Most people don’t think about pest control until there’s a problem. A cockroach runs across the bathroom floor. Rat droppings appear in the garage. Tiny holes show up in timber window frames. By then, the infestation has usually been building for weeks or months.
Coastal properties face faster pest escalation than homes further inland. Warmer overnight temperatures near the beach mean pests stay active longer through the year. What starts as a few ants trailing across a kitchen bench in Clontarf can become a full nest in wall cavities within a fortnight.
Supermarket sprays buy you a few days at best. Surface sprays kill the pests you can see but don’t reach nests, eggs, or colonies hidden behind walls. Cockroaches in particular have developed resistance to common retail pesticides. We see this constantly in older buildings along Raglan Street and around the Ivanhoe Park area where the same tenants have been spraying for years with diminishing results.
