I was just so impressed with the man from EnviroPro Pest, and I just can't say enough nice things about everything. First of all, we had a couple of big ants that we had found in the house, so we captured one and had it in a jar. We called another pest control company, they took a look at it, and said we had carpenter ants. They said what they would do about it, gave us a price, and we said we would talk about it and get back to them.
I was told that it's always a good idea to get a couple of bids, so I called EnviroPro out of the phone book. They weren't some big, national company, they were local pest control. We called EnviroPro and they came and looked at it and also said that it was carpenter ants, but that that it was the time of year they start to migrating and that it wasn't a serious problem unless we started finding more. All the same, the man from EnviroPro wanted to investigate and find out to be sure, as sometimes they have nests nearby.
He checked outside with a little rake and went around and dug around the perimeter of the house. I had a little wooden seal statue that I had had for probably 10 years. It was carved as a gift and I had set it outside probably about 3 feet from the house. The man moved it, picked it up, and the whole inside was eaten away with the carpenter ants. He found the nest, treated it, put the seal statue, full of ants and larvae, in the compost to be picked up, and highly recommended going around the house and spraying the perimeter. After he sprayed around the whole perimeter of the house, I haven't seen one ant since then.
The man from EnviroPro Pest charged about 1/4 of the the price that the other guy charged. The other guy wanted $370 some odd dollars to do a series of 3 treatments Also, instead of just jumping in and assuming what the problems were, he looked to see if we really even had a problem first. I really appreciated the fact that he went the extra mile to investigate it and find the nest. The other thing was that he said he was running a promotion, and if donated 10 cans of food to the food bank he would take $25 off. The one service ended up costing us less than $90.
I was totally impressed with EnviroPro Pest. They went the extra mile to provide excellent service, and another extra mile to save us a couple of bucks. I can't say enough good things about them.
David Yocom
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