When the last pest control treatment doesn’t hold, Vancouver homeowners call Pesticon.
Award-winning pest control, trusted across Vancouver for over 27 years.
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Vancouver’s damp winters and mild summers keep pests active all year. There is no hard freeze to knock populations back, so what happens here is movement rather than die-off. Our Vancouver pest control technicians work the same neighbourhoods every week and know which pressures belong to which season.
The most destructive pest in Greater Vancouver. They excavate wood from the inside, so by the time you see damage the nest is already established. We trace satellite colonies and treat deep into the structure rather than spraying the trail you can see.
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Norway rats and house mice are active across Vancouver year-round. Rodent removal in Vancouver only holds if the entry points close behind it, so we locate every gap, seal with professional-grade materials, and clear the population that is already inside.
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Full eradication across every life stage, eggs through adults, using heat or targeted chemical protocols depending on what the inspection finds. Discreet, unmarked arrival, and the 100-day guarantee applies.
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German cockroaches are the species we find in most Vancouver kitchens. Growth regulators and gel baits clear every life stage, which matters because adults are the smallest part of the problem.
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Rapid knockdown, full physical nest removal, and a treatment on the site that discourages next season’s queens from rebuilding in the same spot.
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Raccoons, squirrels and birds in attics, soffits and crawl spaces. Removal is only half the job. The route in gets closed, or the space is re-occupied within the season.
View Service →We also handle spiders, silverfish, fleas, moths, termites and bees. If you are not sure what you are looking at, send a photo and we will identify it before anyone books a visit. You can also browse the full list of services we offer.
The building changes the job more than the pest does. A detached house, a two-suite conversion and a restaurant with a shared waste room are three different inspections even when the pest is identical.
Detached houses, character homes, townhouses, condos, basement suites and laneway units. Where you rent, we document what was found in a form a landlord or the Residential Tenancy Branch will accept.
Restaurants and food premises, offices, retail, warehousing, property management and short-term rentals. Our commercial programme is scheduled around your operation and produces the service reporting a health inspection or an audit will ask for.
Every job runs the same five steps, whether it is one wasp nest or a building-wide rodent programme.
Two pests that look alike can need opposite treatments. Carpenter ants and termites both leave damaged wood, and the wrong product on the wrong species spreads a carpenter ant colony instead of ending it. Your technician confirms the species first.
The nest, the harbourage or the entry route, depending on what it is. Treating the trail instead of the source is why so many ant jobs come back in six weeks.
Targeted materials placed where the pest actually lives, not fogged through rooms where children and pets do. You are told what to do before and after, and what a normal reaction looks like, including the temporary rise in ant activity that means the bait is working.
Exclusion happens on the same visit wherever the repair is within scope. Where it is structural and outside our scope, you are told plainly instead of having it covered over.
Within 100 days, at no charge. No proration, no callback fee, and no requirement to be on a recurring plan.
A treatment that kills what is inside your home and leaves the way in open is a treatment you will be buying again. This is the most common reason people call us second, after paying someone else for a job that held for a season.
Rats fit through a gap the size of a quarter and mice through one the size of a pencil, so the openings that matter are almost never the ones people expect. Exclusion is the physical work of closing them, and it takes longer than spraying. It is the part that makes mice and rat control hold, and for the health side, including safe cleanup, see HealthLinkBC on rats and mice.
| Spray-only treatment | Pesticon: treat, then seal |
|---|---|
| The pests inside the building today | The pests inside, and the route they used |
| Crawl space and vents usually not opened | Inspected and sealed where the repair is in scope |
| What you get in writing: a receipt | What was found, what was applied, what was sealed, and what still needs a trade |
| When they come back, you pay again | We come back inside 100 days at no charge |
Vancouver runs a pest calendar most of the country does not. Winters rarely get cold enough to reduce populations, so instead of dying off, pests relocate. Knowing which month brings which problem is most of the diagnosis.
Carpenter ants come out of dormancy. Winged swarmers indoors in March or April usually mean a nest inside the structure rather than one in the yard, and that is a different job with a different price. Rodents that overwintered in a wall cavity start breeding again.
Wasps and yellowjackets. A nest the size of a golf ball in May is the size of a football by August, which is when most calls arrive and when removal carries the most risk.
The busiest signal of the year. Rats and mice move indoors within days of the ground saturating, and they use the same routes annually: gaps around service penetrations, unsealed crawl space vents, and the seam where an addition meets the original foundation.
Coastal damp keeps silverfish, sowbugs and dampwood termites active anywhere timber stays wet. Bed bugs and cockroaches ignore the seasons completely, because they live at indoor temperature regardless of the weather.
Most pest advice online assumes a detached house on a slab with a sealed basement. Very little of Vancouver looks like that, and the difference decides where the inspection has to go.
Open or partly finished crawl spaces with original foundation vents. The single most common rodent entry we find across the east side and Kitsilano.
A second kitchen and a second set of service penetrations added to a building drawn for one, usually without anyone revisiting how it was sealed.
Shared walls, shared risers and a shared waste stream, so a cockroach or bed bug problem in one unit is a building problem by the time it gets reported.
If the pest we treated returns within 100 days, we come back and re-treat at no charge. There is no proration, no callback fee, and no requirement to be on a recurring plan to qualify.
We have been doing pest control in Vancouver since 1999. The guarantee is the part of that worth putting in writing, because it is the part that costs us money when we get a job wrong.
Pesticon did an incredible job! The technician arrived on time, explained everything clearly, and solved our ant problem in just one visit. Highly professional and would absolutely recommend to anyone in Vancouver dealing with pests.
I had a persistent pest problem that was driving me crazy, but Pesticon Vancouver took care of it quickly and effectively. The service was professional, the technician was knowledgeable, and the problem hasn’t come back.
Amazing experience! They responded quickly and handled the pest issue with care. I haven’t seen a single bug since! Highly recommend Pesticon to everyone in the Greater Vancouver area.
Fantastic experience! Pesticon’s staff were courteous, efficient, and thorough. They solved our pest issue completely, and the results have lasted for months.
Most pest problems can wait for a scheduled appointment. These six should not. We run same-day and emergency service across Vancouver, and if what you describe can wait, we will tell you that instead of selling you an urgent visit.
Late-summer nests are at their largest and their most defensive at once. A nest over a doorway or near a play area is worth interrupting a schedule for. See how we remove a nest.
In a home kitchen it is a contamination problem. In a commercial one it is also a health inspection exposure, and that clock is not yours to set.
Every night of delay spreads them further through the home. Moving to sleep on the couch spreads them faster, which is the most common mistake people make. Read what bed bug treatment involves.
Rodents prefer the dark. Repeated daytime sightings usually mean the population has outgrown its harbourage, which is a bigger problem than the one you can see.
An animal in an attic can be scheduled. An animal that has got into the living space cannot, for its welfare and yours.
The requirement is immediate regardless of how minor the sighting looks, and the documentation matters as much as the treatment.
Not sure how urgent it is? Describe what you are seeing and we will tell you straight.
Two questions come up more than any others, and the answer changes depending on which side of the door you are on.
Under the Residential Tenancy Act, landlords are generally responsible for controlling insect infestations such as bed bugs. For rodents it depends on your municipality’s Standards of Maintenance bylaw, so the answer in Vancouver is not automatically the same as the answer next door. Either way the practical problem is rarely the law. It is proving the infestation exists and that it is not confined to your unit.
Tenants call us for this regularly and there is nothing awkward about it.
The split runs between common property and the inside of your unit, and it is set by your strata’s bylaws rather than the Act. When a council is working out whether a bed bug case belongs to one owner or the building, the answer usually turns on whether adjacent units are affected.
Most pest control companies in Vancouver will not put a number on their website. We will. What moves the price is rarely the pest. It is access. A rodent job in a house with a tidy crawl space and two entry points is straightforward. The same job in a character home with an open foundation, a laneway suite and a shared wall takes longer, because the treatment is only worth doing if the entry points close behind it.
A standard treatment for a common pest in an average Vancouver home: mice, rats, cockroaches or ants.
Larger properties, homes with more than one kitchen, or infestations that have had time to spread.
Quoted after a free inspection, because the size of the job is not something either of us should guess at.
The inspection is free either way, and the number we give you is the number you pay. If what you describe does not need a technician, we will tell you that on the phone.
Tell us what you are seeing and where on the property. A local exterminator reviews it and comes back with a free, no-obligation quote.
Two things speed it up. Tell us the building type, whether that is a house, a suite, a condo or a business, and whether you have seen activity outside as well as in.
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Ask three things: whether they are licensed and insured, whether the quote includes sealing the entry points or only the treatment, and what happens if the pest comes back. The third answer is where most quotes differ, and the second is the one that decides whether you are paying for this twice.
Most residential work is a single visit covered by the 100-day guarantee, and you do not need to be on a plan to qualify for it. Ongoing programmes exist and are normal for commercial sites, food premises and multi-unit buildings, where scheduled visits and monitoring records are part of what an inspection or audit expects. For a house, we will tell you honestly if one visit is enough.
Sometimes, depending on severity. We inspect first, confirm the extent, and give you an honest answer before any treatment begins. We will not sell you three visits if one will do.
It depends on the method. Contact treatments for wasps work the same day. Bait-based treatments for ants, rats and cockroaches are carried back to the colony, so activity drops over 7 to 14 days and briefly rises first. Bed bug results are assessed after the follow-up window rather than immediately.
Yes, and it is a good sign. The bait disturbs the colony and brings more workers to the surface before it takes full effect. Activity usually drops within 7 to 14 days. If it has not moved after two weeks, call us.
For most targeted treatments, no. Where a product does require you to stay out for a set period, your technician tells you before the work starts rather than after. Preparation instructions come in advance so nothing is a surprise on the day.
We use targeted treatments that are low-risk for pets when the preparation instructions are followed. Materials go where the pest lives rather than across open floors, and your technician walks you through exactly what to do before and after the visit.
Our Vancouver pest control team works out of the city and covers the surrounding municipalities every day. Each city below has its own page with local detail, and you can see every community we cover if your neighbourhood is not listed.
Inside Vancouver we cover every neighbourhood, including Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Commercial Drive, the West End, Dunbar, Marpole, Kerrisdale and the Downtown Eastside.
Not sure whether you are in our service area? Call and ask. We will tell you straight away.
A real Vancouver business with a real address on West Broadway, not a call centre routing your job somewhere else. Our technicians work out of the city every day.
Whatever you are seeing, pest control in Vancouver starts with someone identifying it properly. Free inspection, a price before any work starts, and the 100-Day Pest-Free Guarantee.
