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Whether you live in a new home or an old one, you can probably benefit from preventative pest control treatments. You may even need treatments occasionally to fight off a pest infestation. You can't let bugs destroy your home or expose your family to germs and diseases, so keeping pests out of your home is important. Here are four types of pest control you might need.
1. Preventative Treatments To Keep Roaches Away
Roaches are common house pests that spread diseases because they crawl over sewers, rotten food, and dead things before they get in your house and crawl on kitchen counters and food you have sitting out. Roaches can multiply fast too, so preventing them is the best way to deal with these pests and others.
Getting pest control treatments on the schedule recommended by your exterminator is a good approach to having a bug-free house. The exterminator may spray outdoors every month or so to keep roaches and other bugs under control.
2. Bait Treatments To Kill Ants And Termites
Ants are annoying since they march into your home in large numbers once they've found food. The way to stop them for good is to wipe out the colony with poison bait. They carry the bait back to other ants in the colony and they eventually all die off.
A similar method is used to treat for subterranean termites. The termites take the bait back and spread it around the colony. However, since termites are so destructive, your pest control company may also suggest using liquid termiticide around your home's foundation or even tenting and fumigating your home to get rid of termites fast.
3. Trapping To Get Rid Of Rodents
Insects aren't the only threat your home faces. Mice and rats can get into your house and spread diseases and cause destruction. These are pests that should be eliminated fast. Since there's a good chance the rodents will keep getting inside if they live outdoors near your house, it may be necessary to eliminate them with snap traps.
Snap traps are often the best way to deal with rodents since the rodents won't be able to crawl away and die between the walls. An exterminator may set several traps and then empty them in a day or so and then set them again until they no longer catch any rodents.
4. Sealing To Keep Out All Kinds Of Pests
If your home is older, there may be many ways for pests to get in around pipes, in cracks on siding, through gaps in window frames, and under the doors. A pest control professional knows where to check for entry points, and they'll seal them so insects like beetles, spiders, and roaches won't have an easy time getting indoors.
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