When building a new home, it is common to consult a lot of experts. Builders, plumbers, electricians, and your pest control provider?
The truth is, consulting a pest professional during construction is critical to keeping pests at bay long-term. Much like how you lay out your home is important for electrical or piping construction, the design of your home can impact how easily pests are able to access and infest the structure.
Essentially, your pest control provider can assist you in two capacities during construction: Pre-treatments and conducive condition prevention.
Pre-treatments for New Construction:
The construction process provides a unique opportunity to employ powerful pest prevention treatments that can protect your home for years to come. Since pests are often reclusive, they tend to hide in secluded parts of your home. This can attract them to the insides of your walls, crawlspaces, floorboards, and attics.
In finished homes, this can make treatment difficult, since accessing these areas is often a tough task. Further, the signs of pest activity in these areas are often difficult to spot, since much of their activity occurs out of sight.
Due to these issues, it is often advantageous to pretreat a newly constructed home while the framing is still open. This can provide a layer of protection to areas commonly vulnerable to pest attack.
For example, borate treatments, a powerful deterrent against wood destroying organisms such as termites, can be used on the wood framing to make it poisonous for these pests. This creates a longterm deterrent against these pests and will make keeping your home pest free a lot easier.
Essentially, your pest control provider can assist you in two capacities during construction: Pre-treatments and conducive condition prevention.
Pre-treatments for New Construction:
The construction process provides a unique opportunity to employ powerful pest prevention treatments that can protect your home for years to come. Since pests are often reclusive, they tend to hide in secluded parts of your home. This can attract them to the insides of your walls, crawlspaces, floorboards, and attics.
In finished homes, this can make treatment difficult, since accessing these areas is often a tough task. Further, the signs of pest activity in these areas are often difficult to spot, since much of their activity occurs out of sight.
Due to these issues, it is often advantageous to pretreat a newly constructed home while the framing is still open. This can provide a layer of protection to areas commonly vulnerable to pest attack.
For example, borate treatments, a powerful deterrent against wood destroying organisms such as termites, can be used on the wood framing to make it poisonous for these pests. This creates a longterm deterrent against these pests and will make keeping your home pest free a lot easier.
But how is this done? What are the general steps for indoor pest control?
If you are dealing with pests inside your home, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the problem. Pests can seem to be everywhere all at once, and nothing you do may seem to deal with the problem.
However, the truth is, no pest problem is unbeatable. With the right assistance, even the most heavily infested homes can become PEST FREE!
It is important to understand that effective pest control is a comprehensive, multi-step procedure. A lot more goes into pest control than just pesticide application. In fact, pesticide application is often a last step option, used after other alternatives have been exhausted.
Solving your pest problems can essentially be broken into two key processes: identifying conducive conditions allowing pests to thrive in your home and eradicating existing pest populations.
Identifying Conducive Conditions:
Pests rarely enter your home by accident. While an occasional pest in your home is not unusual, a large population can only exist if certain environmental conditions are in its favor. Pests of all kinds require food, moisture, and certain environmental conditions to thrive, and this can attract them to your home.
As an example, cockroaches require environments with a high amount of moisture to survive. As such, they are often attracted to homes with water damage, and indoors they tend to infest in close proximity to bathrooms and kitchens, which often provide them with the moisture that they need. By dealing with this excess moisture, you can make your home less attractive to cockroaches, and therefore less likely to be infested in future.
Without conducive condition control, pests will continue to infest your home in the future. Dealing with these types of problems is absolutely essential to keeping pests out of your home.
Eradicating Pest Populations:
Even if all conducive conditions are dealt with, an existing pest population in your home must still be dealt with to resolve your pest problems. Pest infestations, particularly those of social insects such as termites, can be a longterm problem as generations of pests are born and spread throughout your home. These populations must be directly targeted to achieve any meaningful results.
But just spraying pesticide over your home is not always effective, and it can be a safety hazard. While pesticide products are sometimes necessary to deal with pest populations, they should be used sparingly to keep you and your home safe.
At Blease Exterminating, we understand the critical importance of safe product use, and as such we use pesticides sparingly, concentrating on areas that pests are gathered that are out of your way. We take your safety very seriously, and as such we never use products in any way that could represent a safety or health threat for you, your family, or your pets.
However, the truth is, no pest problem is unbeatable. With the right assistance, even the most heavily infested homes can become PEST FREE!
It is important to understand that effective pest control is a comprehensive, multi-step procedure. A lot more goes into pest control than just pesticide application. In fact, pesticide application is often a last step option, used after other alternatives have been exhausted.
Solving your pest problems can essentially be broken into two key processes: identifying conducive conditions allowing pests to thrive in your home and eradicating existing pest populations.
Identifying Conducive Conditions:
Pests rarely enter your home by accident. While an occasional pest in your home is not unusual, a large population can only exist if certain environmental conditions are in its favor. Pests of all kinds require food, moisture, and certain environmental conditions to thrive, and this can attract them to your home.
As an example, cockroaches require environments with a high amount of moisture to survive. As such, they are often attracted to homes with water damage, and indoors they tend to infest in close proximity to bathrooms and kitchens, which often provide them with the moisture that they need. By dealing with this excess moisture, you can make your home less attractive to cockroaches, and therefore less likely to be infested in future.
Without conducive condition control, pests will continue to infest your home in the future. Dealing with these types of problems is absolutely essential to keeping pests out of your home.
Eradicating Pest Populations:
Even if all conducive conditions are dealt with, an existing pest population in your home must still be dealt with to resolve your pest problems. Pest infestations, particularly those of social insects such as termites, can be a longterm problem as generations of pests are born and spread throughout your home. These populations must be directly targeted to achieve any meaningful results.
But just spraying pesticide over your home is not always effective, and it can be a safety hazard. While pesticide products are sometimes necessary to deal with pest populations, they should be used sparingly to keep you and your home safe.
At Blease Exterminating, we understand the critical importance of safe product use, and as such we use pesticides sparingly, concentrating on areas that pests are gathered that are out of your way. We take your safety very seriously, and as such we never use products in any way that could represent a safety or health threat for you, your family, or your pets.
So, how do I get started with pest control for my home?
If you have a pest problem in your home, the solution is just a phone call away! Just call us TODAY at 229-891-3501 and schedule an inspection of your home!
One of our highly trained technicians (pest professionals!) will look over your home comprehensively, identifying any signs of pest activity and conducive conditions that might be facilitating their spread. From there, we can diagnose your overall pest problem and provide a custom fit solution that safely and effectively targets pests in and around your home!
One of our highly trained technicians (pest professionals!) will look over your home comprehensively, identifying any signs of pest activity and conducive conditions that might be facilitating their spread. From there, we can diagnose your overall pest problem and provide a custom fit solution that safely and effectively targets pests in and around your home!
If you have a problem or even a question about termites, ants, roaches, mosquitoes, bedbugs, rats, mice or any other pest call Blease Exterminating today!
PS. Consultation is FREE and so is their exclusive FREE 58 Point Pest Analysis of your home or office So call TODAY!
PS. Consultation is FREE and so is their exclusive FREE 58 Point Pest Analysis of your home or office So call TODAY!