Do you see crawling or other nuisance pests in your home? If you’re reading this, then the answer is most likely “yes.” Pests such as cockroaches, rats, and even bedbugs are common. These pests can embarrass you and make life hard at your own home. However, you must know that they didn’t come just like that; something went wrong for them to form colonies in your beautiful home.
Pests will come and form colonies in your home if you provide a conducive environment for them to multiply and thrive. Also, you can make common mistakes that will attract them. To know these common mistakes and how you can correct them, read on.
- Not Getting Rid of Clutter
Pests like rodents and insects like cluttered places. Even if the cutter doesn’t have food, the pests will build nests in those old boxes and cluttered areas. Rodents such as mice will always want to live in clutter. When life gets tough out in the bushes around the home, they will come to your house seeking shelter. When they find cluttered places, they will definitely create nests.
In addition to that, insects such as spiders, cockroaches, among others, will want to live in those dark, cluttered corners or rooms in your home. Therefore, if you don’t get rid of the clutter more often, you will be wondering why you have so many uninvited “guests” in your home. Therefore, get rid of clutter and your home will not be the guest house for pests anymore.
- Leaving Gaps, Cracks and Holes Uncovered
Pests will get into your home through either door, windows, or other openings. Also, they will enter your house through holes, gaps, and even cracks. Spaces under the door, holes, and cracks on the walls will provide entry for pests as well. Besides that, the cracks will provide perfect hiding places for pests like bed bugs, ants, and cockroaches.
In addition to that, broken windows can allow pests to get into your house. Do you know why these pests look for openings to enter your home? Pests look for all possible ways to enter your home for food. Others will try to get into your house for shelter. Therefore, they will find even the smallest gaps, cracks, or holes just to enter your home.
For that reason, if you don’t want this problem of pest infestation to continue stressing you, you have to seal all the cracks and holes on the walls. Also, you have to seal gaps in the door as well as windows. In addition to that, you have to repair or install new flooring for the basement and other rooms. This will ensure that pests will have no entry points as well as hiding places in your home.
- Not Deep Cleaning Your Home Regularly
You have to clean your house from top to bottom more often. Cleaning ensures that you remove dirt and destroy hiding places for pests. Cleaning the kitchen is highly essential. You should wash all the cooking appliances ranging from oven to the grilling device. This ensures that pests such as cockroaches, ants, and even rodents don’t get food, and when you deprive them of food, they will either move out or die.
Also, you have to clean your furniture, carpets and any other thing in your home. Of course, you know some pests like bed bugs, fleas, cockroaches, among others, hide in furniture. Therefore, keeping the house clean and disposing of waste in the right way can keep off pests. If you don’t keep your home clean, pests will easily hide, and that will allow them to multiply and form colonies.
Deep cleaning at times may not be enough to get rid of all the pests. You need to use pesticides to control cockroaches and other insects, creating trouble in your home. In the case of rodents such as mice, you can quickly get rid of them by using mouse traps. With the best trap on the market, you will eradicate them not only in your home but also in the compound.
- Reluctant to Repair Leaks
Many people are reluctant when it comes to repairing leaks, and you might be one of them. Leaks lead to dampness, and that not only attracts mold but also pests, such as rats, ants, termites, and even cockroaches. In addition to that, leaks can lead to stagnant water, which attracts mosquitos. Also, when the wood is affected by leaking pipes, pests that feed on wood, such as termites, will infest the area.
Another thing you need to know is that most pests can survive on water alone for months. As a result, leaking pipes will help them stay alive in your home. Therefore, the best way to keep pests that like dampness and water is to fix leaks. This will not only prevent pest infestation but also limit further damages to your structures.
- Neglecting the Roof and Compound
If you don’t clean and remove dirt, leaves, or other objects on the roof and gutters, pests will easily infest your home. During the summer, cockroaches and other insects can make gutters their home. For that reason, they will definitely come into your house for food.
In addition to that, when you don’t take care of your compound by clearing the bushes and collecting plastics around, you may not like the results. Bushes are perfect homes for rodents, and they will come to your house for food. Also, plastics and tins around your home can hold stagnant water, making the compound a breeding ground for a wide range of pests that will come to your home for shelter and food.
Therefore, you should clear the bushes around your home and keep the compound clean. Also, you should clean your roof, including the gutters, in the right way. When you do that, the pests will not find perfect places to hide and live.
Pests are not friendly living things to live with you in your own home. They will make life hard for you if you allow them to enter and form colonies in your house. Therefore, avoid the above mistakes, and your home will be free of nuisance pests ranging from cockroaches, ants to mice.
Resources: Rentokil, Wojournals, The News Unlimited