Coverage area · Oklahoma City
Heritage Hills & Mesta Park
Early-1900s bungalows a mile from downtown, on raised foundations with crawl space
What this part of town is like
These two neighborhoods sit just north and west of the core, and they are the oldest intact homes the city has. Bungalows from the early 1900s, many on raised foundations with a real crawl space, mature street trees, and original timber details still doing structural work: sills, joists, plate timbers.
That combination is the whole pest story. A hundred-year-old crawl space that has been quietly taking on moisture for decades draws termites, and decades of undisturbed attic and garage storage draws brown recluse. The two problems look unrelated from the outside and share one cause: old wood, close to soil, left alone.
What we see here, and why
Field findings for this area — each one names the pest and the cause specific to this land and these homes.
Brown recluse settle into attics, garages and stored cardboard, and the first sightings here are usually in the garage or at the attic hatch.
Subterranean termites find the wood-to-soil contact at original sills and piers; a raised foundation gives them cover instead of stopping them.
Rodents work the same old construction gaps: porch framing, utility penetrations, the gaps a 1920s house accumulates.
What to do about it
- Get an annual termite inspection whether or not the house has been treated before; the inspection is what finds the entry route.
- Have the crawl space checked for moisture and vapor while the inspector is under there; a dry crawl space removes most of the problem.
- Keep storage off the floor and away from walls in the garage and attic, and handle stored items with gloves.
- Ask for sill and pier documentation at inspection; knowing which timbers touch soil decides the treatment.
The services most requested in this area
Needed across the metro, in every era of homes, from 1900s bungalows on raised foundations to this year’s slabs on cleared prairie. The land and the pests change with the homes, so each part of town has its own page.
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Termite Control & Inspection
Inspection, soil treatment and monitoring across four eras of homes on red-bed clay Estimates $0 to $150 per inspection -
Spider Control: Brown Recluse
Living inside brown recluse range: reducing spiders and removing hiding places Estimates $150 to $350 per visit -
Rodent & Cockroach Control
Trapping, exclusion and building-wide work: mice, rats and German roaches Estimates $175 to $400 per job -
Wildlife Removal & Exclusion
Squirrels, raccoons, skunks and snakes: humane removal and permanent exclusion Estimates $150 to $350 per job
The rest of the metro
Every part of town has its own land, homes and pests. These are the other coverage areas.
Other coverage areas
- Bricktown, Deep Deuce & the downtown lofts Warehouse conversions and shared-wall apartments where pests are a building problem
- Nichols Hills & Crown Heights 1920s and 1930s houses on big lots under mature oaks, watered all summer
- The northwest corridor: Lake Hefner & Lake Overholser Postwar and new subdivisions within a street or two of open reservoir water
- The south side & the I-35 corridor toward Moore Postwar ranch homes and later subdivisions on the corridor that took the metro’s tornadoes