WATAUGA, OLDER BRICK
What lets mice into a 1970s Watauga house?
Age, mostly. Watauga was largely built out in the 1970s and 80s, and brick from that era has had forty years of settling: mortar joints that have opened a hair, thresholds worn down by foot traffic, and weep holes that were never meant to keep anything out. A mouse needs about a quarter inch, and an established Watauga home usually offers several.
The mature shade trees that make the streets between Haltom City and Keller pleasant give roof rats a second way in. A pecan limb resting on the shingles puts a rat at the soffit vent, and from there the attic is one torn screen away. So on a Watauga inspection we look down at the bottom course and up at the roof edge in the same walk.
The job itself runs in a fixed order. We find the openings with sign on them, close those, trap the animals already inside, and return to check that nothing chewed its way back through.
THE WATAUGA NUMBER
$25 a month more than whichever plan you already carry
Rodent work is priced as a flat $25 monthly add-on to Home Defender or Complete Home & Lawn Defense, and we do not sell it without one of those two. Most established Watauga houses fall in the 1,500 to 3,000 square foot band, where Home Defender costs $33 to $38, so the combined figure is $58 to $63 a month.
The smaller ranches under 1,500 square feet start at $30 for the base plan, which makes rodents plus perimeter $55. House size sets the base price; the rodent line stays $25 whether we seal two gaps or twelve. You can get the plan figure yourself at /instant-quote, and there is no startup charge, no contract and nothing to pay if you stop.
Rodent add-on
$25 a month
Rides on a year-round plan; no standalone version
Home Defender, up to 1,500 sq ft
$30 a month
The smaller original ranches
Home Defender, 1,500–3,000 sq ft
$33–$38 a month
Most of the 1970s and 80s stock in Watauga
Complete Home & Lawn Defense, 1,500–3,000 sq ft
$40–$51.50 a month
Same add-on, whole yard treated as well
Every number on this page comes from our published price list. Watauga 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
What the add-on will not take care of in Watauga
It will not out-seal a food supply. Forty-year-old shade trees drop pecans and acorns every fall, and a yard with nuts on the ground, a full bird feeder or a bag of dog food in an unclosed garage keeps drawing rats to the property line no matter how tight the house is.
It will not replace worn hardware. A Watauga back door with a threshold ground down by four decades of use, or a garage door that shows a wedge of daylight at each corner, needs a new sweep or seal, and that purchase is yours. We will show you the gap and stand there while you look at it, but we do not hang doors.
And it is not something we can spray for. A rodent walks across a treated foundation as if nothing were there. Anyone who quotes a yard treatment for mice is selling insect control under a different name.
SNAP TRAPS OR THE PROGRAM
When a box of traps is enough, and when it is not
One mouse, one obvious gap and a tight house: buy traps and a tube of sealant, and we will tell you so if you call. That situation is rarer on Watauga's older brick than people hope, because the house that let one mouse in usually has three more openings that have not been used yet.
The program pays for itself on the inspection rather than the traps. Homeowners set traps where they saw the droppings, but the animal is entering thirty feet away at a weep hole behind an overgrown shrub, and the trapline just keeps catching new arrivals. Closing the actual door ends the cycle; then a few traps clear out what is left.
FIRST WALK-THROUGH
What we inspect on an established Watauga home
The bottom course, hole by hole
On brick this age every weep hole gets a look for grease rub, droppings and gnaw marks, and the mortar joints get probed where they have cracked. Weep holes with sign on them are packed with copper mesh during the exclusion work, and the rest keep getting Delta Dust on the regular plan visits.
Trees, fascia and soffit vents
Mature canopy means we check where limbs touch the roof and whether the soffit screens are intact. Those are the roof-rat routes on a shaded Watauga street, and each one gets written down for you.
Thresholds, garage corners and the attic
Worn door sweeps and garage-door corners are the ground routes on a 1980s house. Inside, we read the attic for runways so traps and locked stations go where the animals actually move, and we set a follow-up before we leave.
