I've read many good reviews for Dugwell Pest Control. For everyday pest control that may do very well. However, my experience was not as glowing. Dugwell came out to treat our log cabin for carpenter bees prior to the closing. I saw the invoice which went to both parties. All the invoice said was "treated" carpenter bees.
After the closing we had some things to move in. I noticed the carpenter bee activity and started looking around the outside of the house. I didn't see any indication the bee holes were treated. Could have been, but no evidence of it.
I called Dugwell and tried to find out what exactly "treated" meant. She couldn't tell me what exactly was done but she said she could send him there on Wednesday which was yesterday.
Since we are moving from Buffalo, NY we're not down there full time yet. So a couple weeks ago when we were there I installed a security system that I could monitor remotely. It consisted of 3 4k cameras outside and some inside cameras. Works perfectly. I also had a 6 ft step ladder that I used on the rear of the home. Not only was there lots of carpenter bee activity but woodpecker damage as well. I treated the entire back of the house with a foaming pesticide that goes in the "tunnels" and "chambers" After using this product I waited 24 hours before I filled the holes with silicone and wood filler. The next day there were dead bees all over the roof. Same in the front on the lower face of the house. The front face is about 25 feet. So I couldn't reach.
When the tech arrived he called me. I explained that I did the back of the house. I just needed him to focus on the front. No problems on the sides of the cabin. He said he would get out his ladder and "treat" the front.
Later in the day I checked my cameras and I just wanted to scream. His ladder was a folding 13' (maybe) ladder. He started in the back on the area I already did. But he stood on the ladder just enough to see over the roof and then used a backpack sprayer and from about 12' away just sprayed the hell out of the back wall including soaking my new cameras with pesticide. He sprayed the windows and then the camera a second and third time. The main roof was shingle and the roof over the patio was metal. Now it's covered in pesticide. So the front where I wanted him to focus was just standing on the ground and spraying the hell out of the front face of the house including the 2 sliding doors and big windows up above. I had paid a window cleaner $200 to clean those windows inside and out. He was there an hour and worked about 15 minutes.
I take with his boss who had excuses for everything. He said that just spraying the holes works very well. I don't see how that is effective. 95% or more of the pesticide is on the faces of the house, not where it needs to be at all. He said the policy is to not get on a roof. Not only did he defend this poor work, he told me to use another company. when I complained about the heavy spray of pesticide on my cameras he said, "It usually dries clear"
Clearly he doesn't care and this is how he runs his business. I'll file a complaint with the BBB and try to get my cameras replaced. Stay away from Dugwell Pest Control in Rocky Mount, VA. read more