Calling Cards for Pests in Your Home

While certain pests will always find their way into your home occasionally, such as flies and ants, there are some ways you can prevent pest issues and infestations. By knowing some of the things that pests are attracted to, you can decrease your chance of dealing with a pest infestation in your home. Here are some of the things you can do to keep pests at bay.

Keep the Kitchen Clean

If a pest ventures in your home or is brought in on an item, you can decrease the chance of them feeling at home. If you provide the pests with an endless supply of food, the pests will probably stay long enough to breed, causing an infestation.

Some pests, such as ants, will even lead their friends into your home. Ants do this by leaving a scent trail to the food they find for the others to follow.

Pests don't need a lot of food to be happy in your home. Therefore, you may see a trail of ants leading to what you would consider a small crumb and a large pile of ants on the crumb. This is the very concerning part.

You must be diligent when it comes to cleaning your kitchen. Not only do the surface areas you see need to be cleaned regularly, but so do the hidden areas crumbs can end up, such as next to the refrigerator and even in your cupboards.

Keep the Carpet Vacuumed

If you don't eat in certain areas of your home, you may let the vacuuming slide until you see the time has come to vacuum the carpet. However, food foraging pests aren't the only ones you need to protect your home from. You also need to be concerned about pests such as fleas, ticks, and even bed bugs, which can be carried right into your home.

Regular cleaning of all your floors should take place to ensure you remove anything tempting as well as removing any pests and eggs that may be hidden in the fibers of your carpeting and rugs. You should also empty your vacuum bag or canister after each vacuum session to ensure pests don't crawl back out of the vacuum to reclaim their tenancy in your home.

Keep the Bathrooms Clean

The bathroom can provide an environment that pests like due to some of the hidden areas and moisture bathrooms tend to offer. The pests that are known to prefer bathrooms can be the ones many people fear, such as silverfish, spiders, scorpions, and centipedes.

Along with repairing leaks and drying up water, cleaning the bathrooms regularly can also help to prevent these pests from finding refuge in your bathrooms. Cleaning the bathroom should include getting those often-neglected areas, such as the cupboard under the sink, the interior of the cabinets, behind the toilet, and underneath everything in the bathroom.

Keep the Home Dusted

When you dust your home, not only are you removing allergens and making your home look nicer, but you are also moving things around, which can help keep some pests away. For example, most spiders like to build their webs in areas where things don't get disturbed often.

When you are dusting all your shelves, areas behind electronics, and other spots that tend to be forgotten, you are decreasing the likeliness of spiders feeling at home in your home.

Contact NorthStar Cleaning & Property Services for Help

If you want to know your home is properly cleaned so you can decrease your chance of dealing with a pest infestation, contact us for help. We will be happy to take care of your housecleaning and property services needs.