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Ipswich

Meth testing in Ipswich

Ipswich runs some of the oldest housing stock in the south east alongside some of the newest, and they need different tests.

Testing across Ipswich

A worker’s cottage in Booval and a two-year-old house in Ripley are not the same testing job, and treating them the same is how people end up paying twice. The new estate housing is sealed, modern and even, so a whole-property composite reads cleanly.

The older homes are the ones to watch. Original paint, VJ walls, unsealed timber and open roof cavities give residue somewhere to sit, and it does not sit evenly. On a house like that a single composite across four rooms is the test most likely to come back under threshold while a genuine problem is sitting in one bedroom. If you suspect something in an older Ipswich home, start at by-room and save yourself the second visit.

We cover the city itself and out through Goodna, Redbank Plains, Springfield and the Ripley Valley estates.

Suburbs we work in

  • Ipswich CBD
  • Springfield
  • Goodna
  • Booval
  • Ripley
  • Redbank Plains

Not an exhaustive list — if your suburb is in the Ipswich region, we cover it.

Tests and prices

Prices on this page are placeholders. They are stand-in figures for layout and are not what we charge. Ring us for a real price until this notice is gone.

Presumptive screen

$249per propertyIndicative only

  • Result on site, same visit
  • On-site reagent test — no laboratory

A reagent test done on the spot. It tells you whether methamphetamine residue is likely present while we are still standing in the property.

Whole-property composite

$395per property, up to 4 roomsIndicative only

  • Lab result in 3–5 business days
  • NATA-accredited laboratory analysis

Swabs taken from several rooms, combined into one sample and analysed by a NATA-accredited laboratory. One number for the whole property.

Detailed sampling

$950from, scoped per propertyIndicative only

  • Lab result in 3–5 business days
  • NATA-accredited laboratory analysis

Individual swabs at individual locations, each analysed on its own. No combining, no averaging.

Book a test in Ipswich

Call 1800 638 483. Mon–Sat, 7am – 6pm.