Preparing Your Home for an Interior Treatment
Sometimes, due to environmental conditions or other reasons, homes are invaded by crawling insects and other arthropods. These pests include spiders, clover mites, centipedes, millipedes, and others. Control of these pests often requires changing environmental conditions, but sometimes chemical control is needed.
There are a few things that you will need to do before treatment to make the application safe and effective. Please have the following steps completed before our technician arrives at your home:
Sometimes, due to environmental conditions or other reasons, homes are invaded by crawling insects and other arthropods. These pests include spiders, clover mites, centipedes, millipedes, and others. Control of these pests often requires changing environmental conditions, but sometimes chemical control is needed.
There are a few things that you will need to do before treatment to make the application safe and effective. Please have the following steps completed before our technician arrives at your home:
- Vacuum the living areas of your home. Clean surfaces make a treatment more effective.
- Move furniture and other items away from walls when possible. Most treating is done in baseboard areas.
- Move items such as games and children’s’ toys to the center of the room, where no pesticide will be used.
- Put pet dishes inside cabinets until after the application has dried.
- Cover fish and reptile tanks and turn off air pump. Nearly all insecticides are extremely toxic to fish.
- Put away or cover all exposed food.
- Please close exterior doors and windows.
- Upon arrival at your home, your All Pest technician will review this list with you. If he does not feel that these steps have been adequately performed he may elect not to treat. We want to insure successful treatment the first time, and the preparation before treatment is an extremely important element of the eradication effort.
- Once your technician has verified that your home is ready for treatment, he will ask you, your family, and your pets to leave the premises. This is done to insure your safety and well-being, and to allow your technician to perform his work thoroughly and without distraction.
- You may return to your home in two to four hours, depending on drying conditions at the time of treatment. Once the application has completely dried, it is safe for you to resume normal activities inside your home.
