A garage is an awesome feature on any home but may serve as a haven for cold, hungry pests seeking shelter from the outdoors. Clean up the garage on your home to stop pest squatting and its potential risks.
Common Pests Found in the Garage
Mice, spiders, cockroaches, termites, beetles, crickets, ants, and silverfish are among the types of pests that can take up home in your garage. Each pest presents potentially damaging habits that can ruin your belongings as well as the structure of the home.
Keep Pests Away: How to Clean Your Garage
Preventing pests is much easier than treating an infestation, although the well-trained exterminators at Southern Pride Pest Control are ready to remedy even the most severe infestations.
Prevent pests from squatting in your garage by using the following cleaning tips year-round:
- Inspect the garage for signs of a pest infestation. Purchase pesticides at the local home improvement store if the problem is still young. Otherwise, you will need professional extermination to rectify the problem.
- Install weatherstripping to seal gaps at the bottom of the garage door to prevent pests from having a point of entry into the garage.
- Declutter the garage. Anything worth having is worth getting a designated ‘home,’ even small screws.
- Get rid of cardboard. Termites and cockroaches especially love the material and mice can use it as nesting. Big problems!
- Sweep away spider webs. Unless it is Halloween and you want the added effect for spooks, spider webs serve no purpose in the garage.
- Repair any holes, cracks, or gaps in doors, baseboards, or floors that can serve as points of entry for many different pests.
Southern Pride Pest Control is a full-service pest control company headquartered in Muscle Shoals, AL. SPPC specializes in pest control and prevention services, including termite control, rodent control, bed bug control, ant control, and mosquito control, and can even help with moisture control around your residence or commercial property. Established in 2010, Southern Pride Pest Control is a reliable source of quality pest-management solutions delivered by a team you can trust.
Call us today for any of your pest control needs.
