Pest Control Kedron, QLD 4031
Licensed termite and pest management in Kedron — 11.0 km north of the Brisbane CBD, in the City of Brisbane. Thermal imaging and a moisture meter on every termite inspection, a written report usually the same day, and a fixed price confirmed before we start.
Kedron pricing
inc GST · no call-out fee
Standard residential. Larger homes and difficult access quoted on inspection. Full list →
Book in KedronWhy Kedron properties face the pressures they do
The housing stock
Kedron is a mixture of interwar and early post-war housing, and the subdivision record is unusually precise. Residential subdivision accelerated after 1911, the Lutwyche Road tram line reached Kedron Brook in 1913 and was extended to the cemetery in 1925, and that tram enabled the Kedron Park Tramway Estate of 1915 — which was marketed as 120 elevated sites — followed by Glen Kedron Estate in 1917, Kedron View Estate in 1925, Scriven’s Paddock in 1926 and Richmond Estate in 1928. Apartments had reached about a quarter of dwellings by 2006. “Elevated sites” in a 1915 estate is about as close to documentary proof of high-set timber on stumps as you will get.
Housing of this age was framed and stumped long before AS 3660 chemical treated zones existed as a standard, and before the soil treatments of the mid-twentieth century — organochlorines, banned in Australia in the mid-1990s — were withdrawn. Nothing applied to a house of this era is still protecting it. What protects it now is subfloor access, ventilation, visible ant caps and an annual inspection.
Water, ground and moisture
Kedron is centred on Gympie Road and Kedron Brook. The brook rises at the confluence of Kedron Creek and Cedar Creek at Upper Kedron and runs 29 km, falling 220 m and draining a 110 km² catchment through Enoggera, Stafford, Grange, Lutwyche, Wooloowin, Kalinga Park, Toombul and Hendra before entering the Schulz Canal near Nundah. It flooded significantly in 2022, destroying a large section of the bikeway. The brook corridor is a low-lying alluvial floodplain and the properties along it carry the suburb’s highest moisture load.
Vegetation on the doorstep
Kedron Park runs along the brook beside the Kedron Park Hotel, and bunya pines were planted along Gympie Road in the 1860s. The Kedron Brook bikeway corridor carries mature vegetation through the suburb.
What we actually look at in Kedron
Subfloor, stumps, bearers, joists 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 Kedron property:
- The 1915 “elevated sites” stock. High-set timber on stumps, sold on exactly that basis — good access, provided nothing has been built in underneath.
- The Kedron Brook alluvial flats. A 110 km² catchment discharges through the suburb, and the corridor flooded significantly in 2022. Those flats are slow to dry.
- Later infill under the house — a laundry, rumpus or garage slab converts an inspectable subfloor into a concealed one.
- The 1860s bunya pines on Gympie Road and mature corridor vegetation along the bikeway.
Where Kedron sits on termite risk
CSIRO’s termite hazard map places Brisbane and south-east Queensland in Zone C, medium hazard, on a four-band scale (A negligible, B low, C medium, D high); the highest band, Zone D, begins further north around Rockhampton. CSIRO’s own framing is that the risk of termite attack on mainland Australia “generally increases in a northerly direction, with the highest risk in the subtropics and tropics.” In CSIRO’s national termite survey, 44.7% of the Brisbane properties surveyed had termites active outside the home and 23.6% had termites inside the building itself.
CSIRO’s hazard map is regional, not suburb-level, and CSIRO has never rated an individual suburb. So we can tell you truthfully that Kedron sits inside CSIRO’s medium-hazard band for south-east Queensland — and we will not pretend anyone has assessed Kedron itself. What actually varies street by street is the local detail above: construction era, subfloor type, and proximity to water and vegetation.
Source: CSIRO, Managing Termites (CSIRO Infratech, 2024), after Leicester et al. (2003), A risk model for termite attack in Australia. The hazard map is regional, not suburb-level — CSIRO has never classified an individual suburb, and the underlying survey notes that within any hazard zone there may still be hot spots or areas where termites are scarce. Source: Cookson & Trajstman, Termite Survey and Hazard Mapping, CSIRO, 2002 — interview survey conducted 1996–98, n=394 Brisbane dwellings. Australia-wide the same survey found termites somewhere on the property at 35.6% of 5,122 homes. We quote the Brisbane figures because they are the ones that describe this market; we do not use the “one in three Queensland homes” line, because the underlying study is national, counts termites anywhere on the property including trees and fences, and its authors described it as an interim result.
The termites that matter here
Two subterranean species do most of the structural damage in Kedron: 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 many Brisbane suburbs; it needs no ground contact and lives on the moisture in the timber itself. Full species detail and what each one does →
Our services in Kedron
A general pest treatment is $300 including GST for a standard Kedron 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 →
Around Kedron
We work Kedron regularly — around Lutwyche Cemetery, the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services headquarters, the heritage-listed Kedron Lodge from 1859, the Kedron Park Hotel and the Kedron Brook bikeway. Population was 9,907 at the 2021 Census.
Pest control in Kedron — frequently asked
Our Kedron house is on high stumps. Is that better or worse?
Does Kedron Brook flooding matter for termites?
How much does the Kedron Brook corridor actually matter?
Enough to make annual inspection non-negotiable if you are on the flats. Kedron Brook drains a 110 km² catchment through the suburb, falls 220 m over 29 km, and flooded significantly in 2022 — it destroyed a large section of the bikeway. The alluvial flats along it are slow to dry, and sustained soil and timber moisture is what sustains a termite colony once it arrives. Properties up on the Gympie Road ridge carry noticeably less of that pressure than those down toward the brook.
Our Kedron house is on high stumps but has a concrete laundry underneath. Does that matter?
Yes, and it is the classic Kedron scenario given how many of these houses were sold as “elevated sites” in the 1915 tramway estates and then had rooms built in underneath over the following century. A slab poured against original timber stumps creates a concealed junction where termites can enter without crossing any surface an inspector can see. It does not mean the house has a problem; it means the built-in section becomes an inaccessible area on the report, and the rest of the subfloor becomes more important to keep clear.
How quickly can you get to Kedron, and is there a call-out fee?
No call-out fee and no travel surcharge — Kedron is on our standard run. Same day is often possible depending on where the run already is; call and we will tell you honestly what today looks like rather than booking you in and sorting it out afterwards. Most Kedron customers book the termite inspection and the pest treatment together and we do both in the one visit.
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