Spraying to Keep Pests Outdoors

Most of the time, pest control services only need to spray in a few places that keep pests from crossing into your house. They will effectively draw a barrier around the outside edges that pests cannot cross, and a few places designed to kill any pests that slip through.

Entrances

Pest control starts by spraying across entrances at doors and windows. This discourages pests from trying to cross inside your house over the thresholds and frames.

Baseboards

Indoors, pest control will spray along your baseboards. Any pests that get inside will try to scurry along the walls, so spraying baseboards will discourage them before they can find a new lair after coming inside.

Cracks and Crevices

Any cracks or crevices where pests can get in from outside, pest control will spray to keep pests from crossing through. Your apartment can also endeavor to fix these cracks if they are a maintenance concern to seal the pests out for good.

Treating an Existing Indoor Pest Problem

In the few cases where pests are already indoors (example: Sugar ants near your faucets), pest control may spot-treat certain trouble areas.

Pantries

Pantries attract pests because it is a food store that often has crumbs or accessible dry goods in unsealed containers. Pest control will spray the baseboards and cabinets of your pantry if you have noticed a pest problem. In some cases, they will lay traps instead as an even safer way to minimize pests in your food prep area.

Pipes and Damp Spaces

Pests also come indoors for water, and gaps around pipes can allow just enough space for access. Spraying under your sinks, behind your toilet, and anywhere pipes pass through the wall can reduce pests seeking water from your faucets and fixtures.

Rely On Your Apartments for Property Pest Control

Landscaping and outdoor pets control also plays a big role in keeping pests on the outside of a building. Fortunately, apartment residents don't have to worry about that. Your apartment community will take care of outdoor treatment, just as they take care of roofing and siding without bothering residents. The apartment manager will ensure that building foundations, attics, basements, crawl-spaces, and the surrounding landscaping are all properly treated to minimize the risk of pests even reaching your doors or windows in the first place.

Proper treatment of the outside of a building will drastically increase the level of protection against pests for the residents. An entire apartment complex can be treated for pests through a combination of routine preventative treatments and design of the shared green spaces.

How to Prepare for Apartment Pest Control

If you have an apartment pest control service scheduled, getting ready is easy to do. In fact, you don't have to do anything at all, but to get the best results from the service and to make life easier for your pest control team, just a few simple steps will improve the day.

Tidy Up

Pick up clutter and simplify each room. Make sure that your pest control service team has access to the doors and windows that need to be treated. This will keep your stuff tidied away from the spray and make it easier for pest control to navigate.

Pull Furniture Away from Baseboards

For comprehensive baseboard treating, pull furniture about a foot away from the wall so that it's easy to get the baseboards all the way around. However, if moving furniture is not easy for you, skip this step. Pest control teams are very professional and know how to spray under furniture or gently move anything that needs to be temporarily displaced for comprehensive treatment.

Spend an Hour in the Park

Modern pest control spray is non-toxic to humans and pets. But if you want time for the spray to dry and the air to clear, plan an hour or two at the park or go for a swim in the apartment pool while the pest treatment settles. Just catching a meal away from home should do the trick. Then, you can come back and push all your furniture back toward the walls, confident that your apartment is safe from pests.