Calgary & surrounding areas
Cockroach Inspection
An inspection answers the questions a treatment plan cannot start without: which species, where they are actually living, and how far it has gone. That matters more with cockroaches than with almost anything else we handle — a German cockroach population in a kitchen and a single larger species coming up a floor drain are two entirely different jobs.
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How we handle it
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Species identification
German cockroaches breed fast, stay close to warmth and moisture and spread through a building; the larger species behave differently and often turn up as strays from drains and voids. Confirming which one you have decides everything that follows, including whether the building needs to be involved.
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Harbourage mapping
We look where they live rather than where they were seen — motor housings behind fridges and dishwashers, the voids under kickboards, hot-water lines, plumbing chases, false ceilings and the underside of equipment in a commercial kitchen. The map of harbourage points is what a treatment gets aimed at.
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Monitor placement
Numbered monitors go into the locations that matter and are left to do their work. Over the following days they show where activity concentrates and how heavy it is, which turns an argument about whether there is a problem into a record of where it is. In food premises this is the difference between guessing and knowing.
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Written findings
You get a written report — species, harbourage locations, monitor results, and the moisture and sanitation conditions keeping the population alive. If nothing is found, the report says so and no treatment is recommended. For restaurants and food premises the report is a document you can put in the food-safety file.
What you might notice
- 01A live insect seen at night when a kitchen or bathroom light goes on
- 02Dark droppings like coarse pepper near appliances or in drawers
- 03Egg cases in cabinet hinges, behind kickboards or under shelving
- 04An oily, musty smell that returns after cleaning
- 05A neighbouring unit in your building being treated
Every job includes
- An Alberta-licensed technician, not a subcontractor
- A written record of what was found and what was applied
- Same-day service whenever the schedule allows
- Guaranteed results: if they come back, so do we
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Where we work
Cockroach Inspection across Calgary
We inspect for cockroaches in homes, apartments, condos, restaurants, commercial kitchens and food premises across Calgary, including multi-unit buildings where a property manager needs to know whether the problem is one suite or the stack. We also inspect in Airdrie, Chestermere, Cochrane, Okotoks and Strathmore.
- Calgary
- Airdrie
- Chestermere
- Cochrane
- Okotoks
- Strathmore
Common questions
Cockroach Inspection — straight answers
Why not just treat and skip the inspection?
Because the two most common reasons cockroach treatments fail are the wrong species assumption and missed harbourage. Product placed where the insects are not living achieves very little, and in a shared building a treatment that ignores the neighbouring units buys months rather than a fix. If you already know what you have and where, we are happy to go straight to treatment.
I only saw one. Do I really have an infestation?
It depends entirely on the species, which is the point of identifying it. One German cockroach in a kitchen almost always means a population you have not seen yet, because they hide well and breed quickly. One large cockroach in a basement near a floor drain may genuinely be a stray. We would rather establish which of those it is than assume either way.
How long before you know what the monitors are showing?
The visual inspection gives you an answer on the day. The monitors need days to be meaningful — they are catching what moves at night through the spots we placed them in, and a single evening tells you less than a week does. We will agree the timeline with you when we place them.
We run a restaurant — will we get documentation?
Yes, and it is written with that in mind. You get the species, the locations, the monitor record and the conditions we found, in a form you can keep on file and show an inspector or a head office auditor. We service a large number of Calgary restaurants and commercial kitchens and schedule inspections around trading hours.
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