If a fly in your soup can ruin a meal, a pest in your kitchen or bathroom heat lamps can violate a person’s sense of control and order in their home. There are different levels of uncleanliness, and a pest infestation ranks right up there at the bottom.
Should you ever find a pest sliming its way through your home, you need to hire professional exterminators. Here are four of the top reasons why.
1. Chemical Treatments are Thorough and Safe
The best professional pest control services use strong chemicals that are ruthless on pests but safe for pets and the environment. The chemicals used must have both qualities.
You can’t have the pests returning, so the chemicals must get the job done. But they can’t pose any risk for your four-legged friends or have trickle-down effects that harm the environment.
Look for a company that uses chemicals approved by Health Canada before hiring them.
2. Proactive Pest Control
By the time you see a pest in your home, it’s too late — you should have called pest control already. Leading pest control experts offer a Home Protection Plan, which safeguards your home from pests 12 months a year.
Technicians will arrive at your home and inspect it for signs of current pests or any attractants on the premises. They’ll factor in the season and apply their expert knowledge to ensure your specific home is free of any pests.
The best companies also return later just to guarantee that the treatment worked. If the job isn’t fully finished, they’ll take care of it at no charge.
3. Friendly, Respectful Technicians
Having uninvited crawly creatures enter your home is bad enough. The last thing you need is a rude or unprofessional person creating secondary problems while dealing with the first one.
Look for a local, family-owned business where the technicians and the owners know each other and work closely together. There’s more accountability in a close-knit company operating on a smaller and more personal scale.
You may be on edge a bit while discovering pests in the home. You’ll be grateful for the calming presence of an expert technician with a sense of manners and graciousness.
4. Genuine Expertise
Finally, exterminators have wide-ranging expertise in the habits and tendencies of each pest species. Most people look at them and see a problem. They will look at the infestation and can tell one type of cockroach from another and, from there, pick the best path for eradication.
If you go to the hardware store and buy a generic treatment, you may have some success. Or you may not. When genuine experts are on the scene, there’s no question of the problem getting eradicated root, stem, and seed.
We’ve all been spending more time at home lately, and the last thing anybody wants is to hang out in an area full of pests. Remember these four tips and reach out to a professional exterminator if you should see an icky crawly in your home, rather than try to go it yourself.
