Toi Toi pest control, under the floor and in the roof
Toi Toi's family streets sit close together around Victory Square, so rats and mice cross easily from one section to the next once winter comes. Under the floor, borer is the other job. Richard checks for both on a free inspection.
Richard under a house when the phone goes? Someone still picks up, and he calls you back.
Roof to subfloor
Under the floor: Richard goes over the piles, bearers and joists by torch for fresh borer holes and dust, and looks for droppings and nests where rats shelter.
- Where
- Inland from Britannia Heights and Washington Valley
- Postcode
- 7010
- Common jobs
- Borer, rats, mice
What to send Richard
- A photo of the holes, droppings or nest
- Where you’ve seen them: roof space, inside, under the floor or outside
- How long it’s been going on
- Who’s home: kids, pets, or a business open to the public
- For borer: the rough age of the house
- Work
- Borer, rats and mice, wasps, household pests
- Area
- Nelson, Stoke and Richmond
- Experience
- 15+ years in pest control
- Quotes
- Free inspection and quote
- Phone, or fill in the formPictures of what you’ve spotted help.
- Richard rings youHe asks what you’ve seen, and where.
- Free inspection and quoteRoof space, subfloor and section, then a price.
- Treated where they’re workingThen he checks back that it’s done the job.
Borer and rodents in Toi Toi homes
Toi Toi's homes give pests two places to work: the timber under the floor, where borer larvae tunnel for years, and the roof space, where rats and mice nest once the nights get cold. Richard treats both, as well as ant trails, flies, fleas, spiders and the odd wasp nest, for homeowners, tenants and landlords from Victory Square out to Vosper Reserve.
Richard starts underneath. Borer show themselves most in dark, unlit timber, so the subfloor tells him more than the living room does. He works along the foundations and floor framing, then goes up through the ceiling hatch for the droppings, nesting material and runs that show where rodents are living. Each pest is treated at the spot it's working, and later Richard gets in touch to make sure the job has held.
How Richard works in Toi Toi
Tell Richard what you’ve found
Call, or send the form with a photo of the holes, droppings or nest and where you saw it.
A free inspection
Richard comes out and goes through the ceiling cavity, the subfloor and the section, to find where they’re working and how they get in.
A clear quote
He shows you what he found and quotes the treatment before any work starts.
Treated where they work
Bait stations on the runs, the nest itself, the timber the borer is in: each pest is treated where it lives.
He checks in afterwards
Once the treatment has had time to work, Richard gets back in touch to see that it has.
Toi Toi's houses and the 1952 line
The 1950s left the biggest mark on Toi Toi's housing, and that decade has a dividing line through it. Boron treatment for framing timber began in New Zealand in 1952; anything framed before then went up in untreated native timber or early radiata pine. Two houses on the same Toi Toi street, built a few years apart, can sit either side of that line, which is why Richard looks at the framing itself rather than guessing from the age.
Not every hole is the same beetle, either. The common house borer leaves round holes 1 to 2 mm across in soft sapwood, and the native house borer, which goes for sapwood too, is hard to tell from it. The two-toothed longhorn is bigger, works into the heartwood and leaves oval holes. Richard looks at the shape of the holes on the inspection, so the treatment fits what's in your timber.
The streets around Victory Square are close-set, with Victory Square, Emano East, Murphy North, St Lawrence and Vosper Reserves as the green spaces between them. Close sections share fences, hedges and compost heaps, and rats use them as a road from one garden to the next. Winter is when they turn toward the houses, hungry and looking for warmth, and a gap under the back door or a loose subfloor vent is all a mouse needs.
Very good service did a great job, would happily recommend 3D Pest Control to anyone.
Tips for Toi Toi
- Look for borer in the subfloor and roof space first. The beetles prefer to emerge in the dark, away from lit rooms.
- Keep compost heaps and woodpiles off the shared fence line and away from the house; that's the route rats travel.
- Hear scratching in the ceiling on the first cold nights? Note the time and the spot. It helps Richard find the run.
Toi Toi questions
How can we tell whether our Toi Toi house was framed in treated timber?
Not from the street. Richard looks at the framing itself from the subfloor and the ceiling space, checks it for borer holes and dust, and tells you what he finds. There's no charge for the inspection or the quote.
Rats keep coming over from the neighbour's section. What can we do?
Richard treats the rats on your side where they're running and finds the gaps they're using to get into your house. In close-set streets like Toi Toi's, a word with the neighbours about their compost and woodpile helps as well.
Do you cover Victory as well as Toi Toi?
Yes. Toi Toi is also known as Victory Village, and Richard covers all of it, from Victory Square to Vosper Reserve and every street in between.
We also work nearby in Nelson South, Washington Valley and Britannia Heights. All Nelson suburbs
A free inspection in Toi Toi
Tell Richard what you’ve found and where. A photo of the holes, droppings or nest helps him see it before he comes out.
What to send Richard
- A photo of the holes, droppings or nest
- Where you’ve seen them: roof space, inside, under the floor or outside
- How long it’s been going on
- Who’s home: kids, pets, or a business open to the public
- For borer: the rough age of the house
Richard will be in touch to talk it through, then come out, inspect and quote. If you go ahead, he treats them and checks in afterwards.
Rather talk? Call 0800 166 028
Thanks, we’ve got your details.
Richard will be in touch to talk it through and set a time for the free inspection.