14/12/2018
As our heart goes out to the people in Malawi, parts of Areas, where heavy rains have wreaked havoc, risks and need for precautions loom large. The heavy rain has flooded streets, and marooned localities, restricting you to the confines of your home, but umbrella, raincoats and staying inside with a warm cup of coffee or tea is not all of the precaution necessary. While we all enjoy rains after the hot and humid summers Experienced put us in the crosshairs with torrential downpour, and sometimes, problems that we forget to anticipate each time- the issue of household pests.
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Your homes are safe haven for you and your loved ones, but also serve as the perfect refuge for pests, such as mosquitos and cockroaches. It is important to prepare yourself to keep your home free of these pests, and the diseases they carry. With waterlogged streets becoming an opportunity for deadly diseases to make the rounds, infectious diseases spread by these pests have received an open invitation. Communicable diseases such as Malaria, Chikungunya and Dengue become realistic health hazards.
Having said that, let’s face it, it is next to impossible to keep pests completely out of your home. No matter what you do, there will always be some insects that will find a way into your house. But you can make life difficult for them! Put a little time in the below mentioned homes maintenance and housekeeping chores, and the chances of a major insect infestation can be greatly lessened.
When trying to pest proof your home, you need to do two elementary things: stop insects and spiders from getting inside, and do away with pest habitat in your house. It advises that your main motive should be to keep as many pests at bay as possible, and to make your house inhospitable to the few that find their way in.
Install screens on all doors and windows and any other orifices and maintain them.
If you don’t have screen doors on your home it is high time, you have to install them now. Fix or improve any torn or broken window screens. Use fine mesh screening to prevent all but the tiniest insects from entering your home.
Barricade around all doors.
If air and light can pass through, bugs can get in. Set up tight-fitting entrances and door sweeps to the base of exterior doors. Use door seals to fill the gap around the sides and top of each door, too.
Shut off openings in your home’s base, exterior walls, and fascia boards.
Any opening in the exterior walls of your home is a welcome sign to insects. Grab a tube of caulk and inspect your home from the highest point to the lowest part of your house. Shut off any cracks you find.
Shut off around utility lines and appliance vents.
All kinds of insects enter your home through tiny gaps around your dryer vent, gas line, or even telephone line. Make sure to caulk crevices on the exterior of your home.
Put up critter-proof mesh on vents in attics and crawl spaces.
Mice, Squirrels, Raccoons and sometimes even birds may make find thriving places in crawl spaces and attics if you don’t set up barricades keep them out. Sometimes these animals carry mites, fleas, or other pests that will then infest your home and then the diseases would follow.
Do away with clutter.
A cluttered home is a bug’s paradise, because they need good hiding places. Throw away boxes and newspapers you do not need. Keep laundry in clothes hampers. Make sure to keep floor clear of belongings and put things away after you use them.
Rinse your cans thoroughly.
Your recycling can is a buffet for bugs. Soda cans, beer bottles, and pet food cans will all attract insects if they aren’t rinsed out thoroughly.
In case you need to deal with a serious flock of pests in your home, it is always advisable to resort to professional pest control services. and we are ready to do what we know best wishing good luck
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