Broadmeadows is a working suburb of brick veneer homes from the sixties and seventies, newer townhouses squeezed onto the old blocks, a big shopping centre, and industrial estates running out toward the airport and the Hume Freeway. Each of those brings its own pest. The older houses with timber subfloors and original kitchens are cockroach and rodent territory, especially where a rental has changed hands a few times and the gaps behind the stove and under the sink have never been sealed. The townhouse developments in Dallas and Coolaroo bring Argentine ants trailing between shared walls. The factories and transport yards in Campbellfield, Somerton and Tullamarine deal with rats around loading docks, cockroaches in lunchrooms and spiders across every rack and roller door.
Winter is rodent season. Rats come off the Merri Creek, the Moonee Ponds Creek corridor and the rail reserve looking for warm roof voids, and the call volume from Jacana and Westmeadows jumps in May. Summer is cockroaches and ants, with the German cockroach jobs peaking in February when the heat gets the breeding going. Our crew works the Hume corridor every day, so we have a fair idea of what you are dealing with before we arrive.