MAINTAIN
Timing:
Your Maintain treatment occurs one time per year on your Tri-annual schedule when the schedule lands on a colder winter month.
Process:
Our Service Pros will apply the Avayda process steps 1-5 with a variation on steps 3 and 4 when the weather is in freezing temperatures. Our Service Pros focus will be on handling any interior rodent activity you may be experiencing, as well as exterior bait station monitoring. There will be a focus on light exclusion work to ensure that gaps, cracks, and crevices leading into your home are sealed and treated.
The Avayda Process will identify any new key recommendations as well as follow up with previous recommendations that will help us work in tandem with you as a team to limit the pest pressure experienced on your property.
Why:
Contrary to popular belief, pests do not disappear in the winter. You may not see them out foraging for food or establishing living arrangements, but they are still very much alive and present on your property. Cold winter weather does not affect wall dwelling pests like carpenter ants, cockroaches, and earwigs. The carpenter ant will destroy wood internally all winter long as they bud and continue to excavate galleries for their nesting areas. The cockroach is one of the planets most resilient species, they hide during the day behind kitchen units and emerge at night feeding on anything left in the sink and countertops.
Attics provide winter shelter for spiders. They lay their eggs in a silk sac in the fall, hidden in a web in undisturbed locations. Attics are the perfect harbourage location for roof rats, the insulation provides excellent nesting during winter months. They enter through damaged eaves and vent openings.
During the winter, mice and Norway rats move closer to the foundation of structures looking for shelter, food, and water. They do not hibernate in the winter. They will enter through any gaps, cracks, and crevices no wider than a dime’s width. Winter rodent control is extremely important due to how quickly these species breed.
Your Maintain treatment on a cold winter month is critical in successfully limiting pest pressure you experience in your home year-round.
Expectations:
We focus on rodent control through light exclusion work and bait station monitoring, crack, and crevice treatments as well as any interior concerns you may have.