ALEDO, 76008
Is a perimeter plan worth it on a new Aledo build?
Usually yes, and sooner than owners expect. Aledo is one of the fastest-growing towns in Parker County, and the subdivisions going up around Old Annetta Road, FM 1187 and Bailey Ranch sit on ground that was scraped flat a year or two ago. Fire ants claim disturbed soil before any other ant species gets back to it, which is why a house with no history of bugs can carry a dozen mounds by its second spring.
The Home Defender Plan answers that with four scheduled visits a year: a liquid band around the foundation and three feet up the wall, an eave and door-frame sweep, Delta Dust in every brick weep hole, a granular ring roughly 25 feet out, and broadcast fire ant bait. Out toward the county line, where lots run bigger and the mowing stops at open ground, the same plan does a different job of holding boundary pests back from the wall.
PRICED ON THE HOUSE
What Aledo homeowners actually pay each month
Home Defender runs $30 to $54 a month, and the number follows the square footage of the house rather than the acreage behind it. That trips people up here, because a place on a big Parker County lot can price identically to a quarter-acre home closer to Fort Worth when the floor plans match.
Most of the newer Aledo floor plans land between 3,000 and 4,500 square feet, so $38 to $46 a month is the common answer. Billing is monthly for the four visits, retreatments in between cost nothing, one interior treatment is included if something already got indoors, and there is no startup fee, no cancellation fee and no contract to sign.
Under 1,500 sq ft
$30 a month
Rare in this town, but it is where the plan starts
1,500–3,000 sq ft
$33–$38 a month
Smaller builder plans and older county homes
3,000–4,500 sq ft
$38–$46 a month
Where most of the new construction lands
Over 6,000 sq ft
Quoted
Larger custom houses get their own figure
Every number on this page comes from our published price list. Aledo homes get the same table as everyone else; the instant quote reads your square footage and lot size and hands you your own line.
WHERE IT STOPS
Three Aledo jobs this plan will not do
Mosquitoes are not on the list. The barrier is built for crawlers and clingers, from ants and spiders to crickets, earwigs, millipedes and scorpions, and a flying insect crosses a treated band without ever touching it. Low spots behind the newer sections hold water after a spring storm, and that is a separate 21-day program from April through September.
It does not close your brick, either. Delta Dust goes into the weep holes on every visit and kills what crawls through them, but the openings stay open by design so the wall can drain. Packing them with copper mesh is a separate add-on priced on its own, not something folded quietly into the monthly figure.
And the fire ant work is slow on purpose. We broadcast bait across the yard instead of drenching mounds one at a time, because on graded clay the colonies you have not walked past yet are the ones that refill the yard. Bait needs days to weeks to move through a colony, and fresh mounds after rain are normal rather than a failure.
RING OR WHOLE YARD
Home Defender or the Complete upgrade on an Aledo lot
The difference is how far out we treat. Home Defender covers the house, the eaves and about 25 feet of turf and beds around it for $30 to $54 a month. Complete Home & Lawn Defense treats the entire yard instead of that ring, and runs $40 to $73.50 a month across the same square-footage bands.
Inside an Aledo subdivision, where lots back onto other lots, the ring is usually enough and the upgrade is money you do not need to spend. It changes at the edge of town: when a mowed lawn runs into open country, chiggers, ticks and chinch bugs live well past 25 feet, and the whole-yard version is what reaches them.
DAY ONE IN ALEDO
What gets done before the truck leaves
Walk the ground first
The technician reads the lot before anything comes off the truck: how recent the grading is, where the turf is still young, whether the yard runs into open country. On a newly built Aledo house that walk ends with mounds counted.
Foundation, eaves and weep holes
A liquid band goes around the whole slab and about three feet up the wall, then a web pole clears the eaves, soffits and door frames so wasps and spiders have nothing left to rebuild on. Every weep hole along the bottom course of brick takes Delta Dust.
The granular ring and the bait
A granular barrier is broadcast out to roughly 25 feet, into the turf and landscape beds where crawling insects actually breed, and fire ant bait goes across the yard on the same pass. Gate access is all we need, so you do not have to be home, and a text goes out when the technician is on the way.
