The same species behave differently in different buildings, and the same infestation is a different problem depending on who you are. A tenant worries about a deposit, an operator worries about a review, a food business worries about an audit. This page splits our work two ways — by the kind of property, and by the role you are in — so you can go straight to the one written for you.
By role: what you are responsible for
These pages start from your position rather than from the building.
- Villas and compounds — you own or occupy a house with a garden, a boundary wall and direct ground contact. The work is mostly outside the front door.
- Landlords and property managers — your real exposure is documentation. Two dated reports, before and after a tenancy, prevent most deposit disputes.
- Serviced apartments and aparthotels — the programme is built around guest turnover rather than around a calendar.
- Short-stay and Airbnb hosts — the cost is the review, not the treatment. Response speed and a written clearance matter more than visit frequency.
- Embassies and international organisations — named technicians, product transparency, English reporting and a defined escalation route.
By business: what your premises actually do
- Cafés, bakeries and coffee shops — dry goods, long opening hours and outdoor seating make this a different job from a restaurant.
- Gyms, spas and wellness studios — the most humid commercial interior there is, and one where residual treatment on contact surfaces is the wrong trade-off.
- Supermarkets, mini-marts and food retail — the risk arrives on a pallet, so goods-in is the control point.
- Restaurants — kitchens, grease traps and HACCP records.
- Hotels — guest rooms, laundry and a bed bug protocol that takes a room out of service rather than re-letting it.
By property type
If your question is simply "what happens in a building like mine", these are the programme pages: apartments, offices, buildings and common areas, factories and production sites, schools and hospitals and clinics. There is also a short summary for homes and one for businesses.
What every programme has in common
Whatever the segment, four things do not change. The inspection is free and unconditional — you get the diagnosis whether or not you book the work. The quotation is written and names the species, the method, the areas, the number of visits, the warranty period and the exclusions. Products are registered and arrive in original labelled containers. And the follow-up is quoted in, not sold to you later, because eggs already laid survive most treatments and a single visit against an established population is half a job.
Which page should I read if I am not sure?
Start with how pest treatment works if you have never booked pest control in Vietnam, or renting and moving in Ho Chi Minh City if you have recently arrived. If the question is money, the price list gives indicative ranges before you speak to anybody.
Where we work
We cover Ho Chi Minh City and the surrounding provinces, with pages for the districts where most of our English-speaking clients live and work — see areas we cover. Global Pest Control is the English-language arm of Khử Trùng Toàn Cầu, based in Thu Duc City; Vietnamese-language services are at khutrungtoancau.vn.
Common questions
My situation fits two of these pages. Does it matter which I read?
No. The pages overlap deliberately, because most people are in more than one situation — a landlord who also runs a café, an operator who is also a tenant. Read whichever describes the problem you have today; the quotation is built from the survey, not from which page you arrived on.
Do different segments pay different prices for the same work?
No. Pricing combines a call-out element with an amount related to the treated area, adjusted for species and complexity. What differs between segments is what the programme contains — visit frequency, reporting, out-of-hours working — not the rate for the same treatment.
We are a type of business that is not listed here. Can you still help?
Almost certainly. The segments listed are the ones we are asked about most often in English, not the limits of the work. Tell us what the premises does and where the food, water and storage are, and the survey will do the rest.
Why we split the work this way
Eight property-type pages already existed on this site — apartments, offices, buildings, factories, restaurants, hotels, schools, hospitals — and they answer a real question: what happens in a building like mine. But they missed a whole set of people whose building is ordinary and whose problem is not. A landlord and a tenant can occupy the same apartment a year apart and need completely different things from us: one needs a dated report, the other needs the insects gone by Friday.
The role-based pages exist for that gap. They do not replace the property pages; they sit alongside them, and most clients end up reading one of each.
What we do not do
Two things, stated plainly because being told late is worse than being told no. We do not carry out fumigation of shipping containers or export consignments, which is a separate licensed activity. And we do not take on work where the honest answer is that treatment will not hold — a ground-floor unit backing onto an untreatable waste yard, for instance. In that situation we will say so at the survey and explain what would have to change first, rather than sell a visit that will be repeated every month.
Getting started
Whichever page describes you, the first step is the same and it is free: a technician walks the property, names the species, shows you where it is living, and sends a written quotation, normally within one working day. There is no charge for the visit and no obligation to proceed. Request an inspection.