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Your Guide to Pest Control Services

Dan Bradbury | April 9, 2010

Dan Bradbury is vice president of the family-owned company Viking Pest Control, which has provided pest control for families and businesses in the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania areas for over 29 years. As leaders in pest removal, Bradbury and his team’s areas of expertise include termite removal, rodent control, commercial and residential fumigation, and bird control. In addition to being experts in the field, Viking employees are known for their ability to diagnose problems quickly, and solve them with speed and precision in both a safe and effective manner.

Why Viking Pest Control is the Right Choice

The top five reasons why the next time you discover pests in your home you should contact Viking Pest Control over other extermination companies. Not only does Viking continuously train their employees, but they also guarantee the work preformed at your home or business.

What to Expect When You Call Viking Pest Control

It’s always best to leave your pest control needs to the professionals. However, you should be able to tell the technicians when you first noticed the problem, where the infestation is happening, and what type of pest you believe it to be.

Why to Contact a Pest Control Company

When you have a problem with pests in your home, you can choose to ignore the problem, attempt to exterminate on your own, or get the job right. If you’re looking to accomplish the third option, then your only choice is to call the professionals at your local pest control company to handle the situation.

How Often Should You Inspect For Pests?

One of the best preventative measures you can take for keeping your home or business pest free is to schedule regular inspections with your local pest control company. This way, if there is a problem, it can be handled promptly, and if no pests are found, then at least you have confirmation.

How to Detect Pests Before You Buy a Home

During one of your many visits to your new home, dedicate a portion of your time to securing a complete and thorough pest inspection. Pay particular attention to signs of rodents and wood-destroying insects such as termites and carpenter ants.

Can Home Inspections Fail to Detect Pests?

While on the lookout for so many issues, it’s common for a professional house inspector to overlook a problem that could easily turn into a major hassle once you’ve settled into your new home. And, since most of an inspection is conducted visually, there may not be signs that the pests are there, even though they have inhabited the home for awhile.

Should You Buy a House With Termites?

As long as you can confirm that no damage caused by the termites has become so excessive that it has compromised the safety of your home, then there’s no need not to move forward with your purchase. There has never been a termite infestation that Viking Pest Control has come across that they couldn’t handle.

How to Keep Your Home Pest Free

In order to make sure that your home is consistently pest free, you need to remain actively aware of pests that are common in your area and signs that you may have an infestation, while also knowing how to prevent a problem down the road.

What Pests Are Common For Businesses?

Commercial and retail spaces have to remain actively aware of the possibility that they will have pest problems as well. Because most companies are not as diligent with upkeep as a homeowner would be, cockroaches, mice, and flies all tend to be more common concerns for commercial spaces in comparison to homes.

Common Spring and Summer Pests

The spring and summer months bring out pests such as beetles, hornets, and ants, which you probably haven’t seen much of during the colder portion of the year. While a pest control company can remove the bugs from your home, they can also offer expert advice for preventing the pests’ return.

Common Fall and Winter Pests

While you and your family are settling in for hibernation, some common pests such as bats, mice, squirrels, and stinkbugs are hoping to call your house their home as well.

Health Risks Associated With Pests

Always leave extermination and pest removal jobs to the professionals who understand the dangers associated with cockroaches, flies, and spiders, and how to properly extinguish them without putting anyone in harm’s way.

What Diseases Do Rodents Carry?

Besides being an overall nuisance, rodents such as mice, rats, and squirrels may be harboring deadly diseases that could infect and harm you and your family. Instead of trying to rid your home of the problem yourself, trapping and removing these pests should always be left to the professionals.

What to Do About Ant Colonies

The most important thing to remember about ant colonies is that they have multiple satellite nests. This means that even if you think you’ve found the source of your problems, the untrained eye will never be able to spot and exterminate all the actual nests on your property.

How to Handle a Bee’s Nest

Getting rid of bees or wasps is a multistep process. First, the nest itself needs to be taken care of so that any bees present in the hive currently will be terminated. The professional treatment also ensures that any bees who try to fly back into the nest later will also be exterminated.

What to Do After You Find a Mouse

While you are waiting for pest control specialists to arrive, don’t try to trap the mouse yourself. However, you should inspect all of your food sources to make sure that there are no signs of activity, and properly disinfect any areas that the mice may have scurried across.

How to Get Rid of Skunks

When skunks find a comfortable environment, such as underneath a deck in your backyard, they will call it home until they are professionally removed. Unfortunately, they won’t ever really leave on their own.

What Are Stinkbugs?

When these particular bugs are squished, threatened, or moved around in order to be removed from the home, they release an odor that is reportedly so foul and long-lasting that you may have to leave the room until you can properly air it out. When Viking or a similar company in your area is called to the job, you won’t risk upsetting the bugs and having your home smell for the next few days.

About Dan Bradbury

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Dan Bradbury is the vice president of the family owned company Viking Pest Control in Bridgewater, New Jersey, which has been providing pest control for families and businesses for over 29 years. As leaders in pest removal, Bradbury and his team’s areas of expertise include termite removal, rodent control, commercial and residential fumigation, and bird control. In addition to being experts in the field, Viking employees are known for their ability to diagnose problems quickly, and solve them with speed and precision in both a safe and effective manner.

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