Pest control for Ruby Bay homes and holiday houses
Beach homes, lifestyle sections and holiday houses between Māpua and the Moutere Hills. Richard finds where the rats and wasps are living, treats them there, and checks in after the job.
If Richard’s on a job when you ring, your call is still answered and he calls you back.
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- Treats
- Rats and mice, wasps, borer, ants, spiders, flies, cockroaches and fleas
- Where
- Motueka, Riwaka, the Moutere, Māpua and Ruby Bay
- Experience
- More than 15 years in the trade
- Quotes
- Free inspection and quote
- You call or send the formA photo of what you’re seeing helps
- Richard rings youTo go over it and book a time
- Free inspection and quoteAt your place, before any work starts
- Treatment, then a check-inHe makes sure it’s worked
What’s about this month?
This month is lit on the strip. Where a pest keeps a season, its band shows the months it’s most about.
This monthBusiestIn season
Tell Richard what you’re seeingRats or mice
Busiest June to August.
Winter is the commonest time for rats and mice to get into the house.
Wasps
In season September to May; busiest February to May.
Queens start new nests in spring. Nests grow all summer and are busiest in late summer and autumn, raising next year’s queens.
What Richard treats in Ruby Bay
Ruby Bay’s homes back onto the Moutere Hills, where orchards gave way to pine in the 1930s, and about a third of the properties are lifestyle blocks. The hills and the gardens give rats and mice cover, and the sunny banks suit wasp nests.
For a holiday house, give us the weeks it sits empty and Richard will plan the visit and the key with you. For a home, he works from the roof space to the garden and quotes what he finds.
Sections that back onto the hills have plenty of banks, scrub and sheltered corners: the warm, dry spots a wasp queen looks for, and the cover rats like. Richard checks those as well as the house.
How a job runs in Ruby Bay
Tell us what you’re seeing
Ring, or fill in the form and add a photo if you have one. Richard gets back to you, goes over it and books a time.
The free inspection
Richard visits and goes through the roof space, the subfloor and the outbuildings, finding where they’re living and how they’re getting in.
Quote, then treatment
You get a quote before anything’s done. Once you’re happy, Richard and the team treat it, working around your household, pets included.
The check-in
After the job, Richard checks in with you to make sure it’s worked.
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He went the extra mile and didn't charge over the top
Ruby Bay, between Māpua and the hills
Ruby Bay, Te Mamaku, takes its name from the small red chert “rubies” in the Moutere gravel, and its sandy beach is a safe one for swimming, a short way along from Māpua.
Before a road was built around the Ruby Bay bluffs, the district’s apples went out by ship. Today it’s a quiet run of beach homes, holiday houses and lifestyle sections under the hills.
Tips and questions for Ruby Bay
- Leaving the holiday house for the winter? Clear out the pantry and block the gaps around pipes and cables first.
- Check the eaves and the garden banks facing the sun for wasps coming and going in late summer.
- Keep the compost bin closed and the woodpile off the ground, away from the house.
Ruby Bay questions
Do you treat wasp nests in the hill banks?
Yes. Richard tracks wasps back to nests in banks, hedges, eaves and roof spaces, and treats them where they are.
Can you get rats out of the roof of a beach house?
Yes. Richard gets into the roof space, finds where they’re nesting and getting in, and baits them there in closed stations.
Is a lifestyle block treated differently from a house?
The house gets the same treatment, and the sheds, woodpile and banks get checked too, so the whole block is in one quote.
Richard also covers Motueka, Māpua and Upper Moutere. All towns we cover
Get a free quote in Ruby Bay
Tell Richard what you’re seeing and where. Photos help.
What to send Richard
- A photo, if you can get one: droppings, a nest, holes in timber or an ant trail
- Where they are: inside, up in the ceiling, under the floorboards, in the shed or out in the orchard
- When you first noticed them
- Who’s home, or when the bach is empty
- For borer, the year the house went up, if you know it
Richard gets back to you to go over it, then visits to inspect and quote, free of charge.
Thanks, we’ve got your details.
Richard will get back to you to go over it and book a visit.