Service area
Where we work, and what drives the pressure there
This is not a list of places we will drive to. What gets into a chalet on the escarpment is not what gets into a cottage on the sand at Wasaga, and the buildings fail in different places.
Each page below sets out what we actually find in that community — what is behind the houses, how long the buildings stand empty, and which season brings the calls.
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Collingwood
Two towns in one: a heritage core with a century of accumulated gaps in it, and new subdivisions pushing into what was farmland last decade.
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The Blue Mountains
Escarpment country: the strongest bat pressure in our area, complex chalet rooflines, and accommodation that receives a different party every few days all season.
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Wasaga Beach
Sand changes what nests here, and a town that triples in summer changes when everything happens. Peak wasp aggression and peak occupancy land in the same fortnight.
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Thornbury
Village housing on the edge of apple country. The orchards behind the town set the pest calendar more than the town does.
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Stayner
Housing with working farmland directly behind it. The autumn rodent move indoors is heavier here than anywhere else in our area, and it happens on a schedule.
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Creemore & Clearview
Properly rural: century farmhouses, deep lots, working barns and a good deal of wooded escarpment edge. Wildlife work dominates here more than insects.
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Meaford
The western edge of our area. Apple country inland, seasonal shoreline property on the bay, and an established local operator we are not pretending does not exist.
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Craigleith
A narrow band of housing pinned between Georgian Bay and the escarpment, occupied hard at weekends and empty from Monday to Thursday for most of the year.
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Clarksburg
A village on the Beaver River with older housing and a valley that holds moisture. Almost everything we treat here traces back to the second half of that sentence.
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Heathcote
Down on the valley floor in apple country. Cold air settles here first, and the autumn invasion starts earlier than it does two kilometres up the hill.
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Ravenna
Up on top of the escarpment in open country. Isolated houses with pasture and orchard on every side take a cluster fly load that town properties never see.
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Duntroon
On the brow of the escarpment above Collingwood, where the wooded slope ends and the farmland begins. Properties here get the wildlife and the field rodents at once.
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Nottawa
A village on the old Hurontario road with farmland on every side. The autumn arrival here is sharper and earlier than in Collingwood, and it is set by the combine.
Not sure if you're in the area?
Call and ask. If you are outside what Collingwood Pest Control covers we will say so rather than book you in and cancel — and we can usually point you at someone local who does cover it.