The cost of pest control in Lafayette depends on three main things: the size of your home, how often it is treated, and which pests need to be covered. At Dave’s and Kevin’s Pest Control, we price our residential pest control plans based on the square footage of the home and the treatments it needs. That is why we start with a free inspection instead of quoting one flat rate for every house. Below, we explain what goes into the price so you know what to expect before a technician comes out.
Why Most Lafayette Homes Need Ongoing Treatment
Lafayette has long, hot summers, mild winters, and high humidity for most of the year. These conditions allow cockroaches, ants, spiders, and mosquitoes to stay active for much longer than they would in colder parts of the country. Heavy rain also drives ants and other insects toward higher, drier ground, and that often means the foundation and walls of a house.
For these reasons, most homeowners in Lafayette Parish get better results from a recurring service plan than from a single treatment. A one-time spray can reduce the pests you are seeing today. However, new pests keep arriving from the yard, neighboring properties, and nearby wooded areas, coulees, and drainage ditches. Regular treatments keep a protective barrier in place so those new arrivals are stopped at the outside of the home.
The Main Factors That Affect the Price
The Size of Your Home
Square footage is the starting point for most pest control pricing. A larger home has more rooms to inspect, a longer foundation to treat, and more places for pests to hide. It also takes more product and more time to treat properly.
How Often Your Home Is Treated
We offer two main plan options. Our quarterly plan is our most popular residential service, with a treatment every three months. For homeowners who want more frequent protection, we also offer monthly or bimonthly treatments.
More frequent service costs more over the course of a year, but it is often the better choice for homes with an ongoing problem or a history of heavy infestations.
Which Pests Are Covered
Our standard pest control plan includes protection against spiders, American cockroaches, ants, silverfish, earwigs, house crickets, millipedes, and centipedes, along with spider web sweepdowns. Other pests require different methods, products, or additional visits, so they are added to a plan separately. These include termites, mosquitoes, rats and mice, bed bugs, fleas, ticks, flies, stinging insects, and wildlife. Each one you add affects the total price.
The Current Level of Infestation
A home that needs preventive service is priced differently from a home with an established problem. For example, German cockroaches living inside a kitchen or rats nesting in an attic usually require more work at the start and more follow-up visits than routine prevention does.
Features of Your Property
Some property features add time to each service visit. These include:
- Thick shrubs, mulch beds, or ground cover planted against the foundation
- Wooded lots or homes near coulees, ponds, or the Vermilion River
- Detached garages, sheds, and other outbuildings
- Raised homes with a crawl space underneath
Each of these gives pests more places to live close to the house, so these areas need extra attention during treatment.
What Happens at the First Visit
The first treatment is the most thorough visit of any plan. A homeowner needs to be present so our technician can inspect and treat inside the home and address any problems in the kitchen, bathrooms, garage, and other rooms. After that, the remaining treatments are performed on the outside of the home unless an issue comes up inside. This keeps later visits efficient while still protecting the house.
One-Time Treatment or a Service Plan?
A single treatment may cost less up front. Over a full year in South Louisiana, however, a one-time treatment usually leads to the pests returning once the product wears off from rain and sun. Many homeowners end up paying for several separate treatments when a service plan would have kept the problem under control from the start. A plan also gives you regular inspections, which means a technician can spot a new problem early, before it becomes a larger and more expensive one.
Services That Are Priced Separately
General pest control does not protect a home from termites. In Louisiana, where both native subterranean termites and Formosan termites are present, termite protection is a separate service with its own inspection and pricing. We offer the Sentricon baiting system and liquid soil treatments, and the cost of each depends on the size and construction of the home.
Rodent exclusion is also priced separately. This service involves sealing the openings rats and mice use to get inside, and the price depends on how many openings our technicians find and how difficult they are to reach. The same is true for TAP attic insulation, which is priced based on the size of the attic.
How to Get an Accurate Price for Your Home
The only way to get a reliable number is to have the home inspected. During a free inspection, our technician will look at the size and layout of your house, identify the pests you are dealing with, and note any conditions around the property that are drawing them in. You will then receive a price based on your home rather than a general estimate.
Dave’s and Kevin’s Pest Control has served Lafayette and the surrounding area since 1962, and we are still a local, family-owned company. To find out what pest control will cost for your home, contact us to schedule your free inspection.