What Is Pest Exclusion?
Pest exclusion is a type of pest control that is a preventative process, focusing on finding interior and exterior entry points within a residence or business and sealing them before pests can invade your home or commercial building. This method of pest management reduces the chance that pests will enter your space in the future. Basically, pest exclusion is creating barriers to keep those pests out of your home or business before they can even get in!
Pest exclusion involves many steps and could take anywhere from a couple hours to a few days to complete. It focuses on a space’s interior and exterior to prevent pest entry and restrict pest movement within the space.
What Pests Does Pest Exclusion Work Best for?
Pest exclusion is commonly used to prevent all types of animals from entering and traveling within a house or building. This includes rodents such as mice and rats, and insects such as roaches, ants, flies, and mosquitos. Exclusion looks different for these different pests. For example, it can focus on vents to keep out the rats, and cracks and insulation to seal off entry points for insects. Contact Sentry Pest Control for a free pest exclusion consultation!
Benefits of Pest Exclusion as Preventative Pest Control
When it comes to pest control, prevention is your best defense. Even if you think your home or business is pest-proof, there may be dozens of imperceptible cracks, gaps and holes both inside and outside that pests can enter and nest. By the time you begin to notice pests in your kitchen or office, there is a good chance they had been living there by your side for weeks or even months. Preventative pest control helps you detect potential pest problems and seal your home off from tiny intruders before you have to invest in reactive pest control.
An additional benefit of employing pest exclusion is its emphasis on environmental control tactics. This means that pest exclusion is both a safe and efficient management option.
Steps for Successful Pest Exclusion
Inspection: Pests enter buildings in search of the three main ingredients for survival: food, water, and shelter. Pest exclusion will look for areas where those pests may easily find these items as the first step to closing their points of entry.
Identification: Your pest control services will thoroughly inspect your building’s structure as the next step. Areas that allow pests to access your facility may get overlooked. Besides windows and doors, pests control services will check your vents, pipes and cracks.
Maintenance: After identifying places that are most vulnerable to pest infiltration, your pest technician will establish clear maintenance protocols. Some of these can be:
Repairing or replacing all torn or missing window and door screens.
Replacing old or missing weather stripping and door sweeps.
Caulking cracks, crevices, or gaps in your structure.
Repairing or replacing broken or missing vent covers.
Placing bait stations around the exterior of the building.
Pest Exclusion Tools
The number one goal of pest exclusion is to keep those pests outside of your home or business! With a variety of products out there, pest management can help select the most effective products for your situation. Here are a few your pest management provider may use or suggest you put into place:
Door Sweeps: Designed to help create an impenetrable barrier against pests like rats and cockroaches, door sweeps close gaps under doors with thousands of dense nylon bristles.
Air Curtains: Air curtains are an effective pest exclusion method for helping keep flying insects away from your facility. These curtains are mounted in doorways and windows and use high-speed fans to create a wall of air that flying insects have difficulty crossing.
Water-Resistant Sealant: Seal cracks and crevices with weather-resistant caulking to close any gaps pests might use to sneak into your buildings.
Bait Stations/Traps: Rodent bait stations are a common technique for keeping rats and mice away. Bait must be handled safely, and Sentry offers tamper-proof rodent bait stations that protect the bait from accidental exposure to non-target animals or people.
Insect Light Traps (ILTs), otherwise known as fly lights, are devices that use ultraviolet lights to attract flying pests to a non-toxic sticky board inside a confined trap unit.
Exclude Your Intruders!
If you own a home or business and want to take proactive action to pest-prevent your space, it’s time to consider the benefits of pest exclusion. Contact Sentry Pest Control to learn about our pest exclusion and other pest management expertise! Why not prevent a pest problem before it has a chance to disrupt your life?
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