Ice Innovative Care Of The Environment Inc.

When I moved in to my century home, I discovered a lot of spiders...so many that they were feeding on each other.... ICE treated my house and does a yearly treatment so they don't come back...it also took care of some other pests that I didn't know I had..
thank you ICE.....

Called this company to humanely remove 3 racoons from an estate property. There were 3 entry points on the roof and I wanted the animals removed with a one way door so the animals could leave and not return and the entry points sealed up and repaired. Estimate on the phone was around $700 and a $150 deposit had to be authorized with a signature before a quote would be done. (This should have been a red flag)
Quote came back at $2100 plus HST. Apparently the roof line in was needing attention at $1379 to validate their guarantee that the animals would not return. I asked just to have the animals removed and holes repaired with no guarantee as this is an estate sale and we wanted to move fast and the estate could not afford this pricing.
$2376 is extreme to remove these animals. I call this the "Bait and switch". Take your money on the deposit and give an extreme quote.
Shame and me for not doing my due diligence. This is dishonest and outright shameful.

These people are out to grab your money. Don't use them. They send boys out who have no idea what they are doing. I thought we had moles because someone thought they had seen one. We have skunks! they are tearing up our lawn and leaving holes that look like tunnels. A professional would have know the difference.

They set traps, for moles. Now after a few months of these traps in the yard, they just showed up and took them away. No phone call, no explanation. nothing.

I spent lots of time before I called them out on the phone talking to the office staff. I gave the office staff specific instructions, were to park, which days they could come ( I am the property manager, I don't live here) etc.... they continually showed up on days I was not here and did not inform me of what was going on.

We paid $185 for a 'consultation' to deal with our pigeon problem. It consisted to two guys standing outside our door for 5 minutes and then telling us we needed spikes.

They left us a quote for 18 feet of spikes for $572. As usual, if we went with them we'd get our 'consulting fee' back. They tried to upsell us on these things called 'daddy long legs' which we did not want. All was well.

We called to have them do the work but they're refusing to honour the quote. They're demanding over $700 whether we take these 'daddy long legs', or not. We don't want these ugly things hanging on the front of our house.

They are to be avoided. We had a written quote (see image) and they refused to honour it. It's that simple.

Here's a copy of Donna's email correspondence. She's the companies representative.

From: Accounts-ICE <accounts@icepest.com>
Date: December 24, 2015 at 7:42:04 AM GMT-5
To:
Subject: RE: Pigeons

We would highly recommend the Daddi Long Legs as a prevention as they help with the pigeon problem significantly. If you choose not to have the Daddi Long Legs installed with the cleaning and bird spiking the cost of the service will be $723.45 + HST.

AVOID THIS COMPANY LIKE THE PLAGUE

Called because we have a squirrel in our side roof. They came and surveyed the area I told them the squirrel was in. They set up one trap door where they thought the squirrel was using to get in and out and blocked 2 other possible points. We paid almost $700 for the service. A week later we get a call so they can remove their one way door. Pesky thing is still there I told them. They came back to reassess and told us that it is not a squirrel I've been hearing and that it's mice so I get charged another $100 and they give us another bill of suggested work. We refuse for the time being. The squirrel meanwhile has found another exit point and it's now running between our floors. After the third call they tell us that the service will be another $100 and that they will have to again reassess the work and that any additional work they have to do will cost us more. We paid $800 for two small pieces of sheet metal to block 2 small areas and for someone to tell us that what we're hearing are mice. The people are very courdial and pleasant but the service is not guaranteed. You keep paying money for things they say you think you're hearing because we're not the experts. I will not recommend this company to anyone based on the fact that I have now lost $800 for nothing. The amount of damage the pesky thing (or things) is (are) causing will probably cost us a couple of thousands in chewed up wires and such along with another couple of hundred dollars to call another company to deal with its removal.

I had to use ICE a couple of years ago regarding a serious hornet problem in the attic of my home. They had built a nest way up high in the attic that made it very difficult to reach. I had a fella by the name of Manny come by twice due to the dangerous and precarious situation of the nest. Manny was excellent who provided amazing customer care and who knew exactly what to do. It took a couple tries to get rid of the nest but it was done successfully and with ease.
I highly recommend ICE and would not hesitate to call them again if need be.
Jeff

I would highly recommend this company to all of my family and friends. I am extremely satisfied with the service I received. Great customer service, informative, reasonable pricing, caring, and punctual. It is not often that one finds a company with all of these great qualities. If you are looking for pest control or wildlife specialists then this is the company for you.