Termite Inspections and Control in Western Sydney

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

Short answer: I cover Western Sydney from my base in Earlwood, from Lidcombe (about 19 km by road) out to Wallacia (about 57 km). A termite inspection is $330 for a single storey home or $350 for two storeys. Every Western Sydney suburb is past my 7 km line, so general pest is $320 or $350.

Three weatherboards in a row

Three of my recent Western Sydney inspections were on single storey weatherboard houses with timber floors:

• Merrylands, June 2026. Moderate termite damage. The termite shields needed replacing, there was wood rot, and I recommended treatment.
• Rosehill, August 2025. No termites, but wood rot, and water dripping near the house that needed fixing.
• South Granville, February 2024. An earlier treatment on record (a label in the meter box, drill holes in the slab), timber stored in the subfloor that needed to come out, and high susceptibility overall. I'd also inspected in South Granville in November 2022.

Rivers, a reservoir and clay

The Duck River rises in Birrong and runs through Sefton, Rosehill and Clyde to meet the Parramatta River at Silverwater (Wikipedia). Prospect Reservoir, finished in 1888, is ringed by Cumberland Plain Woodland (Wikipedia), which grows on clay soils weathered from Wianamatta Shale (Wikipedia).

The area isn't all one thing. Newington was the Athletes Village for the 2000 Olympics before it became a suburb (Wikipedia). Silverwater is mainly industrial. Out west, Luddenham is a semi-rural village less than a kilometre from the new airport, and Wallacia sits on the Nepean River across three councils, with a dairying and grazing past (Wikipedia).

New builds

I've installed pre-construction termite protection on new houses in Auburn (October 2026) and Toongabbie (May 2025 and July 2026), each with an AS 3660.1 certificate.

What a Newington customer said

"Excellent. Nick was great - professional and friendly. Got the job finished quickly, but with attention to detail. Very happy."Nick, a customer in Newington (Oneflare, August 2020)

Prices

Suburbs I cover

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

• Marsden Park
• Penrith
• Quakers Hill
• Seven Hills
• Auburn
• Berala
• Clyde
• Girraween
• Glenwood
• Granville
• Greendale
• Greystanes
• Guildford
• Guildford West
• Holroyd
• Kings Langley
• Leightonfield
• Lidcombe
• Luddenham
• Mays Hill
• Merrylands
• Merrylands West
• Newington
• Pemulwuy
• Pendle Hill
• Prospect
• Rookwood
• Rosehill
• Silverwater
• Smithfield
• South Granville
• South Wentworthville
• Stanhope Gardens
• Telopea
• Toongabbie
• Wallacia
• Wentworthville
• Westmead
• Woodpark
• Yennora

Next door: Canterbury-Bankstown, Hills District, South-West. Book: termite inspections.

Common questions

My Western Sydney house is weatherboard on stumps. What gets checked?
The subfloor, the stumps and the termite shields on them, the cladding and the roof space. On my June 2026 Merrylands job the shields needed replacing.

Is any of Western Sydney inside your 7 km pest control zone?
No. The nearest, Lidcombe, is about 19 km by road, so general pest is $320 or $350 across the area.