Pest Control Prices
We often receive enquiries just asking ‘how much does pest control cost’. Well, there are several potential answers to this question, and we will try to explain a little more on this page.
When we receive enquiries like this, we always need to find out more before we can give an answer. We need to know:
- What evidence has the enquirer got to arrive at their decision on what pest might be present
- How long has the pest activity been going on
- How widespread is the activity
- Whether it is a commercial or domestic premises
- Whether a homeowner or tenant
- What type of property it is
- The premises location
- Any local risk factors we need to be aware of in relation to the property or its occupants
- What is the impact of the pest activity on people and / or the property
- What are the enquirers expectations of our service
iX5 Pest Control
- 7 Days A Week Service
- Weekend & Evening Appointments
- Domestic & Commercial Pest Control
- Contactless Payment Methods
- Comprehensive Initial Survey
Additional Services
From this information, we now have a much better idea of what might be required to resolve the activity, and prevent a recurrence. We also have a good idea of whether a potential customers expectations are realistic, and in line with something we can offer.
Once we have sufficient information, we can then discuss what we might be able to do to assist a potential customer; whether this is to carry out a survey or advisory visit in the first instance, or to schedule a particular pest control treatment. Usually during this discussion, we provide lots of useful information to the customer.
What to Consider When Considering a Pest Control Service
It is important to remember that every business will have its own unique business model, service levels, and, particularly importantly, its own levels of resources and overheads. For example, a sole trader operating from their home will not have the same overheads as a Limited Company operating from a commercial premises. Additional aspects such as membership of professional bodies, higher levels of public liability insurance, employees, vehicles, or out of hours services and backup, along with many other factors all affect both the service that can be provided to a customer, and also the costs required to deliver the service.
There are benefits to using both one-person sole trader businesses and larger, more formal, operations with more resources. See our article The Ultimate Pest Control Service Vetting Checklist which covers this in more detail.
Whilst every property and every pest situation is unique, we have refined our knowledge and experience to put in place a structure comprising our most common services combined with set pricing for the most common situations we encounter (subject to survey to confirm things are as described, as there have been occasions where we have arrived at new job to find out conditions are much worse than we were advised on the telephone!).
Our charges take account of our business model, our overheads, our staffing and resource structure, and everything else we need to service the business of providing you with the high levels of customer service we deliver.
Why Use iX5 Pest Control
At iX5 Pest Control we never aim to just be the cheapest, as this would not provide a sustainable business model and would only create a race to the bottom, with all the corner-cutting and risk-taking that would go hand in hand with this strategy. Equally, we are unlikely to be the most expensive. We simply position ourselves to ensure we can deliver the very high levels of customer service we know our customers want and benefit from, rather than competing on price alone.
Pricing in pest control is sometimes considered a sensitive subject, mainly due to the interplay of affordability versus tackling a public health or nuisance pest problem. We also fully understand that customers have budgets and expectations at the same time as wanting to get any pest activity resolved swiftly. At iX5 Pest Control we are confident in our service offering and our pricing structure, and we always ensure our customers are satisfied with what we do for them. Our growing customer base and increasing number of Google reviews are testament to this and this is why we are Trusted With Results.
