Tuesday, September 18, 2012

How To Pest Proof Your Home

By David Pollard


Pest is always a nuisance especially on our homes and structures. The simplest bug control strategy is a technique of prevention. It is easier to inspect your home carefully and undertake the maintenance and slight repairs required to keep a pest from the house as compared with to eradicate a pest which has taken up in residence. There are many different ways on identifying points around your house that can provide access for unwelcomed pests like insects, animals or birds.

Indoors, make your house as unwelcoming as possible to these unsolicited visitors by cleaning household surfaces regularly, particularly hard-to-reach areas behind and under furniture and appliances. Also, do take the steps essential to control indoor moisture that may attract pests and provide a comfortable feeding and breeding ground for them. You must inspect wall, floor, ceiling and foundation surfaces for cracks and opening that would allow vermin to go into your house. When cracks are observed, right away patch it in the stucco, drywall or plaster, wood, concrete or mortar joints. Also, when you notice any wood rot, repair it immediately.

Pay particular awareness to doors and windows. The open joints of these are natural entry points of insects and tiny bodied pests. You can think about using a draft gauge to identify pest entry points in the joints of doors and windows, then weather-strip a faulty door or window to generate a pest proof seal around it. To hold pests out, wrap a broken window pane and patch a damaged screen.

Outdoors, ensure that the house walls, foundation, roofing materials and eaves are well sealed along with good repair. Always keep the lawn and garden well tended. It is best to identify the factors through which a vermin can enter your house, then do the necessary methods to pest proof them. Screen a louvered gable, foundation vent or soffit or reinstate vents if they are broken to hold pests out. Screen a deck or porch underside next to an animal pest, or screen a stack vent or exposed eave against an animal or bird pest. You may pest proof a wall opening for a pipe by patching or sealing the opening and pest proofing the pipe.

Most pest proofing tasks are with no trouble undertaken with only a few basic carpentry tools which can be found at a building supply center. However, always read the information before using a certain type of tool. Familiarize yourself with the protection advices that you can find on the manuals. If you doubt your capacity to successfully complete a pest proofing task then don't hesitate to talk to a building or pest control professional. They may really assist you especially if you're a beginner.




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