What's different in Redbank Plains
White Rock at the end of School Road
The main entry to Ipswich City Council's 2,500 hectare White Rock Spring Mountain Conservation Estate is at the end of School Road. The council counts more than 600 plant species and 150 animal species there, so wildlife near your fence isn't a pest problem.
Six Mile Creek
The creek flows north from the estate through Redbank Plains, New Chum, Collingwood Park and Redbank to the Brisbane River. Its upper reaches keep real bushland, while the middle reaches have little or no vegetation.
Council stops at your boundary
Ipswich City Council says its role with pest animals is limited to council owned land, plus anything that becomes a public health concern. On your own block, it expects you to act.
Standing water is a legal matter
Under the Public Health Regulation 2018, the council says owners must make sure water collecting on their property isn't a mosquito breeding ground. An unfiltered or unchlorinated pool can be exactly that.
Which jobs are worth paying for here?
Termites come first. The QBCC calls them a problem for homeowners throughout Queensland and advises a yearly inspection and report. If someone quotes you a termite treatment, ask about two licences: a Queensland pest management licence, and a QBCC licence for the termite work.
A building and pest inspection in Redbank Plains is really two inspections. The QBCC says the building side and the termite side take different licences, and one person can do both only if they hold both. We pass on the timber pest side.
One huntsman on the wall isn't worth a call-out. Rats in the ceiling or cockroaches that keep coming back after a clean-up usually are.
Seen fire ants? Report them
Keep children and pets clear and don't disturb the nest. Queensland law gives you 24 hours to report suspected fire ants to Biosecurity Queensland, by phone or online. It's a report, never a pest job, so our form won't take it.
A wet weather walk around the block
- Go out the day after heavy rain and tip out anything still holding water.
- Keep the pool filtered and chlorinated right through the year.
- Lift timber and old sleepers off the ground and away from the house.
- Photograph anything odd from a safe distance, with the date, before you call anyone.
If it were our place in Redbank Plains
Get the termite inspection done first, then spend a Saturday on the water sitting around the yard. For anything you've seen or heard, tell us what it is and your postcode, 4301.
Want someone to look at it?
Tell us what you've seen and your postcode, and a local pest business that handles exactly that calls you to talk it through.
