Say No to Pests: 5 Tips for Your Home in the Summer
Old Man Winter has come and gone. Now you get to enjoy warm temperatures, extra daylight and plenty of sunshine. The only problem you are forced to contend with is if you have enough ice for your beer, or lemon sparkling water, when you’re relaxing in the backyard.
Oh, one other pesky problem:keeping the pests out of your home for the next few months.
Pests can ruin anyone’s summer. Ants, cockroaches, mice, spiders and all of the other pests can destroy a barbecue, a picnic or a nice Sunday family dinner in the summertime. Nobody wants pests, and it isn’t something any of us wish on our own worst enemy. It is terrible indeed!
Before you begin to notice any cockroaches or rats in your kitchen, basement or bathroom, you have to employ several preventative measures to ensure you never see them from May to September. If all else fails, you will need to hire pest control services, but let’s hope it doesn’t ever come to this.
Here are five pest control tips to avoid having pests in your home this summer:
🜠1. Deny Entry to Pests in the First Place
The best preventative step you can take is to deny pests entry into your home in the first place.
When you live in an apartment, you want to seal up any cracks in the wall, any spaces in the baseboards or any holes in the bathroom. When you live in a house, you want to repair any holes in the screen, seal up any gaps in your windows and fill in any holes you find in your walls.
🜠2. Keep Your Entire Home Clean
If there is one thing that pests are most attracted to it is a messy, bacteria-filled home.
To circumvent any pest infestation, you must keep your home clean at all times. This should consist of sweeping or vacuuming daily, picking up any crumbs you find on the floor or on countertops and immediately cleaning up any spills. Also, be sure to keep your kitchen sink free of dishes – cockroaches will be enthusiastic when they find some pieces of meat or bread.
🜠3. Take a Look at Your Cupboards
There are a few things pests, particularly cockroaches, like: dark places, tiny bits of food and areas to hide in. This is the perfect description of a kitchen cupboard. Whether you store your reusable grocery bags or you have bits of salt, you need to look at your cupboard and clean it out.
🜠4. Never Bring the Outside Inside
Shoes, toys, equipment, bags and anything that has been outside should stay outside. In other words, it would be wise to avoid bringing anything that has been outside into your home. This is especially true of shoes – always have a mat to wipe your feet and a place to properly store your footwear. Pests can easily attach to your shoes and then conduct an invasion of your home.
🜠5. Ensure Your Attics or Basements Are Well Ventilated
Next to cupboards, attics and basements are the next best places for pests to set up a home. The best way to avoid this is to ensure that your crawl spaces, attics and basements are well ventilated and dry. Otherwise, you will have an immense invasion on your hands.
A pest is what you get for living in a big city, where it is comprised of nothing but pests.
The worst thing about spring and summer is that pests sprout and are alive again. They engulf the streets, neighbourhoods and homes without any hesitation. You must always be on the lookout between May and September for cockroaches, mice, ants and any other type of pest. Even if you have an immaculate residence, you should employ preventative measures.
If you don’t, and the situation gets worse, you will need to hire a professional pest control firm.