Pest control tips & news
Prevention, good habits and expert insights to keep your spaces healthy: rats, mice, bed bugs, cockroaches, wasps and hornets.
Sealing Rodent Entry Points in Apartment Buildings
Baiting without sealing means paying for a contract for life. Sealing entry points — service penetrations, door thresholds, risers, ventilation grilles — is the only lasting part of rodent control in an apartment building. Here are the materials that hold up, the order of works, and how costs are split between the managing agent, the landlord and the tenant.
Rodenticide bait in buildings: the rules
A bait station that is badly placed, unsecured or left sitting for six months is both ineffective and legally indefensible. Here is what biocide regulations actually require in apartment blocks, offices and food premises: placement plan, securing, logbook, bait removal, and when mechanical trapping must take over.
Building demolition or strip-out: exterminate rats before you start breaking
Knocking down an infested building without treating it for rats first scatters the colony across the whole block: the neighbouring buildings get the bill a fortnight later. This article sets out the rat-control protocol required before a demolition or strip-out, the lead times to respect, who pays for it and which documents to demand from the contractor.
Administrative Closure for Pest Infestation: Acting Within 72 Hours
The DDPP closes a restaurant or food business over rodents or cockroaches: reopening no longer depends on cleanliness, but on the file submitted to the inspection service. Here is what you need to produce, in what order, and what most often holds up the lifting of the order.
Hotel pest management plan: the records you need to keep
In the hotel business, the biggest cost is no longer the infestation itself — it's the lack of traceability. Site plan, reports log, room-by-room inspections, service visit reports, documents to keep on file: here is the file an Île-de-France operator must be able to produce in ten minutes, and how to organise it with a service provider.
Pest control tender: comparing bids without getting it wrong
Four bids on the table, a threefold price spread and no obvious way to tell which one will deliver. Here is the analysis grid that experienced Paris-region property managers apply to a rodent and insect control contract: criteria weighting, decoding abnormally low prices, regulatory checks and the clauses that protect your buildings over four years.