of monitoring), which works through colony elimination over weeks. The trade-off is speed versus visibility — liquid gives you an immediate barrier you cannot see working, while bait stations give you documented activity checks but need patience and scheduled re-inspection. Homes with a known active infestation and a closing date usually need liquid; homes doing long-term prevention on a wooded lot often do better with baiting. Rodents split the same way. If you want the population knocked down fast, trapping and monitoring does that in one to three weeks. If you want it to stay down, the exclusion work — sealing crawlspace vents, garage door corners, sill plate gaps and utility penetrations — is the part that matters, and it costs more up front. The trade-off is paying once for sealing versus paying repeatedly for bait every autumn when field mice move in from the tree lines. Is a quarterly program worth it if I only see pests twice a year? Usually yes in Lexington Park, because the two annual invasions — spring ants and fall crickets and stink bugs — are exactly what a maintained perimeter is designed to intercept. Can I skip the inspection and just book a spray? You can book a treatment, but we still inspect first; treating an odorous house ant trail the same way as a carpenter ant colony wastes your money, and a moisture source behind a shower wall will re-seed pests no matter what gets sprayed indoors.