Pest Control Exterior Perimeter

Baby, Its Cold Outside!

So you are decorating for the holiday season and you keep noticing all the nests that have accumulated over the warmer months. Now is the time! Get out that pressure washer, or extension pole, or broom stick. Knock down those wasp nests after a quick soaking with a good foaming wasp and hornet spray.

Mix up a spray bottle with 10% Dish Soap and 90% Water and saturate those spider webs and get those egg sacks before they become next spring’s infestation. Scrape them out with your tool of choice while their occupants are at their least mobile.

The grass is dying back. Check out those termite bait stations for activity. Scrape away the mulch and plant debris from the house perimeter. Consider pouring a gravel barrier along the foundation perimeter to make it harder for the weeds to grow up against the house and providing safe cover for insect intrusion. Inspect for mud tunnels from ants and termites. Look for those holes from carpenter bees.

How about that water meter and shut off? Open up the valve boxes and evict any unwanted pests. Tare out those roots and unbury the valve. Make sure you can get to that shut off and it is functional before you have an emergency need for it later in the winter!

Accessible Valve Box

Not so much

Fill in those masonry cracks, parge the brick mortar, caulk around the window frames. Tape a heavy screw driver to a broom handle and probe the soffit and facia for rotting or damaged wood. Get it fixed now while the leaves are gone, and the sun isn’t stealing your drive to git’r done. The simple fact is that if you can see a hole or crack. Something is using it for a home or access point into your home. Address it now while the landscaping is the least intrusive to completing repairs.

By the way… The leaves are on the ground. Have you checked your gutters lately?