Professional Pest Control in Tarboro, NC
Pest control Tarboro can have out today: Empire Pest Control Inc. has covered Edgecombe County from our Wilson office since 1992, treating the old houses around the Town Common and the newer places out toward the bypass. Call 252-291-1108.
Tarboro service line 252-291-1108
Pest Control Tarboro Residents Can Get the Same Day
Empire Pest Control Inc. has run Edgecombe County out of our Wilson office since August of 1992. It is a family-run Christian business, licensed and insured, with pet-friendly products and a real person answering the phone instead of a menu.
The pest control Tarboro homes need is mostly the same list every year: termites, ants, roaches, spiders, mice and the odd bed bug call. All of it is ordinary pest work for us, and most of it gets handled on the day you call.
- Residential pest control for houses, rentals and duplexes.
- Commercial pest control for Main Street shops and county offices.
- Free inspection before anything gets priced.
Termite Control in the Tarboro Historic District
The streets around the Town Common hold some of the oldest standing houses in the state, and old heart pine on brick piers is exactly what eastern subterranean termites want. They build mud tubes up the pier face where nobody looks, and the damage is done from the inside out.
Our termite control starts with a free termite inspection of the piers, sill and band joist. Where we find them, termite treatment means a liquid barrier around the whole footing plus bait in the spots a trench cannot reach.
Moisture Barriers After the Tar River Comes Up
Anybody who lived here through Floyd, Matthew or Florence knows what standing water does to a crawl space. Even in a normal year, the low ground on the river side of town keeps the dirt under these houses damp from May to September.
Damp dirt rots joists and softens the wood that termites come looking for next. We laid 160 rolls of plastic last year, so a moisture barrier, a sealed crawl space or automatic vents is routine work rather than something we subcontract. Finished jobs are on our project log.
Rodent Control Along the Edgecombe County Field Edges
Tarboro is ringed by cotton, soybeans and peanuts, and the day those fields come off, the mice start looking for a warm wall. Rodent control means finding the way in first: a foundation vent with torn screen, a gap behind the dryer duct, a crawl door that never sat right.
Mice and rat removal from us includes sealing, setting where the runs actually are, and coming back to check. Two or three visits usually ends it.
Cockroach Control in Tarboro Apartments and Duplexes
German roaches spread through shared walls and outlet boxes, so a single treated unit in a four-plex tends to be money thrown away. Cockroach control works when the harbourage gets treated: behind the fridge motor, under the sink cabinet, inside the hollow of a door frame.
We work with landlords on multi-unit schedules and we will say plainly which neighbouring units need to go on the list. Ant control usually comes along on the same service visit, because the sugar ants are using the same routes, and that is the pest control Tarboro property owners call in most often.
Bed Bug Treatment for Tarboro Homes and Rentals
Bed bugs arrive in luggage, in a secondhand recliner, or with a relative who stayed a week. They are not a hygiene problem and they will not leave on their own.
Our bed bug service treats the frame, seams, baseboards and furniture on a schedule timed to the hatch, with return visits until it is finished. The same bed bug treatment is described job by job on our Rocky Mount bed bug page, twenty minutes down the road.
Ant Control and Spider Control Around Tarboro Porches
Carpenter ants get into porch columns and deck ledgers where the paint has failed and the wood stays wet. Fire ants push mounds into the yard by May. Odorous house ants trail the kitchen line all spring.
Spider control belongs on the same visit, since the spiders in a Tarboro carport are only there because something else is. Clear the insects off the eaves and corners and the webs stop coming back, and flea and tick treatment can be added for the yard if there is a dog on the property.
Commercial Pest Control for Tarboro Main Street Businesses
Storefronts downtown, restaurants near the Common, county offices, storage buildings and apartment communities: commercial pest control means a route built around your hours and a service log that is ready when an inspector asks.
Food-safe placement, unmarked trucks where you want them, and the same technicians who handle the houses. That last part matters more than people expect.
A Crew That Actually Drives to Tarboro
Search pest control near me from a Tarboro address and you will get national brands whose nearest truck might be in Raleigh. We are thirty-five minutes away in Wilson, we have been coming to Edgecombe County since 1992, and the office answers every call.
Weekday hours are eight to five. Same-day service is the norm, and the pest control Tarboro customers get is priced the same as it is at home because this is a standing route, not a special trip.
Edgecombe County Towns Near Tarboro
The truck that covers pest control Tarboro addresses also stops in Princeville, Pinetops, Conetoe, Macclesfield, Speed and out to the Rocky Mount line, so one run covers most of the county.
South of the river we work Wilson and Wilson County, and the smaller towns up 301 are covered from our Elm City page. Anywhere in between, call and ask.
- Princeville and Conetoe
- Pinetops and Macclesfield
- Speed and Leggett
- Tarboro town limits and the Tar River neighbourhoods
Tarboro Questions, Answered Plainly
We drive it. Edgecombe County has been on our route since the early nineties and the trip is about thirty-five minutes from the office. Plenty of people search pest control near me and assume the first result has a truck nearby; ask where the closest technician actually parks. A call to us in the morning normally means a visit the same day, with no separate travel charge.
That depends on how the water gets in, how the ground drains and whether the joists have already taken damage. We look first and tell you which one your house needs. Selling somebody a sealed crawl space when heavy plastic would do the job is not how we work.
Yes. We check the piers, sill plate, band joist, foundation line and any wood sitting on soil, then tell you what is active and what it would cost. No activity means no charge and nothing to sign.
We are an insect and rodent company: termites, general pest, bed bugs, ants, roaches, spiders, fleas, ticks and mice, plus moisture barriers and sealed crawl spaces. Mosquito control and wildlife removal are outside what we offer. For bee and wasp removal we treat nests on a structure but we do not relocate honeybee colonies.
Usually, yes. Most general pest work takes under an hour and the tenant can be back in the room once the treatment dries. Bed bug and roach jobs take longer and need the tenant to prepare the space, and we will hand over that list before the visit.
They are pet-friendly and applied along travel routes rather than broadcast across open floors. Keep animals off a treated surface until it dries, and mention any fish tank, reptile or bird when you book so the technician can plan around it.
Regularly. A good bit of Tarboro housing stock is a hundred years old or more, and those houses need a lighter hand and more inspection time than a slab built last year. We treat around original trim rather than through it.
Monday through Friday, eight in the morning to five in the afternoon. We are closed Saturday and Sunday and we are not a twenty-four hour emergency operation, but we answer every call that comes in during the week.
Our Tarboro, NC Service Map
Put it on the schedule. Call Empire Pest Control Inc., NC at 252-291-1108 or send us a message for a free inspection and a price you can hold us to. Family run since 1992.