Pest Control Gold Coast, QLD

Why Gold Coast properties face the pressures they do

The housing stock

The city’s housing runs from 1920s timber and fibro beach cottages on the southern beaches, through the 1970s–90s brick estates of Elanora, Robina and Helensvale, to the high-rise of Southport and Coolangatta and the new estates of Coomera. At the 2021 Census, 56.8% of occupied dwellings were separate houses, 20.6% townhouses or semis and 21.7% apartments.

Water, ground and moisture

Council runs flood studies for the Coolangatta, Coomera River, Loders, Logan-Albert, Nerang River, and Tallebudgera and Currumbin catchments. Rivers, creeks, canal estates and lakes run through most suburbs, and sandy coastal ground dominates the beachside strip.

Vegetation on the doorstep

National parks, conservation parks and bushland reserves (Burleigh Head, Nerang, Coombabah Lake, Currumbin Hill) sit right against residential streets, and the hinterland suburbs back onto forest.

What we actually look at on the Gold Coast

Slab edges, subfloors, stumps, weep holes and ant caps — plus the interior room by room, the roof void where there is safe access, and the fences, retaining walls, stumps, decks and trees inside the property boundary. Termites arrive from the yard, not the front door.

The four things that most often matter on a Gold Coast property:

• Slab edges and weep holes on the brick estates built since the 1970s.
• Original timber in older beach houses and hinterland homes.
• Canal, lake and creek frontages with damp ground.
• Bushland boundaries in the national and conservation parks.

Where the Gold Coast sits on termite risk

CSIRO’s termite hazard map (Managing Termites, CSIRO) places south-east Queensland, including the Gold Coast, in Zone C, medium hazard, on a four-band scale (A negligible, B low, C medium, D high). CSIRO’s framing is that risk on the mainland “generally increases in a northerly direction, with the highest risk in the subtropics and tropics.” The map is regional, not suburb-level, so what actually changes street by street is the construction, the moisture and the vegetation described above.

Source: CSIRO, Managing Termites (CSIRO Infratech), Figure 3, after Leicester et al. (2003), A risk model for termite attack in Australia. The hazard map is regional, not suburb-level.

The termites that matter here

Two subterranean species do most of the structural damage on the Gold Coast: Coptotermes acinaciformis, which Queensland Government describes as the most economically important and widespread subterranean termite, and Schedorhinotermes species. Both occur throughout Queensland and both attack all timber, especially pine. The West Indian drywood termite (Cryptotermes brevis) is also established in parts of south-east Queensland; it needs no ground contact and lives on the moisture in the timber itself. Full species detail and what each one does →

Our services on the Gold Coast

A general pest treatment is $300 including GST for a standard Gold Coast home — inside, outside and the accessible roof void. A termite inspection with a written AS 3660.2 report is $350, and a Termidor HE treated zone is measured and quoted at $78 per lineal metre. German cockroach is excluded from general treatments and quoted separately at $180 per affected room. Full price list and exclusions →

Every product we apply is APVMA-registered for the use we put it to and applied at label rate, and we will tell you what went where. We do not describe treatments as chemical free, non-toxic or one hundred per cent safe. Every product we use, by name →

Across the Gold Coast

We cover the whole City of Gold Coast from our southern base, with regular runs from Coolangatta to Coomera. Pick your suburb below for local detail.

Pest control on the Gold Coast — frequently asked