6 Useful Pest Control Tips

1. Seal Well Your Garbage Cans – Garbage cans and bags are like treasures for animals like the rats and raccoon, who usually tear into piles of rubbish left outside to pick at the rest of the food. Discourage this kind of behavior by storing your rubbish in strong, air tight bags, and keep these bags in sealed garbage cans that aren’t unstable so they can’t be easily knocked over and torn apart.

2. Close Up All Wall Cracks – Seal up any gaps, cracks, or holes in the walls outside your house. Even holes small as a quarter are large enough for mice to get in, and more than large enough to allow insects like termites and roaches to get in. You can seal small cracks with caulk purchased from the local store, but for bigger ones you have to get a contractor to assess and repair them.

3. Make Sure Mesh Screens Are Good– If you live in a house that uses some mesh screens on doors and windows, be sure that they are well maintained, that means, tears, no holes, or gaps. This will protect your home from pests crawling in it through the windows, while ensuring that your house can get some ventilation when this is needed.

4. Maintain your home clean – Cluttered houses are the perfect homes for any pests. The more furniture, rash, junk, and other promiscuous belongings just laying around your home, the more hiding spaces for small animals and bugs there are. Keeping things clean not only improves the feel and look of your house, but also serves to reduce the number of potential hiding places, forcing pests to look elsewhere for lodging.

5. Keep your front and back yard clean – Keeping your back and front yard clean helps ward off pests for many of the same reasons as the previous tip does: trees and bushes growing near your house provide very easy access for climbing animals such as raccoons or mice, and piles of leaves left over from the fall season provide the perfect place for a burrow orden.

6. Call a professional Pest Control Service – If you’re still having pest problems despite following the above steps, don’t hesitate give your local pest control experts a call for assistance.