Living with rodents in your environment is not pleasant. In addition to being unpleasant, this vermin is harmful to your health. Having understood it, you proceeded to exterminate them in your home. However, is extermination after a first rodent infestation a barrier to further intrusions? Unfortunately not! It is not systematically a brake on a new infiltration of these intruders. If your home continues to be a prone place for infestation, rodents may return. So you need to take proper precautions.
Here are some tips to follow to prevent new rodent infestations after extermination.
Eliminate all rodent attractions in your home
Extermination is by far a crucial phase in the process of deratization of your home. In other words, it alone is not enough! Whether you have carried out an extermination by yourself or by the care of a professional, rodents can always come. This state of affairs is possible when the sources of the presence of vermin in your home still exist.
Indeed, most of the time, rats and mice are embedded in your home in search of food. So you need to eliminate everything that attracts intruders to your home. Thus, your kitchen, dining room, garbage cans and all spaces that host food must be regularly cleaned and protected. A little mess in these places makes your hospital premises to rodents.
Properly decontaminate your home
Although essential and decisive, extermination is only one phase of the complete deratization of your home. It is undoubtedly necessary after this operation to carry out a complete decontamination of your home.
In reality, rodents always leave traces of their passage in the places they frequent. It can be the smells, droppings of mice, traces of their greasy coats or other elements that are specific to them and characterize them. Like a system of attraction, smells or other traces left by these critters in your home can attract new intrusions. So you need to disinfect your home in order to erase all these traces and prevent a new infestation. For decontamination, be sure to use only appropriate products that do not pose a danger to you or the environment. If you have any doubts about this, the professionals of Smoke Test are at your disposal.
Caulk all vermin entrances in your home
The food or comfort of your interior is not enough for there to be an intrusion of rodents. Indeed, pests only succeed in their entry if there are openings in your home. The paths that are often exploited by these critters include:
- Plumbing;
- The French drain;
- The solage;
- The sewers…
A break or breach in your piping, drainage system or sewers is an opening to new infiltration of wild animals. That is why after the extermination process, you undoubtedly need to close all the entrances of rodents. To do this, a caulking process is necessary for you. More than a simple closure, anti-vermin caulking is the best way to avoid further intrusions by harmful rodents.
Call on an extermination professional
Ending a rodent infestation permanently requires the intervention of a qualified professional. In Canada, there are many companies specializing in the extermination of rodents. However, only a few offer a complete extermination and deratization service.
Opt for a complete extermination service
A complete extermination service is what it takes to avoid further animal infiltrations into your premises. As you will have noticed, to finish with the infiltration of animals, three processes must be implemented. These are:
- detection and caulking of openings;
- extermination of vermin with appropriate traps and products;
- disinfection or decontamination of the premises.
You must therefore use a company that is not limited to exterminating the wild animals present in your home. It must be able to implement all the techniques and processes essential to an impossible infiltration of new vermin into your home.
Opt for the services of the company Test de Fumée Delta
Delta Smoke Test is a company specializing in smoke testing operations. It is based in Montreal and operates on the South Shore and North Shore of the region. The company offers a complete service favorable to a complete deratization of your apartments.
Smoke test to detect openings
The smoke test is a very practical technique implemented for the detection of passages and openings of unwanted animals in your premises. It is performed with harmless smoke that is injected into your pipes, drains and sewer to detect all inputs from vermin. The smoke escapes through all the openings encountered. It is the latter that facilitate the infiltration of rodents.
Caulking of the entrances
After the detection of the vermin entrances, the professionals of Delta Smoke Test proceeds to the clogging of the openings. Thus, pipe breaks, defective pipes and breaches in sewers and exhaust ducts are identified and closed. Delta Smoke Test is not limited to a simple caulking of openings. The company’s expert exterminators implement adequate anti-vermin caulking to prevent rodents from re-using the openings. Such an operation is a physical barrier and very resistant against rodents.
Complete extermination by decontamination
Thanks to a partnership with a company specialized in pest management,Smoke Test guarantees complete decontamination of your premises. Decontamination is carried out with appropriate products that are not harmful to your health such as some pesticides. In addition, practical recommendations are made to you by the company’s professionals to avoid new rodent infestations.
The company guarantees its work for 25 years.
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