Tips To Keep Pests Out of Your House.

Pests can be so destructive and should not be allowed to dominate a home. Here are some effective tips to keep cockroaches, mice, and bedbugs among other pests far away from your home.

Prevention
All efforts should be made towards preventing pests from gaining access to your home. To achieve this, you need to:
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• Wash all clothing upon getting home from sleepovers. Not allowing them to come in contact with your household will prevent the transmission of pests like bedbugs to your home.
• Always keep your home in pristine condition by cleaning up your rooms, furniture, and warehouses. Arrange your stacks of paper and cardboard boxes regularly to avoid creating a hideout for pests. Steam cleaning your bedding, carpets, and curtains help in eliminating bedbugs from your home. 

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• Ensure your kitchen is cleaned immediately after use; pests get attracted to leftovers and you must wash your dirty dishes following use. Mop spilled foods or drinks immediately with the use of soap and water. All food items must be enclosed in plastic containers because rodents will continue to “check back” at the place even in the absence of food.
• Seal all cracks and holes in your house since they can serve as entry points for pests, you should also check your windows and doors for gaps and screen them up, silicon caulking works great as sealing agent.
• Store your firewood properly on a rack above ground level and at some distance away from your house to prevent mice and ants from getting direct access to your house through the wood.
• Secure your chimney outlet and irregularly used entrances; you won’t want to overlook the potential hideout for pests.
• Keep your home as dry as possible with a dehydrator and ensure a lot of air is in circulation using fans. Don’t hesitate to repair any leaky pipe; almost all pests need moisture and dampness to thrive.
• Plant peppermint trees to surrounds your house, mites and roaches repelled by the smell of it.

Pest Control
It is essential to know the exact pest problem you are facing before you take measures to control household pests, some products available in stores work selectively on pests.

• The use of a non-toxic substance like castle soap has been proven to successfully control many pests over the years, including ants. Cockroaches don’t like red pepper and mint oil thus, a little spray of pepper solution in your kitchen can scare them away. Another non-toxic way to eliminate ants and cockroaches is through the use of boric acid.
• Lay traps to get rid of rodents and mice using peanut butter or chocolate as bait. Adding cockroach poison to food can serve as bait for them to feed on and also carry it to their nest to help kill the rest of the nest. An adhesive trap can also be fixed in the area of concern to detain cockroaches and mice making them unable to get out of the trap.
• Place bedbug interceptors at the base of your furniture to catch them as they crawl on while you frequently check and destroy the trapped pest.
• You should enlist the help of a professional pest exterminator in any extreme cases of infestation, so that they may treat your house for bedbugs, cockroaches, and other pests. They have experience with a wide range of products and techniques for destroying pests of different species with specialized  knowledge about the correct way to use each of the products. It is advisable to hire a professional pest exterminator since they will continue to monitor your household until it is cleared of pests and the problem has been resolved.