The Figure, and What Is In It
A fixed £90 treats one nest. That includes coming out, locating the entrance if you have not found it, the treatment itself, and telling you what to expect afterwards. There is no call-out charge on top, no separate search fee, and no surcharge for the nest turning out to be somewhere awkward.
That last point is worth dwelling on, because it is where a quoted price and a final invoice most often part company in this trade. A price that is genuinely fixed has to absorb the nest being higher, deeper or harder to find than the description on the phone suggested. Ours does.
Why Wasps Can Be Priced Flat at All
Most pest work cannot be. A bed bug job depends on how many rooms people are sleeping in; a rodent job depends on how much proofing the building needs; a carpet moth job depends on how far it has travelled. All of those are quoted on what is actually found.
A wasp nest is different because the work is almost identical whatever the colony is doing. One entrance, one application, one visit. A nest the size of a football takes no longer to treat than one the size of a grapefruit, because the treatment is carried in by the wasps rather than applied to the nest. That is the whole reason a flat price is honest here and would not be elsewhere.
The Things That Do Change It
- A second nest. Two separate colonies on one property are two jobs. We establish that before treating anything and tell you, rather than putting it on the invoice afterwards.
- Height beyond a lance. Most nests on a two or three-storey building are reached from the ground. Something genuinely out of reach becomes an access job as well, and we say so on the phone rather than on the doorstep.
- Removing the nest. Not needed, not included, and rarely worth doing. If you want a dead nest taken out of a loft that is a separate small job.
Nothing else on a normal domestic nest moves the figure.
What It Compares To
The council route varies by district and is not always available for wasps, and where it is, the waiting list in August is the problem rather than the price. A shop-bought aerosol is a few pounds and, on anything bigger than a golf ball, generally buys you an agitated colony rather than a dead one — see the honest version of that in the article on treating a nest yourself.
The comparison that actually matters is not ninety pounds against nothing. It is ninety pounds against a colony still growing next to a doorway in the weeks when it produces the most wasps.
Commercial and Multiple Nests
The nest is the same price on a commercial site. Where there are several nests, or several units on one visit, it is quoted on what is genuinely there and told to you before anything is treated. Multi-unit sites and landlords with several properties are straightforward to do in one visit and one invoice.