Pest control tips & news
Prevention, good habits and expert insights to keep your spaces healthy: rats, mice, bed bugs, cockroaches, wasps and hornets.
Building Caretaker: A Key Role Against Pests
In a Paris-region apartment block, the caretaker is the first to see droppings, torn-open bin bags and full glue boards. Poorly framed, this role becomes a legal risk for the managing agent and the landlord; properly framed, it halves detection time. Monitoring protocol, limits set by the Labour Code, reporting form and traceability.
Pests in a New Building: Who Must Treat?
A brand-new residence is no safer from rodents: unsealed conduits, open crawl spaces, poorly designed bin rooms. Between the one-year completion warranty, the ten-year structural warranty and handover snag lists, the managing agent and buyers hold levers that are rarely used. Here's how to make the builder pay for its defects instead of charging the service budget.
Service Shafts: The Rat Highway in Apartment Blocks
A building treated in the basement keeps reporting rodents on the 4th floor: the problem is almost never the bin room, but the vertical service shafts linking the cellar to kitchens and bathrooms. This article explains how to map those routes, what a managing agent or landlord can decide without waiting for a general meeting, and which repairs to order in what order.
Bike and stroller rooms: the forgotten rodent hub
In most Paris-region buildings, the bike and stroller room is the only communal space nobody inspects, empties or cleans. It is also where mice find warmth, food and nesting material from November onwards. Audit, restoration and how responsibilities are split between managing agent, landlord and occupants.
Changing Managing Agent: Taking Over the Pest File
When a residential block changes managing agent or terminates its rodent control contract, treatment often stops for months without anyone noticing. Here are the documents to demand from the outgoing firm, the audit to run on the bait stations already installed, and the handover timetable to follow to avoid a full recolonisation of the building.
Pest Control Records: Which Documents to Keep
A managing agent, landlord or employer may have treated a problem properly and still be left empty-handed for lack of paperwork. Here is the pest control record to maintain: mandatory documents, retention periods, bait station layout plans, safety data sheets, and how to hand it over when the managing agent or contractor changes.