You’re showing a guest around your kitchen, pointing out the new design features you selected so carefully, like the granite counters, the subway tile backsplash, and the farmhouse sink. Suddenly, to your deepest chagrin, what emerges from under the sink but a mud-brown cockroach.
It’s hard to think of a more immediate turn-off. Whether you want to create the impression of living in a home featured in Architectural Digest or simply being the king or queen of their modest castle, keeping pesky pests away is essential.
Let’s review a few tips you can keep in mind to help your home remain pest-free all summer.
Avoid Attractants
Most critters are looking for what all creatures want: food. Keeping a tidier home is an excellent first step to preventing pests, especially in spaces that store the things pests like, such as bathrooms and kitchens.
Cockroaches are attracted to moisture, which is why they love the spaces underneath and around kitchen and bathroom sinks. Keeping these areas dry is crucial. They also love decomposing fruit, as do other pests, like fruit flies. Don’t keep those rotting apple cores on the counter forever, and ensure your sink is free of any rinds.
Also, don’t leave too many crumbs on the countertop. It could attract ants and other unsavoury characters, like roaches, mice, or rats. Anything you can do to pre-emptively prevent these pests from entering your home space is worth doing.
However, keeping what attracts pests away can only take you so far. People need to prepare food in their kitchen. You can’t avoid having fruit in your kitchen forever. If it’s too late and the pests are already inside, you’ll need to take serious action.
Professional Pest Experts
The city’s best pest control company can exterminate any pest situation already affecting you, giving you peace of mind that they’ll get every last critter and that they’ll never come back. Industry leaders use their own anti-pest concoction, harnessing their specialized scientific knowledge to create a spray that will be ruthless and thorough against pests.
However, the chemicals need to be as friendly towards pets and the environment as it is tough against pests. The best pest control experts use Health Canada-approved chemicals, so they’ve been vetted and inspected.
Be kind to the environment and all your four-legged friends. The last thing you want is to create new problems downstream after ridding the pests. Using pest control experts instead of relying on chemical solutions they sell at hardware stores is an excellent way to get at the heart of the issue faster.
Exterminators don’t just shoot a spray into an affected area. They’ll use their knowledge of every pest species to suss them out and find their habitats, then destroy them.
Home Protection Plan
If you’re giving someone the tour of your home and you notice a roach, you’ll want to kill them all with the passion of a thousand suns. But by then, it’s too late. The best thing you can do is prevent roaches and other pests from entering in the first place.
Leading pest control companies offer Home Protection Plans that proactively guard your home against pests. From tiny, invasive pests like bedbugs to birds damaging the outside of your property, homeowners need to fend off a range of threats. It’s helpful to meet them all by accessing one simple service.
The most comprehensive services will visit your premises for an inspection. They’ll do a treatment for any existing pest issues and remove any attractants on the property. Then, weeks later, they’ll return for another inspection to confirm that there are no signs of pests.
If for some reason there are, they’ll do another treatment for free and fix the problem. The Home Protection Plan will keep your home clean 24/7/365 and promote good health, so you never even have to think about icky things like cockroaches, bed bugs, mice, rats, and more.
You are probably eager to host people in your home after so many months of not doing so. Perhaps you’ve made significant renovations or changes to where you live while spending so much time indoors. Make sure that it’s clean and pest-free by keeping the above tips in mind. If these don’t work, or to take measures into your own hands proactively, call the professional pest control expert near you.
