SOUTHLAKE RODENTS
How do rats get into a well-kept Southlake house?
Through the landscaping, usually. Southlake has the heaviest ornamental planting on our map, and a dense, irrigated shrub bed against the brick is a covered walkway that lets a rat reach the weep holes without ever being in the open. From there it needs one unpacked hole or one open gap where a stone veneer meets the brick.
The other route is the roof. Large houses on White Chapel and around Carroll tend to have several roof planes meeting at valleys and dormers, and every junction is a place for flashing to lift. Add a live oak that has grown into the eave and a roof rat has both the ladder and the doorway. Properties toward Bob Jones and the Grapevine Lake corridor get more of this pressure because the natural areas next door never run out of rodents.
None of that is fixed by treating the yard. The rodent work is to find the openings in use, close them, trap the animals already in the attic and come back to make sure the house stays shut.
SOUTHLAKE PRICING
The add-on is flat; the plan under it follows the house
Rodent control is $25 a month whatever the size of the house, and it attaches to either Home Defender or Complete Home & Lawn Defense rather than being bought on its own. Where Southlake differs from the rest of Tarrant County is the base plan: a 3,000 to 4,500 square foot house is $38 to $46 for Home Defender, a 4,500 to 6,000 square foot house is $46 to $54, and anything over 6,000 is quoted after we have seen it.
So a typical Southlake total lands between $63 and $79 a month with rodents included. The reason the base plan climbs is honest: a 5,000 square foot house has twice the foundation run, twice the eave line and often three or four times the weep holes of a Saginaw ranch, and every one of them has to be checked. There is no startup fee and nothing to sign, and the figure is fixed before you commit.
Rodent add-on
$25 a month
Same price on any size of house; requires a year-round plan
Home Defender, 3,000–4,500 sq ft
$38–$46 a month
Common in the established Southlake neighborhoods
Home Defender, 4,500–6,000 sq ft
$46–$54 a month
The larger houses off White Chapel and toward Bob Jones
Any house over 6,000 sq ft
Quoted
We walk it first; call or text (817) 984-8611
Every number on this page comes from our published price list. Southlake 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 LIMITS
Where rodent control on a Southlake lot runs out
We do not treat the nature area, the lake corridor or the neighbor's acre. Bob Jones and the land toward Grapevine Lake are a permanent rodent reservoir, and the honest promise is that your house stops admitting them, not that the property line stops them arriving.
We do not prune, re-flash or re-hang anything. On a Southlake house the list of homeowner-side fixes is often longer than the sealing list: a limb into the eave, a lifted valley flashing, a garage door that closes a quarter inch proud at one corner, an outdoor kitchen with an open chase behind the grill. We point at each gap and tell you whether it is ours to seal or yours to have repaired.
And the add-on is not a substitute for a full attic restoration. If rats have been in a Southlake attic for years, the insulation may need to be pulled and replaced, and that is a contractor's job, not a $25 line on a pest plan. We will tell you if we think you are there.
US OR A WILDLIFE COMPANY
The monthly add-on versus a one-off exclusion contractor
A dedicated wildlife or exclusion company will quote a single job, often a large one, to seal an entire house at once, and on a big Southlake home with active roof-line entry that can be the right purchase. They will do more sheet-metal work than we do, and they should. If you have squirrels or raccoons in the attic rather than rats, that is who to call first.
Our add-on is the ongoing version: seal the entry points rodents are using, trap, follow up, and keep checking the seals and the weep holes on every plan visit for as long as you keep the plan. It costs $25 a month instead of a lump sum, and it lives alongside the perimeter treatment that cuts the insects rodents feed on. For a house with mice at the weep holes or rats at a garage corner, that is usually enough; for a house that needs its roof line rebuilt against wildlife, it is not, and we say so on the first visit.
THE INSPECTION
The first visit on a large Southlake property
Beds, veneer and weep holes
We pull back the shrubs where they touch the brick and check the weep holes behind them, plus every transition where stone, brick or stucco meet. Holes in use get copper mesh; the rest get Delta Dust on the regular visits.
Roof planes and trees
Valleys, dormers, chimney flashing and any limb within jumping distance of the eave. A Southlake roof has more of these than a single-story ranch, so this part of the walk takes longer here than anywhere else.
Attic, garage and outdoor kitchens
Inside we read the insulation for runways and set traps and locked stations on them. Outside, the garage-door corners, pool equipment pad and any chase behind a built-in grill get checked, because those are the ground-level routes on newer Southlake builds.
