The People's Choice For Pest Control
When it comes to the health and safety of the occupants of a home or apartment building, pest control is a crucial aspect to consider. Eliminating pests from your premises preserves your home from serious damage caused by unwanted invaders. Bugs, rodents, termites, and other insects often thrive and reproduce in warm, damp conditions.
Therefore, these pests must be terminated without delay through proper pest control processes, which should also prevent your pest problem from recurring.
However, if these pests find your residence to be a suitable place to live, there are a variety of solutions to manage, exterminate, and prevent further infestation. For this to be successful, homeowners need the assistance of professional pest control.
Behm's Pest Control takes pride in professional exterminator services. We believe in a systematic approach to pest control, not only in eliminating these unwanted organisms from your premises but also in building lasting relationships with our clients. We also believe that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to pest issues.
Our custom pest management solutions feature flexible schedules that can work around your routine for minimal disruption to your daily activities. Our tailored solution, a pest-specific extermination approach, ensures that pests will not return to your premises. We integrate the latest pest control methods into our proven techniques for the best results. Trust Behm's Pest Control today for quality extermination services done right.
Signs that You Need Pest Control Services
You see a cockroach and kill it. Then, you start to wonder. Are there more? What other pests could be creeping into your home? Can you handle your pest problem on your own? In today's DIY culture where there are several self-tutorial videos on YouTube, you might be tempted to solve your pest problem on your own. However, there are signs that you need to hire a professional for pest control, and we outline some of them here.
Daytime Appearances
Pests just want to survive, so they avoid contact with people as much as possible. Therefore, they tend to be nocturnal. This means that, when they start to scurry across your living room or kitchen in broad daylight, it could be a sign of heavy infestation, and you need to call a professional for help immediately. Pests may start to appear during the day when there is heavy competition for food or when there is just too much of them to hide in inconspicuous places.
Sounds behind the Walls
Scurrying, scratching, or gnawing sounds on the walls can be signs of a rodent problem or large bugs. When this happens, it means that they have already found a home in your walls instead of taking their food outside of your home where they usually live. You may attempt to use over-the-counter solutions, but when sounds are already coming from behind the walls, chances are there are already a lot of them, and you need more than just a mouse trap or rat poison to get rid of these pests.
Property Damage
You may not be hearing sounds from behind the wall, but you may discover that your furniture, rugs, or favorite pillows or sweaters have bite marks or have been gnawed. You may also notice pencil-thin tunnels running along your walls or chewed-upon wiring. When you see these signs, you should consider hiring a pest control professional as they are indicators of pest-inflicted damage. With attention, this could lead to further damage such as electrical fires and structural issues.
Foul Odor from Droppings and Urine
Another sign of an infestation is rat droppings and urine spots on the floor of your kitchen, on the counter, or anywhere else in your home. The foul smell can indicate that the rats are already comfortably living inside your home. Other pests also give off a foul odor that can be immediately recognized. For instance, cockroaches have an oily odor, bed bugs have a sweet, musty smell, mice have musty urine, and rats can smell like ammonia.
Is Damage from Pests Covered by Home Insurance?
The short answer is "no." As pests such as rats, ants, cockroaches, termites, and other pests can cause thousands of dollars in damage to your home, nearly every homeowner's insurance policy will contain a clause that excludes gradual damage caused by these pests. This means that when pests damage a home for a period of time, such as when termites or rats gnaw their way through the walls, the homeowner, and not the insurance company, pays for the repairs.
However, homeowners insurance coverage can extend to sudden and unexpected damage (accidental) to your home. For example, if a rodent gnaws through the pipes and causes a pipe burst, the damage caused by flooding can be handled by the policy. Be sure to check your insurance policy if you have immediate concerns about how to resolve these issues.
What is an Effective Pest Control Program?
Behm's Pest Control adopts a scientific approach to pest control to ensure that the problem is eliminated completely and does not recur. We get to the source and solve issues in five simple steps.
Our pest management process integrates sound planning, intervention, and prevention to cover everything related to proper pest control and management. The following are the steps to our thorough pest control process.
Probing
Regular inspections are an important part of pest control. Areas where pests are most likely to appear, such as the kitchen, pantry, bathroom, basement, and attic, are thoroughly checked. Possible entry points are identified, and food and water sources are determined, and possible nesting places such as wall gaps, open pipes, and other inconspicuous places are checked.
Prevention
As with any process, prevention is always better than remediation. Therefore, structural maintenance is performed to seal possible entry points discovered during the probing phase. Food and water sources are removed so that pests won't reach them. Front exterior gaps at the foundation of the home are filled, and all openings are stuffed and caulked to prevent possible entryways. In addition, gaps found under the living room baseboard are sealed.
Discovery
In this phase, the problematic species is identified so that the proper treatment can be applied. Moreover, as pests behave differently, various approaches can also be applied. For example, rats may be more mobile as opposed to termites, which have a few nesting spots that can be determined. Therefore, pest identification is important so that the next phase can be performed properly.
Treatment
Whether non-chemical methods such as trapping or chemical approaches are used, treatment is applied to eliminate the specific pest identified in the previous phase. Usually, the most effective treatment is composed of multiple methods. In this way, we can be sure that all pests are flushed out and killed, and no pest would want to come back to live in your home.
Observation
The final phase is an ongoing process to guarantee that the problem does not recur. Through our constant monitoring of your premises, we visit your premises to follow up on the job that we have done. Any further problem is quickly solved, and we analyze and apply different solutions for those rare persistent pest issues. Also in this phase, we react immediately to make sure that the problem does not grow again.
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Whatever pest problem that a home or business may have, Behm's Pest Control is ready to take the call. We want you to have a bug- and rodent-free home or business, and that is why we take our job seriously. Quality service, professionalism, and customer orientation are our key values, and they are our tools for delivering trustworthy pest control services. Get in touch with us today.