Pest Control Company - Newport News, VA
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Commonwealth Exterminating Co is a pest control contractor established in the '90s that provides animal removal, rodent control, and fumigation as well as other services to Newport News and the surrounding neighborhoods.
25 years in business
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Adam G.
05/26/2018
I am an agent at Greg Garrett Realty and Commonwealth has been my go-to termite/moisture company since the beginning of my career. They do excellent work and I have been very satisfied whenever I have used them. Cory Newell, Johnny Newell, and Chris Seek are wonderful people to work with! There was one particular time when I was especially glad that I used Commonwealth. A seller had an old house where we noticed signs of potential foundation problems by sloped flooring. I got the standard home inspection and a termite/moisture inspection. I also got a foundation inspection. The sellers wanted me to use their termite and moisture company that they had the property under warranty with, but I advised the buyer I was representing to insist that we get our own inspection with our own termite/moisture company. It was an older house that had settled and the inspectors had difficulty getting into the crawl space. Out of the 3 inspectors, the only one who said that he was willing to dig in order to get into the crawl space was Chris Seek with Commonwealth. Chris and I cleared away some rocks and he was able to get into the crawl space. What he found was 10's of thousands of dollars worth of damage to the foundation. The termite company that had this house under warranty refused to acknowledge that there was a problem (they probably never crawled underneath the house!). We were able to get out of the contract on the house that otherwise would have seemed to be a good deal. Someone else bought the house and to our knowledge, those major foundation issues with visible evidence through sloped flooring and plenty of evidence underneath the house have never been resolved to this day. After that, we found another older home in a historic district. While it didn't have nearly the sloping of the first home, Commonwealth did find that it needed a lot of work in its foundation as well. This time, the seller was willing to do the work, and the buyer I was working with not only had the problem resolved but got new flooring as a result throughout most of the 1st floor of their house at no added cost to the buyer! When I bought my own house, Commonwealth didn't find anything wrong with it, and I was glad to know that if something could have been found, they would be much more likely to find it and thoroughly resolve it than many other termite/moisture companies. When I had a bug problem at my house that I called an exterminator about earlier this week after traps I put out weren't enough, of course, I called Commonwealth!
Address
711 Gum Rock Ct Ste 5
Newport News, VA 23606