General Pest Control and Quarterly Service in Round Rock
First treatment: $150 to $300. Quarterly: $100 to $180 a visit
General pest control in Round Rock runs $150 to $300 for the first treatment and $100 to $180 a visit after that. The first visit is the long one. Everything after it is upkeep.
Round Rock sees about 100 days a year over 90 degrees and only around 28 nights at or below freezing, so the bug season barely stops. Fire ants push up new mounds after every rain, striped bark scorpions, the most common scorpion in Central Texas, come inside after water in the hot dry stretches, native subterranean termites swarm in the spring, and roof rats move into attics when the cold fronts start.
The first visit
- Inspection. Kitchen, baths, utility room, garage, attic hatch. Outside: slab edge, weep holes, hose bibs, AC line set, dryer vent, door sweeps, the roofline.
- Identify the pest. German roaches and American roaches get treated differently. So do odorous house ants and fire ants. Guessing wastes product and money.
- Inside. Gel bait and dust in cracks, under sinks, behind the fridge and the range, at plumbing penetrations. No broadcast spray across the floor.
- Outside. A band along the foundation and up the wall, weep holes treated, the garage door seal and threshold, eaves swept for webs and wasp starts.
- Notes. You get told what was found, what was used, and what you can fix yourself: a gap under the door, mulch piled against the slab, a leaking hose bib.
Quarterly visits
The outside barrier breaks down in sun and rain. A visit every three months puts it back before the next wave. The applicator treats inside only where something is showing, so most visits are a walk-through and a quick check.
Fire ants are the yard ant across Williamson County. Texas A&M AgriLife's Two-Step Method is the standard approach: broadcast a bait over the whole yard in spring and fall, then treat the mounds by the house, the driveway and the play set directly. A mound treatment kills that colony in a day or two; the bait works slower and reaches the colonies you cannot see.
What is not included
Termites, bed bugs and rodents need their own inspection, their own products and more labor. They are quoted separately and are not part of a standard general plan.
Licensing
Pest control for pay in Texas is licensed by the Texas Department of Agriculture's Structural Pest Control Service. The company holds a TDA business license with a certified applicator responsible for the work, the technician at your house is licensed in the category being treated, such as pest control or termite and wood destroying insect control, and apprentices are registered and work under supervision. Ask for the TDA license number and check it against the TDA's published list of current licenses.
Roaches in daylight mean a big population behind the walls. Call (737) 302-5432 for Round Rock and the rest of Williamson County and say which room you see them in.