Pest control tips & news
Prevention, good habits and expert insights to keep your spaces healthy: rats, mice, bed bugs, cockroaches, wasps and hornets.
Inactive managing agent facing a rat problem: the formal notice that works
When reports of rats or cockroaches pile up and no intervention is ever ordered, the case changes nature: it becomes a matter of evidence and procedure. Here is how to draft a formal notice that actually produces results, which legal texts support it, and what avenues exist — referral to the municipal hygiene and health service, injunction, court-appointed ad hoc representative — before ending up in court.
Rats in a Rented Home: Compensation and Rent Reduction
A home overrun by rats is no longer a decent home: the tenant can claim a rent reduction, compensation for loss of quiet enjoyment and, in serious cases, termination of the lease. Here are the documents that carry weight in court, the amounts typically awarded in practice, and how landlords and managing agents cut litigation off at the root.
Energy retrofits: deal with rodents before you insulate
External insulation fitted to a building already colonised by rodents seals the problem inside the wall for twenty years. Before voting on an energy retrofit, a homeowners' association or landlord has every reason to commission a pest survey and a preliminary rodent control campaign. Here is the schedule, the clauses to include in the contract, and the checkpoints at handover.
Pest control intervention report: how to check it properly
An annual rodent control contract should be judged on its intervention reports, not on its price. Here is what a report must contain, what bait consumption records reveal, and the six signs of a visit that lasted twenty minutes in the lobby.
Tenant refusing access for pest treatment: what to do
In a building treated stairwell by stairwell, two or three inaccessible flats are all it takes for the infestation to flare up again six weeks later. The law does not allow anyone to force entry into an occupant's home, but it does offer a precise sequence — notification, formal notice, emergency application for "useful measures" — that works in most cases. A practical guide for landlords, managing agents and property managers in the Paris region.
Disinfecting Commercial Premises and Common Areas: The Quote Explained
Between the "enhanced cleaning" offered by cleaning contractors and the technical disinfection billed by pest control firms, property managers in the Paris region no longer know what they are buying. This article explains when disinfecting premises or common areas is genuinely justified, what the NF T72-281 standard requires of airborne disinfection processes, and how to read a quote line by line before signing.