Pest control tips & news
Prevention, good habits and expert insights to keep your spaces healthy: rats, mice, bed bugs, cockroaches, wasps and hornets.
Loading Bay and Service Lift: The Rat Gateway
In mixed-use buildings across the Paris region, the loading bay and the service lift form an open corridor between the street and the upper floors. Here is how to survey the logistics zone, which seals survive the daily traffic of roll cages, and how costs are split between retailer, landlord and the co-ownership.
Rats on Flat Roofs: The Entry Point From Above
We always look for rodents in the basement. Yet in the Paris region, some upper-floor infestations start on the roof: the waterproofing build-up, parapet upstands, ventilation outlets and rainwater downpipes. How to diagnose this high route, close it for good, and charge the cost to the right line of expenses.
Recycling Bins in Apartment Buildings
Since separate food-waste collection became mandatory, many Paris-region buildings have added bins without rethinking the waste room or the put-out times. The result: a permanent pantry for brown rats, a few metres from the lobbies. Here is how to audit your recycling setup, what to correct, and how to allocate the cost.
Rats Coming Up the Toilet: Faulty Waste Stacks
A rat emerging from a toilet bowl is no urban legend: it is the symptom of a defective waste stack or a degraded building connection. Camera survey, rodent flap valves, how costs split between the owners' association and the occupant: the complete method for treating the cause, not just the animal.
Kitchen hood and ceiling void: the forgotten nest
In a commercial kitchen, the pest controller treats the floor, the skirting boards and the storerooms. Nobody opens the suspended ceiling, the hood or the extraction duct — and yet that is where the main harbourage of German cockroaches and mice is found. Here is how to organise an inspection of these voids, who is responsible between landlord and operator, and what a health inspector looks for up there.
Rodents in Lift Shafts: The Ignored Blind Spot
The lift pit is one of the few spaces in a building that neither the caretaker nor the pest control contractor is allowed to open. The result: it becomes a permanent larder and shelter for brown rats, beyond any inspection. Here is how to organise access, treatment and the division of responsibilities between managing agent, lift company and pest controller.