New Construction Treatment
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.
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.