Termite Inspections and Control in the Eastern Suburbs

By Nick, Active Termite Control, licensed pest controller (NSW licence 5074559), Earlwood. Updated 11 November 2026.

Short answer: I cover the southern Eastern Suburbs from Earlwood: Rosebery is the closest at 8.4 km by road, Hillsdale the furthest at 14.1 km. Termite inspections are $330 single storey or $350 two storey. None of these suburbs is inside my 7 km zone, so general pest is $320 or $350.

What I've found around here

• Maroubra, March 2026. A single storey brick veneer house with timber floors. Termite damage and workings in the subfloor, borers, wood rot, and timber stored under the house. High risk.
• Randwick, November 2025. A two storey brick veneer and weatherboard home on a slab. My main recommendation was more ventilation to bring the moisture down. I'd done a full timber pest inspection in Randwick in April 2024 too.
• New builds: pre-construction termite protection in Maroubra in June 2024 and March 2026, and TermSeal on a new house in Mascot in September 2026.

Swamps, sand and a garden suburb

A lot of this area was wetland. Eastlakes takes in part of the old Botany Swamps, now the Botany Wetlands, and The Lakes Golf Course was built on reclaimed swamp (Wikipedia). Under the dunes along the bay, groundwater sits in the Botany Sands Aquifer, often less than 1–2 metres down, and domestic use of it is banned (Bayside Council).

The housing has its own history. Daceyville was planned by Sir John Sulman as a garden suburb and built after 1912; it's now a heritage conservation area (Wikipedia). Pagewood began in 1919 as the Monash Gardens estate, Holden built cars there from 1940 to 1981, and Westfield Eastgardens opened on part of that site in 1987 (Wikipedia). Matraville still shows its post-WWI soldiers' settlement, including a surviving cottage in Somme Way (Wikipedia). Rosebery is split between the City of Sydney and Bayside Council (Wikipedia).

Distance and price, suburb by suburb

Suburbs I cover

I work across all of these suburbs. The ones linked have their own page.

• Botany
• Mascot
• Banksmeadow
• Daceyville
• Eastgardens
• Eastlakes
• Hillsdale
• Matraville
• Pagewood
• Rosebery

Next door: St George, Inner West. Book: termite inspections.

Common questions

I'm in a Daceyville heritage cottage. Do you inspect older homes like that?
Yes. The full inspection covers the roof space, the walls and the subfloor wherever there's safe access.

Do you go as far as Maroubra and Randwick?
Yes. My most recent jobs there were March 2026 (Maroubra) and November 2025 (Randwick).