One of the most important things about owning a home is that you feel comfortable and safe. But if you’ve got unwelcome visitors, like rats or bugs that threaten your health and even your home, it’s so much harder to feel happy. Infestations can be potentially traumatic, especially if things get into your food or your bed.
So, here are some tips to help you secure your home and your backyard from pests that might spread disease, damage property, or try to steal food.
Check For Gaps and Cracks
One of the first things you need to do when you have pests is to figure out where they are and how they’re getting onto your property. This can be harder when they’re in your backyard, but you can sometimes make your home more secure.
Pests can’t open handles, but they can squeeze through small gaps like those that form between your walls and play windows with failing seals. If you see these issues, get new windows to make your home more secure. You should also look for cracks, holes, and other signs of minor structural damage that can give pests a way to get into your home.
If you do like to have your windows open, screens can allow you to still have a nice breeze and some fresh air, but without also inviting every insect in the neighbourhood into your home.
Get Rid of Food Sources
As well as trying to get rid of the method of entry for the pests, you should also try to get rid of their reasons to enter your property. Pests, like most animals, are usually after two things. They want food and shelter. While you can’t make your home not a shelter anymore, as that would make your life more miserable, you can take away potential food sources.
Keep your property free of food waste. Clean up any crumbs or food left behind and secure your food waste. If you have a compost bin, you may need to find ways to keep it free of opportunistic pests, and definitely keep it away from your property.
Depending on the type of pests in your area, they may be more persistent than you might expect. But if you do all you can to make food less accessible to them, they might move on.
Get an Exterminator
If all else fails, you might need to get an exterminator to deal with your problem or infestation. There are a few ways to safely get rid of pests yourself, but in some cases, or if you have a lot of them, you need to get a professional involved. The right exterminator depends on the type of infestation you have.
Get local Mosquito Control Services if you have a plague of mosquitoes, for example, as they’ll know the best way to get rid of them. Exterminators will help you end the past problem and, hopefully, prevent them from coming back in the future.
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