Warehouse pest control built for North Texas docks.
Checking the corners other guys cut, since 2021.
Open bays are a reality of the business, so the service is built around them, heaviest coverage where doors stay open, interior rodent traps standard, and ant pressure handled too. Warehouse pest control North Texas operations can audit.
at the docks
Audit-ready vendor facts.
Compliance audits run on documentation. These are the facts your auditor will ask for, ready to forward.
BOMA Fort Worth
Building Owners and Managers Association, Fort Worth chapter, current member.
TPCL #850046
Texas Pest Control License · Commercial Certified Applicator.
★ 5.0 · 2,900+
Google reviews across DFW. Most are residential, same techs, same standards.
30% of revenue
Of Forterra's overall book, ~30% is commercial accounts.
5 years local
Three offices: Southlake, Dallas, Aubrey. Owner-operated.
Currently serving DFW property management firms, national retail chains, and commercial office operators. Reference list available under NDA during the diligence phase, we won't volunteer customer names in a sales conversation.
The dock line is the front line. We hold it.
A warehouse is a food source with twelve doors open all day. Control is a perimeter discipline, stations, seals and inspection cadence at the places product and pests move.
Defend docks
Open bays are a reality of the business. We build the service around them.
Exterior bait stations run on spacing where coverage is heaviest, with dock-leveler and door-seal inspection and brush seals where daylight shows. Rodent pressure from rail spurs and neighboring lots meets the line first, and interior traps run along the racking as standard.
Exterior bait stations on a documented layout
Numbered, mapped, logged. The station grid is the record.
Tamper-resistant stations run the exterior on a numbered grid with per-station service logs. Trends show up in the log before they show up in the product. A hot corner gets found in week two, not quarter three.
Protect product
Stored-product pests get monitors before they get inventory.
Pheromone monitors watch for the beetles and moths that travel in packaging, break areas get the sanitation attention rodents love, and findings land in reports your QA and your customers' auditors can read.
Four signs the building is leaking.
Between services, these are the four things a warehouse manager can spot from a forklift, each worth a call before a write-off.
Gnawed product and droppings on the wall lines
Rodents work the pick faces closest to the walls first and they run walls, not aisles. Chewed cartons on low positions, droppings and rub marks along the perimeter racking legs date the traffic and point to the entry.
Ant trails along joints and penetrations
Ants are a bigger warehouse problem than most managers expect. Trails follow expansion joints and utility penetrations to sweet, greasy or protein product, and a steady trail means an established colony feeding on inventory. Apron mounds move indoors when weather turns.
Daylight at the seals
From inside a closed building, every point of daylight at dock doors and levelers is an open invitation. A half-inch brush-seal gap is a rodent door on a food building.
Webbing or fine dust in stored product
Silk webbing in bagged goods and flour-fine dust below pallets are stored-product pests at work. The finding auditors flag hardest and the one monitors catch earliest.
The grid goes in within a week.
Warehouses quote remotely off square footage and dock count, and the station grid goes in on the first visit, usually within a week.
Quoting takes about a week. Often less.
Custom-quoted by property. No tiered packages, no franchise rate sheet.Properties under 50,000 sq ft can typically be quoted from a Google Earth review and one phone call, we know what we're looking at. Larger or unusual properties get an in-person walkthrough first.
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We meet you on the property
Most properties are quoted straight from the call and the form. Restaurants and food service get a 30-minute walkthrough of the exterior, common areas and dock or trash zones first. We document conditions and ask the questions that affect cadence.
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Custom scope & quote in 48 hours
Within two business days you have a written scope covering every service area, the cadence, the chemistry, what's included, what's optional, and the line-item monthly cost.
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Quarter one, establish baseline
We run the property on the agreed cadence for a full quarter. Tech notes, treatment logs, and station maps are documented. You see what we see.
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Month-to-month from there
After Q1, the agreement converts to month-to-month. No auto-renewal. No early-termination fee. You stay because the property is quiet and the reports show up, or you don't.
Everything the station grid includes.
The monthly number covers the full program, stations, seals, interior traps and re-treatments, with nothing billed back mid-cycle.
Standard scope
- ✓Monthly on-site service, exterior perimeter, common areas, dock and trash enclosures, mechanical rooms.
- ✓All callbacks & re-treatments, between scheduled visits, no separate ticket, no chargeback.
- ✓Exterior bait stations, installed, mapped, and serviced on the monthly visit. Replacements included.
- ✓Service reports & treatment logs, emailed after every visit. Pest activity logged for compliance audits.
- ✓One office number that answers, and every visit logged to your account history on each report.
- ✓Direct phone & text to the technician and the office, with the client portal keeping every report on record.
Add-on scope
- +Monthly or weekly cadence, for high-pressure or sensitive properties.
- +Termite monitoring, Sentricon stations along the building perimeter.
- +Mosquito reduction, exterior misting or in-season fogging for outdoor common areas.
- +Rodent exclusion, structural sealing of dock bays, utility penetrations, and rooflines. Quoted as a one-time scope.
- +Morning service windows, for tenant-sensitive accounts. Adds to the line item, never surprises.
- +Compliance documentation, for AHLA-certified properties or audit-required accounts.
Tell us the property type and the address. You get a scope and a number back the same business day, in writing.
Ready for a pest partner you never have to babysit? Custom-quoted by property, month to month.
Priced by dock and square foot.
Warehouse pricing scales with dock doors, square footage and station count. These factors set the monthly rate ahead of your custom quote.
A monthly rate. Monthly visits. Everything inside.
Your contract is written as a fixed monthly rate, billed monthly, with monthly on-property service. Re-treatments, callbacks, and routine bait-station replacements are inside that number. After the first quarter, the agreement converts to month-to-month, no auto-renewal, no early termination fee.
- Property typeOffice vs. multifamily vs. retail
- Square footage & site complexitySingle building vs. campus
- CadenceMonthly · weekly for multifamily
- Tenant access requirementsCommon-area only vs. unit access
- Access or compliance scopeHospitality, AHLA, audit-tier
Things we don't bill back
- Re-treatment between visits when something comes back
- Chargebacks for routine ant or roach pressure
- Bait station replacements due to wear or weather
- Phone calls, texts, and questions from your team
- Service reports, logs, and audit documentation
Commercial questions, answered plainly.
Operations managers ask these in the first meeting. The answers are stable enough to publish, so here they are.
Structure rather than product. Thirty days' notice, no annual lock-in, and the account sits with a local office rather than a national desk. For distribution property that matters when volume swings seasonally and the program should swing with it.
Food-grade storage and any on-site food handling change both the scope and the price, and those need us walking the site before quoting. Dry goods distribution with no food handling fits inside the standard industrial program without a visit.
Three offices cover the metro. Distribution property often sits at the edges of it, so we are careful about what we promise on response times rather than agreeing a window we would then reschedule.
Thirty days' notice, nothing annual. Operators in distribution usually expect a long commitment with a volume discount attached, and we would rather keep the cadence honest and let the work hold the account each month.
Yes. For a distribution site the real value is that they know your dock schedule, so a technician arrives when there is space to work rather than standing in a loading bay waiting for a gap to open.
We do. Licence 850046 in Texas, umbrella cover at five million, which meets the stricter requirements logistics operators and their own clients tend to impose. Everything is documented digitally and pulls up quickly when an audit asks.
In distribution property it is usually a shift supervisor rather than a tenant, and we log it against the site and report it with the monthly documentation. Nothing gets dealt with quietly and left out of the record.
Sensitive accounts come up in third-party logistics, where a client may not want a vendor identified. We still arrive in uniform and branded trucks, which we do not vary, and we work with scheduling instead to keep visits low-profile.
Beyond the warehouse
Distribution portfolios mix building types, and the service scales to each one differently. Start with the closest match.
Commercial service, city by city.
Warehouse coverage across these cities, each with its dispatching office.
Industrial corridors, covered.
Distribution clusters along the highways sit on existing routes, so warehouse accounts get serviced without special scheduling.
HQ Southlake
Forterra Pest Control
935 S Kimball Ave Ste. 162
Southlake, TX 76092
2 Dallas
Forterra Pest Control
8300 Douglas Ave Ste. 800 - #802
Dallas, TX 75225
3 Aubrey
Forterra Pest Control
9053 Ike Byrom Rd Ste 2C
Aubrey, TX 76227
Tell us about the property. We take it from there.
Commercial work is custom-quoted: monthly service, digital reports, month to month with a 30-day notice. Most properties are quoted from this form alone; restaurants and food service get a walkthrough first. Prefer the phone? (817) 665-6527, answered 24/7.
Get a custom quote
for your property.
One phone call. A 10-minute satellite review. A written scope and quote in your inbox within 48 hours. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you on the first call and refer you to a specialist who is, no pressure, no follow-up sales sequence.
- ✓10-min satellite review on the phone
- ✓On-site walkthrough if needed
- ✓Written scope & quote in 48 hours
- ✓No auto-renewal · no early-term fee
- ✓Licensed W-2 technicians, never subcontractors