Tips On Preparing Your Building For Necessary Fumigation

Quite often fumigation, thereafter strict pest control, is the only option for eliminating unwanted pests in buildings such as homes. Termites can be dangerous and threaten the actual structure of buildings especially wooden ones.

Pest control specialists move into buildings forming almost tent like structures with plastic canvases and fumigate. Fumigation has become an environmental science that encases environmental protection for areas not involved.

• Is it safe.

When undertaken by professional pest control specialists, the preparations and cautionary measures taken, it is quite safe. During the process, all persons, animals and selected plants as well as foods are to be removed totally. There are other measures taken as well.

After a certain time period the tenting is removed, safety tests are performed.

• How is it done.

Once secured and tented, the fumigation begins with the release of pesticide or insecticide gases as per size of building and degree of infestation. Another important point is the outside temperature, this factors greatly in the process. Time for effectiveness can be between 24 to 72 hours. Rain can play havoc.

• How to prepare.

Preparation can take several days and a plan should be in place. Do not wait till the last minute. Your pest management team leader should provide you with a check list of preparation.

• Alternative energy supplies.

If you have gas supplied directly to your building, you must have it shut off for the period. If needs be notify the supplier for it to be done in the morning of the fumigation.

• Living things.

Anything that has life to it such as all humans, dogs, cats must be removed from the premises. House plants may be moved to a safe shady area at the extremities of the property for the period concerned.

• Food and medications.

All consumables must be removed from the premises.

• Garden.

Building hugging shrubbery must be trimmed back.

• Plastic wrapped items.

Important that these are removed preventing gas retention.

It doesn’t sound nice but exterminators perform necessary work when it comes down to rodent, flea, fly and even bird control.