Once pests enter your house, it is not easy to eliminate them. You can end up spending an awful lot of time and money to alleviate the problem. Use these tips to prevent pests from coming into your home and causing a mess.
Keep your rugs and carpet vacuumed. You will sweep up pests living in the carpeting. When you finish vacuuming, dispose of the bag or empty the canister.
If your home has been infested by bedbugs and you believe you have totally eradicated them, be careful. Bedbugs can lay dormant for a year without food. This is the reason it is important to close off all holes in your home’s walls and floors. That way, if they are in your walls or outside they can not enter later.
Are you dealing with an ant infestation? Combat it with a mixture of borax and sugar. The sugar lures the ants in with its sweet smell, while the borax kills them dead. Use a quart jar with equal parts of each. Poke holes through the lid to allow you to sprinkle it around the foundation and baseboards.
Spray a perimeter spray around your home to keep bugs out. Spray around the foundation, porches, steps and anything near a door or a window. Look for cracks that pests can use as an entrance to your home. Use a caulk or sealer to plug these small areas off.
No matter whether you can see signs of infestation or not, have the entire residence examined anyway. Underground areas of your home may be infested with termites. Make sure to check out your crawl spaces and basements.
Quickly remove fallen trees from your yard. You can make good use of the branches as well as the trunk by turning them into wood for your fireplace. If you do not have a use for it, you can sell it or give it to someone. Just remember to get rid of the stump as well. A stump is simply dead wood, which attracts termites.
Having pests come into your home is much easier than getting them to exit. The tips from this article should help you achieve this goal. If you already have a serious pest problem, you should probably call in a contractor to deal with it.
