Fire ant control: per-yard quotes that cover bait, retreats, and the drive. Free, no signup.
Flat per-visit fire ant quotes collapse when the mounds, the retreats, and the drive stay invisible. Start with Your bar: your target hourly rate, profit margin percent, and minimum visit fee. In the Treatment type card, pick a preset: Annual program, One-time, or Two-step. Each fills visits per season, all editable. In The yard card, enter acres treated, mound count, bait per acre, bait cost per pound, and on-site minutes per visit. In The leaks card, set round-trip drive minutes and miles at vehicle cost, plus your retreat rate. The season-long guarantee checkbox swaps the retreat rate for a 25 percent reserve on time and bait. The breakdown shows on-site labor, mound work, vehicle cost, bait cost, retreat reserve, and true cost per visit. The big number is the recommended per-visit price: true cost plus margin, rounded up to five dollars, never below your minimum. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING MONEY. Leak notes flag drive beating yard time, high retreat rates, unpriced guarantees, a zero bait line, and multi-visit programs. The gut check prices your old quote, and the season planner counts yards to your goal. Free, no signup, runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. An annual program at the defaults: 3 visits per season, 0.5 acre, 12 mounds, 1.5 pounds of bait per acre at $9 per pound, 35 on-site minutes, 40 drive minutes, 24 miles at $0.67 per mile, $60 bar, 20 percent margin, 15 percent retreat rate. On-site labor is $75.00, mound work is $18.00, vehicle cost is $16.08, bait is $6.75, and the retreat reserve is $12.26, giving a true cost of $128.09 per visit. The recommended price is $155, which earns $89.21 per hour against a $60 bar, so the verdict is PRICED RIGHT. A $85 gut quote earns $54.84 per hour, leaves $70 on the table, and lands $43.09 below true cost. In the season planner, an $8,000 goal takes 100 yards like this, 465.0 hours, which fires the over-400-hour warning.
How much bait per acre should I plan?
University extension guidance suggests roughly 1 to 2 pounds of bait per acre per application. The 1.5-pound default is an editable starting point, not a recommendation.
Why does mound count change the price?
Each mound adds 1.5 minutes of per-mound work. Twelve mounds at a $60 bar adds $18.00 of labor to every visit, before the drive.
What does the season-long guarantee toggle do?
It replaces the retreat-rate math with a 25 percent reserve on both time and bait, so unlimited free retreats are priced into the quote instead of eating the margin.
Why does drive time matter so much here?
The leak note fires when drive minutes exceed site plus mound minutes. Cluster stops or add a trip fee when the windshield eats more time than the yard.
Is this pricing advice or market data?
Neither. It is an arithmetic check on your own numbers. Defaults are editable starting points, not market rates.