How Often Should My Birmingham Alabama Home Be Treated For Pests?

Today, we wanted to address a question that we get quite frequently from from customers and non customers alike. And that is, How often should I have my house or business treated for pass? And I think that’s a very good question. And the answer is not just one cut and dry, simple answer. It depends on many different factors. And we’ll talk about a few of those here in the next couple of minutes. But a lot of people wonder that how often should I get my house treated for bugs? How often should I get my business treated for bugs. And so let’s talk about a couple of the factors of that. So one of those factors could be your location. And what I mean by that is your location in the United States, so of course, we are here in Alabama, we have very high temperatures, we have very high humidity, lots of sunlight. And so our pest pressure on our homes, pest pressure on our businesses, could be a lot higher than someone who lives further north than where we live here in Alabama. So that definitely is something to take into account. Another thing to think about is the presence of food sources for pests. And that doesn’t even just talk about, you know, your kitchen and crumbs and things like that. I mean, that could be food sources from crops around your house. Foods sources from decaying vegetation, underneath your your bedding, and your flower beds, underneath pine straw and mulch, you know, things that are food sources that attract these pests to your house. And of course, another thing and a lot of people probably don’t consider this. And a lot of people would probably be very surprised that this is even a factor, but an individual’s personal tolerance for bugs. And we see that a lot with our company. We have customers who don’t mind seeing an occasional cockroach, for example in their home. Or we have people who flip out over one, because they just don’t want to see any any cockroaches. And that’s totally understandable. So everyone’s tolerance for bugs is completely different. And so how often do you get your house treated definitely depends on your tolerance level too. But some benefits of regular pest control, whether that’s on a monthly schedule, or BI monthly schedule, or even our typical quarterly schedule, is pest control, you know, it helps prevent things like diseases from spreading. If you have bugs that crawl on the floor, then they crawl on your countertops or they get into your food sources, then this can definitely be an issue that can cause sickness for you and your family members or for your customers in your business. They also, having regular pest control can protect your property from damage. There are different paths that can damage your property such as if you don’t get regular termite protection on your home or business, then you can leave yourself open for a very significant amount of property damage due to them consuming wood product, you know, in structural areas of your home and your crawlspace and your walls. And the other another good reason to have ongoing pest control services is the reduction of a risk of an allergic reaction. So we can talk again about you know, the prevention of spreading diseases. But you know, some folks are actually hypersensitive to cockroaches or hypersensitive to mice and rats are hypersensitive to a bite from an ant or a sting from a mosquito. So, you know, if you’ve got a family member, if you’ve got customers, if you’re a residential or commercial client, and you’ve got people who are hypersensitive to these pests that we treat for then you may be on a increased schedule versus someone who gets a quarterly service. So of course, you know there are different types of treatments from monthly to bi monthly to quarterly. You know, some yearly treatments when you get into the termite aspect of treatment. But you know, you’re going to ask yourself what’s right for you. And I hope that I gave you some insights today on ways to choose what’s right for your home, or ways to choose