Home pest control

As a homeowner you want to feel that your house is always in the absolute best condition it can be in, which is precisely why you don’t want to discover there are pests running wild in your well-kept, beautiful home. Not only is a pest infestation unsettling and upsetting but it can also lead to structural problems with the property, financially costly repairs, and can also pose potential health and safety risks to anyone in the vicinity.

The signs of pests can sometimes be easy to spot and may therefore lead to you discovering any pests lurking in the shadows early on. These can include droppings found in areas throughout the property, damage to things that wouldn’t have become damaged otherwise, scratching noises found in cavity walls or attic spaces or even physical sightings of the pests or their nesting materials.

However, seeing as the pests will have found a way into the premises undetected, it stands to reason that it would be easy to overlook any possible signs of a pest problem, or not even recognise them as that anyway. For anyone already inundated with pests or unsure as to whether they have become plagued with them, we can help and have the services ready and waiting to put this right for you.

The short term issues if your home is infested with pests

One of the biggest short term issues that pests in your home will bring is the level of frustration felt by them being there. A pest infestation is an inconvenience on everyday life, they get in the way causing damage and upset, can be distracting and disruptive, and will leave mess everywhere that they visit too. Once they are gone then they are gone, but for the time in which you have to put up with them until they are gone, it can be very miserable and annoying.

That is why we are always as speedy as possible without compromising on the quality of the solutions for removing pest infestations that we provide.
Another short-term issue is that if the pests manage to find your food, and it is accessible to them, then they won’t hesitate to tuck in and go to town on your and your family’s food. This can render it inedible and leave you having to replace it or having to splash out on takeaways as a result.

The long term issues if your home is infested with pests

The long term issues of a pest infestation carry significantly more gravity than the short-term issues and will impact you in far greater ways. By becoming overrun with pests it allows them access to hinder and disrupt many different aspects of your home life and require you to adjust to this inconvenient occurrence. Pests such as mice and rats have very strong teeth and claws and are extremely resourceful at being able to access hard to reach and secluded areas of a property. Their strong teeth allow them to chew through a vast array of different materials, either for consumption as a food source or in order to enter into new areas.

Due to this, they can cause structural damage but may also damage things such as electrical wiring or plumbing. If this were to happen then not only would you be requiring home pest control but you would also need to call in costly plumbers or electricians as well. Whilst this is annoying but can be repaired, the safety aspect of rodents or other pests deteriorating the parts of the property responsible for keeping it standing, it could then lead to physical damage to your health or anyone in the property caused by unknown devastation.

Dealing with Home Pest Control yourself

It is very important to realise that although the handling of home pest control or home pest removal may seem manageable at face value, it is very rare that they ever are. There will always be certain elements of the tasks required in order to get them gone that someone without an in-depth knowledge of the pests found in the UK would possibly not consider. As pests come in all shapes and sizes, it allows them to cause issues in areas of the premises that is hard to access. This is how we end up conducting our more popular services including flea treatment, wasp nest removal and bedbug removal services.

Therefore, attempts that are made to gain these areas, without having even attempted to remove the pests, could result in substantial physical injury. A good example of this is birds nesting in guttering, which seems as though all it requires is to go up a ladder, encourage them to leave and then remove the nesting materials. However, if you for any reason were to slip once up on the ladder then you could fall to the ground and hurt you or someone else that is nearby. Otherwise, other tasks such as our anti-viral cleaning or drain camera surveys that could also result in substantial injury if they are not carried out correctly. It is then that you find yourself in a situation where you still have pests that will only continue to grow in number, but now you have some painful and possibly life-changing injuries too!