NEW GROUND, 76226 & 76247
Is it too early to put a brand-new house on a plan?
No, and new is exactly when the pressure peaks. Northlake is the fastest-building town on our map: Pecan Square, the Harvest side and the streets filling in along TX-114 and I-35W all sit on ground that was scraped and regraded recently. Grading wipes out the ant species that were holding that soil, and fire ants recolonise the vacuum before anything else gets back to it.
That is why a three-year-old Northlake yard can carry more mounds than a house four times its age closer to town. Home Defender covers it with four visits a year: a liquid band on the foundation and three feet up the wall, an eave and door-frame sweep, Delta Dust in every weep hole, granular broadcast about 25 feet into the turf and beds, and fire ant bait across the yard. The bait is part of the plan, not a line added later.
BUILDER PLANS, REAL PRICES
The monthly cost for a Northlake floor plan
Home Defender is $30 to $54 a month and the price follows the square footage of the house. Builders print that number on the plan sheet, so most Northlake owners can find their band before they ever call: a 2,600 square foot plan sits in the $33 to $38 range, and a 3,900 square foot one lands between $38 and $46.
Monthly billing covers the four visits and none of it is locked in. No startup fee, no cancellation fee, no contract. You hear the figure before committing, retreatments between the scheduled visits are included rather than quoted, and one interior treatment is there if something already found a way in.
1,500-3,000 sq ft
$33-$38 a month
The smaller builder plans around town
3,000-4,500 sq ft
$38-$46 a month
Where most new construction here lands
4,500-6,000 sq ft
$46-$54 a month
The bigger plans on the wider lots
Complete Home & Lawn Defense
$40-$73.50 a month
Same bands, whole yard instead of the ring
Every number on this page comes from our published price list. Northlake homes get the same table as everyone else; the instant quote reads your square footage and lot size and hands you your own line.
THE UNSOLD PART
Where a new owner here should expect less
Fire ant bait is not a same-day result, and you should hear that now rather than in week two. Bait has to be carried underground and fed to the queen, so the collapse takes days to weeks and a mound can look busy right up until it does not. Drenching mounds one at a time looks faster on the afternoon you do it and leaves every colony you never walked past completely intact.
The plan is also not a mosquito program. Northlake has ponds and detention basins sitting between the newer neighbourhoods, the pressure off them is real, and a foundation band only works on insects that walk through it. Mosquito, Flea & Tick is the separate answer, running every 21 days from April through September and priced on the lot.
And it does nothing for a lawn that is simply thirsty. Builder-laid St. Augustine is young and shallow-rooted through its first couple of seasons, which is precisely why chinch bugs like it, but water the yard properly for a week before you assume insects. If the strips beside the driveway and sidewalk stay brown after that, treating is worth the money.
RING OR THE FULL YARD
Which plan a lot on these streets actually needs
It comes down to what is behind your fence. The Home Defender ring runs about 25 feet out from the house for $30 to $54 a month, and on a finished Northlake street backing another finished street, that ring already covers every square foot anyone walks on.
A lot still backing a field or an active build site is a different problem. Open ground behind you sends chiggers, ticks and rodent pressure at the property from the far side, and Complete Home & Lawn Defense treats the whole yard rather than the ring for $40 to $73.50 a month on the same bands. Once the ground behind you is built out, dropping back to the ring is a reasonable call, and nothing contractual stops you.
DAY ONE ON A NEW BUILD
What we read off the property before treating it
How old the build is
The age of the house tells the technician most of what the first visit has to be. Under about five years and the answer starts with fire ants and young turf. Older than that and the pattern shifts toward the ordinary perimeter pests. Northlake skews heavily toward the first category.
What is on the far side of the fence
A finished street behind you and a field behind you are two different jobs. Open ground means the boundary gets treated deliberately instead of as an afterthought, and it is the single best predictor of whether the 25-foot ring is going to be enough for you.
New brick, same openings
New construction comes with the same open weep holes along the bottom course as a house from the seventies, and on a street still under construction there is plenty out there hunting shelter. Every one takes Delta Dust on the first visit and on each one after. Copper mesh sealing is available as an add-on if you want them shut.
