Our families, colleagues and people nearby are not the only ones living inhabiting or working in an establishment. Be it the homes, the office buildings, schools, hotels or restaurants, we often are visited and most of the time involuntarily maintain for long these living creatures who aim at no good for our and our facility’s well being.
Yes, these are the pests including insects, rodents and other critters who find their way into human settlements and feast and loom on our stuff. It seems almost ignorable until we find nibbed mattresses and furniture, insect colonies in our kitchen, shocker rodents being all comfy in the closet to the worst of all falling prey to diseases.
In between and beyond the stage when a pest infestation has spread, we familiarize ourselves with pest control and either seek the help of the professionals or even undertake the cleansing in our own hands.
While pest control is mostly pest elimination upon an emergency call, some consider it precautionary hence avail of such services before moving into settlements and even on a monthly basis. But opting for professional pest control over the self-help DIYs is an intuitive choice you must make in order to keep the pests at bay.
A professional or a commercial pest control will bring in an elaborate set of SOPs and precautionary measures for you and the people around you to follow. This includes emptying the house or the facility of people and other movable items, wrapping eatables and other items of everyday use and then after the services are performed assorting things back in order and inhibiting contact of surfaces that have been sprayed upon.
Basically, every item in the facility has been disinfected there’s a need to be cautious especially until the surfaces have dried. In some situations, employing Traps, chemicals, electromagnetic repellers, poisons, and fumigating yourselves can also get the job done with minimum effort. Hence it falls upon the consumer to look for means that will solve the issue in consideration efficiently with minimum expense, effort and time.
Let’s begin by delving into what makes the Commercial pest control service a boon and other times a bane.
1. Expert exercise:
Commercial pest control relies on experts with years of experience and training that then assign them the fieldwork. It’s always better than opting to do it yourself especially where the professional addressal of the pests is needed to avoid infestation or worse to treat an infestation beyond control.
2. Chemist’s knowledge:
Other than the organic and natural pesticides and insecticides, pest control demands caution in handling as well as in the aftermaths. The practical proportion of events sometimes holds more value than the ideal as prescribed on the bottles you would purchase over the counter. As it again relies on the experience in the field, it is better to rely on the experts in performing the pest control at your homes, offices, schools or restaurant places.
3. A distinguished set of guidelines before and after the operation:
A well informed commercial pest control unit would actively be sharing all the necessary precautions so as to make the operation a success. They also serve as precautions for the future to help you understand how pest infestations occur.
4. Insightful Pest control:
Commercial pest control services not only troubleshoot your immediate concerns but the experience helps them to guide you against future pest invasion. By assessing your past pest control to understand various parameters like pesticide resistance or insecticide resistance they narrow down the list to the most effective measures and chemicals to be employed.
5. Judicious usage:
Commercial pest control services understand the exact amount of chemicals to be employed as individual or mixture combination to yield desirous results. DIYs might not really know how to employ those chemicals judiciously and therefore end up wasting a lot.
6. Long term effects:
The elaborate set of defined procedures performed by a genuine service might take a day or more but it will be worthwhile. Not only will the pests be gone for a long time, but it will also be mindful of the health of the individuals of that place so as to not pose any hazard.
7. Time-efficient:
DIYs might take longer than the professional help because of many sorts of interruptions but a professional service will ensure that the area is clear so as to avoid any delay and to finish the job in the stipulated time.
8. Imperative need when it comes to infestation:
You can do your little DIYs against an ant colony, a single rodent that you drive away and clear the space or do the dusting or spray of common repellants to keeps insects away but this force won’t be enough against the army of pests who wouldn’t take NO for an answer. For those circumstances call a pest control service without future ado.
9. The thoroughness of services:
A professional Pest Control Service aims at conducting thorough research upon your call so as to perform operations that yield satisfactory results. Your own DIYs will always have errors and more importantly lack professionalism.
While a professional service is a Go-to place when the need arises but what if they mess it up when they would have been our only resort. Here is the bane that accompanies the bad pest control services or pest control in general
1. Expenditure of services:
Pest control services are efficient at conducting the operations and ridding your places of the pests but the reason people opt for DIYs over the elaborate service is the cost it implies. While people may risk their safety, they like to go soft on their pockets hence tend to avoid calling the pest control services.
2. Unprofessionalism at work:
Even if you’re economically sound to afford a pest control service in a situation that reeks of infestation, the wrong choice of service will jeopardize the safety of you and people there, the effects of which may even last a lifetime.
3. Toxicity of Chemicals:
Other than the organic chemicals that some companies use, most of them employ chemicals that are harmful in many cases, deadly hence inciting caution. Many of the products are not even environmental hence causing double damage.
4. Time Reservation:
As a consumer who called upon the PCS, you must reserve a given time for the operation to be conducted and for the disinfectants to dry up. Hence all your dealings in that facility for that time must be suspended.
5. The social aspect of having an establishment sprayed:
One must be able to communicate about this disinfection being carried out to one’s neighbors and people in the vicinity and therefore must be ready to tackle their inconveniences due to it as well.
So the next time pest infestation strikes your facility, call in the Pest Control Services only when the DIY seems unmanageable to you. But if you can pull up this procedure yourself, take the necessary precautions so as to not endanger yourself and the lives of people around you.
I hope you found the article worthwhile.