About Fenceline

A carpenter who kept finding the same gap.

Owner run pest and termite control for Brisbane's northside. Four of us, one ute each, and a rule that nothing gets quoted until somebody has walked the outside of the house.

Since 2011

Wes spent eleven years as a carpenter on renovations across the northside before he ever held a pest licence. He kept opening up the same houses and finding the same thing behind the cabinets: a gap. A weep hole rendered over, a slab edge that had never been sealed, a door frame packed with foam that had gone brittle in the Queensland sun. The pest bloke would arrive, spray the skirting boards, be gone in fifteen minutes and never once walk the outside of the house. In 2011 Wes got his licence, put a torch and a moisture meter in the ute and started Fenceline out of the garage at Albany Creek.

We stayed on the northside because we live on it. Albany Creek sits between the creek flats and the bushland at Bunyaville, and that edge is the reason this pocket gets the ant and termite pressure it does. Coastal brown ants push up through the slab in the dry months, and the wet brings everything else in off the reserve. If you have been through a summer here you already know the pattern.

Wes kneeling at a skirting board in a northside hallway, tracing an ant trail
Wes Corrigan, on the floor at the skirting, which is where most of this work starts.

The job that changed it

Cashmere, 2016.

3 operators 2 years 40 minutes outside

The turning point was a house at Cashmere in 2016. Three operators had treated it for ants over two years and the trail always came back inside a month. We spent forty minutes outside before we touched anything and found the answer under a garden bed that had been built up above the slab edge, holding water against the wall. We dropped the soil back, sealed the join, treated the nest, and that was the end of it. After that we stopped quoting anything over the phone. Every job now starts with a walk of the whole fenceline, inside and out, before a price is written down.

What was actually wrong

  • A garden bed built up above the slab edge, holding water against the wall
  • The join between render and slab never sealed, so the trail had a covered run
  • Two years of internal spraying that never once touched the nest
A finger pressed against a freshly run bead of sealant where a rendered wall meets the concrete slab edge
The fix was a shovel, a tube of sealant and one nest treatment. It has not come back.

How we work

Four rules we keep.

Close the way in, then treat what is already inside, so the job still holds after a wet Queensland summer.

  1. 01 Walk the whole perimeter before quoting Every job starts with a full perimeter walk, inside and out, before a price is written
  2. 02 Fixed price in writing, and no charge for the callback Sealing and proofing are inside the price, not quoted as an extra afterwards
  3. 03 Plain language about what we use and where it goes Twelve month warranty on ants, cockroaches and spiders after a full home treatment
  4. 04 Leave the house tidier than we found it The technician who did your job is the one who comes back for the follow up
A trade workshop shelf with plain applicator bottles, a coiled hose, a torch and folded drop sheets

What is in the ute

A torch and a moisture meter before anything with a trigger on it.

Plain unbranded gear, drop sheets that get used, and a brush for the webbing. The product is the last thing out of the vehicle, not the first.

Licences and cover

The paperwork.

Certificates are available on request, and the licence number goes on every report we issue. We do not use subcontractors, so everyone attending your house is covered by this.

  • Licensed pest management technicians under the Queensland Health pest management scheme
  • Timber pest inspection accreditation, reporting to AS 4349.3 and AS 3660.2
  • Member of the Australian Environmental Pest Managers Association
  • Public and products liability cover of ten million dollars, certificate available on request
  • Working with children checks held by every technician who attends a school or childcare site

Today

Four of us.

Today there are four of us. Wes and Toby run the technical side, Hannah looks after the commercial and strata work, and Marika keeps the diary honest, which is harder than it sounds in a wet February. We have treated a bit over sixteen thousand homes and businesses since 2011. We are not the cheapest quote you will get on the northside and we do not try to be, because the cheap quote is usually the one that skips the outside of the house. If you have found a trail, a mud lead or a gap you cannot explain, we would rather look at it with you than guess.

Who you will actually see at the door

Straight to a person

0491 573 087

Leave a message any time. We return calls from 6:30am the next working day, and a wasp or bee nest near a school, a childcare centre or a play area gets moved to the front of the day.

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