If you think that having your home or business sprayed for bugs just once will do the trick, you’re barking up the wrong tree. Fred Willey is owner and president of Invader Pest Management, based in Glendale, Arizona, and talks here about why regular pest maintenance programs are so important. It doesn’t matter whether you want the pests to disappear from your home or from a large commercial building, you also need to make sure that they never come back.
Pest control maintenance plans are extremely important, so recommend them to our customers. We are flexible and we want to do only the best for our clients. That’s why we recommend the Healthy Home CARE Pest Prevention program. It means that we are able to come to your home six times year, so it is a lot easier to schedule than just a one-off. And we have a 60-day guarantee, which means that if any bugs come back, we also return at no charge.
The importance of this program is clear: It allows us to not only get the job done, but also to design the program around the customers’ needs. In the old days, everyone wanted their property to be sprayed every single month, so we’d go and spray every single month. But in today’s world, most households are double-income, which means it can be hard to find a time during the working day when someone will be home. It can become exceedingly difficult to schedule, and it becomes an inconvenience, just with the timing issue.
Long-Lasting Maintenance
Our maintenance programs have also been developed so that they will last the time they are supposed to. We even do quarterly maintenance, if needed, which is something depends on where you are living, what type of property you have, and other factors. We have to do a program where the customer is sure that it will work for him.
I like maintenance programs also because too many people just sit back and think, “Go call the bug man; he’ll come out and spray one time and it will go away.” There is little we can take care of in a one-time treatment. Let’s take ticks, for example. They are going to lay eggs, which will hatch in 14 days. I will kill live ticks today, but in 14 days, new ones will have hatched. That’s why you need regular pest maintenance programs that work around the breeding cycles and habits of whatever pest is the problem.
For commercial pest control, maintenance is also extremely important. Most building owners have property management companies that run their buildings for them, and having a pest control company come in on a regular basis is just one service they provide. They do not want tenants or customers upset because of bug or rodent problems, so most commercial buildings have regular pest control.
When it is done right, most commercial buildings should have little problems with bugs or rodents. Our services are largely behind the scenes, and most people do not know we have been there, in most cases. But we nonetheless get the job done, and keep on coming back until the pests are gone.
