What's different in Minto
Homes built side by side
Campbelltown City Council's history says the Housing Commission planned rows of townhouses here rather than homes on big blocks. The first 55 were finished by September 1976, and more than 1060 homes stood by March 1980. If you share a wall, mice and cockroaches can share it too.
Later estates
Most southern developments began in the 1980s and ran into the 1990s. If nobody has looked at a house of that age for termites in years, it's worth a fresh inspection.
Bow Bowing Creek
Works in the early 1970s turned the creek into a grass lined channel. NSW Health says ticks like long grass, so keep your side of any shared boundary mown.
Renting in Minto: who deals with it?
NSW landlords generally have to provide a reasonably clean property fit to live in, so pests there when you move in are theirs to fix. Pests that arrive later because of rubbish or poor cleaning usually fall to the tenant.
If they got in some other way, such as a hole in the wall, you may not be responsible. Can't agree? NSW Fair Trading's dispute service can help.
If a swarm lands on your fence
Leave it alone
Campbelltown City Council says not to kill or interfere with the bees. Keep kids and pets back while you sort it out.
Note the details
A beekeeper will want the exact location, the size of the swarm and how long it's been there.
Find a beekeeper
The Amateur Beekeepers Association of NSW has a searchable list of people who collect swarms.
Bees inside a wall are different
Once they've moved into a cavity, the City of Ryde says you need a pest controller. That's when to tap it and add your postcode.
Our take on pests in Minto
In a townhouse, have a word with next door before you pay for anything, because a shared problem needs a shared answer. Renters should tell the landlord in writing first. Then tap what you've found and we'll pass it on.
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.
