A Perth family pest management business since 2011. Second generation, run by a Chartered Accountant.

Four generations of farmers at Coorow.

Before any of us ever opened a drum of anything, the Johns family farmed at Coorow, in WA's northern wheatbelt, for four generations. Farming teaches you the things a city trade can forget: you manage pests, you never ‘control’ them; the season doesn't care about your excuses; and your name is only worth what your last job looked like. When our family brought that country work ethic to Perth, it came with us into pest management.

We treat your house like it's our own.

On a farm, the place you look after and the place you live are the same place. That's where this comes from. On every job, before anything comes off the ute, Dane stops and asks one question: if this were my house, what would I do?

The answer is usually the less dramatic one. Non-staining, low-odour products inside, and only where they're needed. The gap sealed instead of another spray. And sometimes it's no treatment at all, in which case we tell you and leave. It's also why we talk about the investment in your property rather than racing anyone to the bottom: we'd rather do a job properly than do it twice. Price is what you pay. Value is what you receive.

In Perth pest management since 2011.

Our family started in Perth pest management in 2011, working the northern suburbs out of a ute: roof voids in January, sub-floors in July, learning which suburbs have the sand that coastal brown ants love and which have the limestone that termites track along. That is where we learned how a good technician reads a house before opening a drum of anything.

The second generation kept the books for that business from the start and went on to qualify as a Chartered Accountant. Fifteen years of watching how service businesses quote by feel, promise by mouth and keep no records teaches you that the fix is not marketing, it is bookkeeping.

DJ Pest was formed in 2026 as the second generation of that family business, run its own way. Every treatment is carried out by, or under the direct supervision of, a technician licensed under the WA Health (Pesticides) Regulations 2011. DJ Pest Pty Ltd is a registered pest management business with the WA Department of Health (registration PMB 3000) under the Health (Pesticides) Regulations 2011.

Why the accountant's approach matters

Pest management is a trust purchase. You cannot see what was applied in the roof void, you cannot verify the rate, and you find out whether it worked six weeks later. Most of the industry's bad reputation comes from that gap: a one-line invoice, a verbal promise and no way to check either.

An accountant closes gaps like that with documents. So every DJ Pest job produces three: an itemised quote before the work, a chemical application ledger during it (product, active constituent, rate, areas, re-entry period) and a treatment report after it, with photos of what was found and a prevention plan. The ledger doubles as the treatment record WA law requires us to keep for three years. You get a copy of all of it without asking.

It also means the numbers are honest. There is no call-out fee, no deposit and no variation on the day without stopping to explain it. The investment guide is published so you can check a quote against it. The re-treatment promise is written down with its conditions rather than implied.