RICHLAND HILLS, RIGHT NOW
What Is Biting in Richland Hills This Month
Richland Hills is small and mostly built out, with housing that dates to the post-war decades. Settled soil means fewer fire ants than the new subdivisions, but the brick, the trees and the storm drains give rodents, roaches and mosquitoes plenty to work with.
Settled Brick, Open Gaps
Sixty-year-old brick has gaps at the weep holes, thresholds and utility penetrations. Rodents and scorpions find them first. We close what we can and dust the rest on every visit.
Trees, Drains and Shade
Big canopy and older drainage mean damp, shaded ground that mosquitoes rest in by day. The 21-day program treats that vegetation, not just the open yard.
EVERY PROGRAM WE RUN HERE
Pest Services in Richland Hills
Richland Hills sits under big post-war canopy, and shaded, damp ground beside the storm drains is where the mosquitoes hide until dusk. From April through September we treat that cover every 21 days, and on the small lots common here the visit is $49.95.
On a Richland Hills home the Home Defender plan means quarterly service, four visits across the year, working the walls and eaves plus a 25-foot ring of ground outward from the foundation. Delta Dust goes into the weep holes on every one of those visits, fire ant bait is built in, and the cost is $30 to $54 a month set by the home's square footage.
Complete Home & Lawn Defense is the same perimeter program with the entire lawn treated on top, $40 to $73.50 a month. No contract; cancel any month you want.
Chiggers in Richland Hills concentrate on the lots that touch a creek, an easement or a patch of unmowed ground off Loop 820. On Complete Home & Lawn Defense the whole yard is treated, and on Home Defender the 25 feet nearest the house is.
The soil in Richland Hills has been settled for sixty years, so fire ants are a nuisance here rather than the plague they are on new construction. Both year-round plans carry broadcast bait for them anyway, applied across the yard so the colonies collapse over the following weeks.
Mature Bermuda and St. Augustine lawns here host grubs beneath the roots and armyworms in the fall, while chinch bugs appear along hot sidewalks where turf was replaced recently. The float test or the tug test tells us which pest it is before we apply anything.
THE FIRST VISIT
What We Look At First in Richland Hills
Sixty-Year-Old Gaps
A Richland Hills house built in 1958 has weep holes, thresholds and pipe penetrations that have been widening for six decades. We inventory those before treatment, because a sealed gap outlasts any spray.
The Drain Line
Storm drains and the low ground around them hold damp and shade, which is rodent traffic and mosquito harborage in one place. We check where your lot meets the drainage and work that side first.
Under the Canopy
Big trees keep Richland Hills yards cool, and they also keep the leaf litter and mulch under them wet. We show you what to rake back from the slab and treat the shaded beds that stay.
WHAT IT COSTS HERE
The Numbers for a Richland Hills House
The typical 1950s and 60s ranch in Richland Hills runs under 1,500 square feet, so year-round protection is $30 a month on Home Defender or $40 on Complete Home & Lawn Defense. Homes that have been added onto and sit between 1,500 and 3,000 square feet pay $33 to $38, or $40 to $51.50 for the whole-yard plan. Add rodent work for $25 a month if the inspection finds activity.
Because the lots are compact, mosquito, flea and tick service here is nearly always $49.95 a visit, the rate for lots of 7,000 square feet or less; a corner lot up to 12,000 square feet is $59.95. Visits come every 21 days from April through September, and there is no contract, startup fee or cancellation fee attached to any of it.
COVERAGE
Richland Hills ZIP Codes We Service
Richland Hills runs on one ZIP.
Richland Hills
76118
All of Richland Hills
New customers in Richland Hills are usually on the schedule within a week of the first call. If your address sits just outside the city limits, send it over and we will tell you straight.
RICHLAND HILLS, SERVICE BY SERVICE
What Each Program Costs and Does in Richland Hills
One page per program, written for Richland Hills homes: the real price bands, what the program will not do, and what we look at on the first visit.
Home Defender and Complete Home & Lawn Defense, priced by the square foot
Every 21 days, April through September, priced on your lot
Whole lawn and perimeter on the same 21-day program
The mowed edge, the leaf litter and the yard treatment
Broadcast bait across the yard, included in both plans
Chinch bugs, grubs and armyworms, and how to tell them from drought
Exclusion first, trapping second, $25 a month on either plan
