The following is the customer’s responsibility and must be done before technician arrives. All may not apply to your specific situation. If you have any questions please just let us know.
Kitchen Areas
Remove everything from cabinets and drawers; place into plastic bags. Remove dishes.
Place contents of cabinets and drawers (but not the drawers themselves) in the center of the living room or dining room floor.
Discard any food that is opened.
Nothing should be on the countertop or on top of the refrigerator.
Clean stove tops. (lift and clean undersides of top)
Pull out refrigerator and clean back, bottom and floors.
Wipe down cupboard shelves; counter tops, etc. before treatment.
Unload the dishwasher.
Bathrooms
- Repeat the same procedure as “Kitchen Areas” in the bathrooms.
- Starting with the medicine cabinet, empty it and place the contents with the food and the dishes. Then empty the cabinet or vanity below the sink as well as the cabinets or pantries that would house towels, etc. Place these contents on the living room floor also; place into plastic bags.
Pets
Do not leave out any food, pet bowls or pet food.
Make arrangements for you and your pets to leave the premise for 3 hours after the treatment.
Special instructions apply to birds. All birds must be out for 8 hours.
Fish tanks must be covered with plastic, then tape plastic tightly around the sides of the tank.
General
Take a clean sheet or blanket and cover all the items that have been removed from the kitchens and baths.
Place all children’s toys in plastic bags and put in center of room.
Clear baseboards throughout the house. A baseboard application will be performed first, and then a fan spray of all the bases of the cabinets.
Clean and vacuum all areas as you remove the items, please do so prior to our treatment, not after.
Cleaning them afterwards will dilute the residual, causing the treatment effectiveness to be reduced.
Be sure all ceiling fans, air conditioners or exhaust fans are off.
If infestations are seen in bedroom, empty chest of drawers, dresser drawers, and closet shelves.-Take all garbage outdoors away from the structure.
After Treatment
Upon return, you may find dead roaches these can just be vacuumed up.
Vacuum again before putting items back in cabinets and storage bins. Wipe down tables and table tops. - Insects carnivorous and will eat other dead roaches, so it is important to clean up any dead insects you see and throw them away in outside trash.
You may put contents back without fear of contamination.
Allow 2 full weeks for complete control. What we spray does not penetrate egg shells, but is a residual which will exterminate the insect young after they hatch from the eggs. Generally it will take 10 days.
Never treat a pest control issue with any of your own products. Additional products applied can be unsafe and will only make pest problems worse. If additional products are applied outside of those applied by expert pest control any warranties offered will be void.