Pest control tips & news
Prevention, good habits and expert insights to keep your spaces healthy: rats, mice, bed bugs, cockroaches, wasps and hornets.
Voting a Rodent Control Contract at the AGM: A Practical Guide
A rodent control contract poorly presented at a general meeting means a vote postponed by a year and rats still living in the bin room. Article 24 majority, quotes attached to the notice of meeting, competitive tendering, allocation of charges among co-owners: here is the procedure a managing agent or condominium board in the Paris region needs to follow.
Pest Control Specifications: Writing an RFP for Social Landlords and Property Managers
A poorly written pest control tender always produces the same outcome: three incomparable bids, a contractor chosen on the lowest price, and communal areas still infested twelve months later. Here is how to structure workable rodent-control, insect-control and disinfection specifications, lot by lot, with the KPIs and supporting documents you should demand.
Rats in a Warehouse: Control Plan and Customer Audits
A logistics warehouse is not an apartment building: entry points are at the loading docks, the cladding and the buried utility networks, and rodent pressure comes from outside. This article details the control plan an auditor expects (bait station layout plan, logbook, consumption monitoring), the mistakes that cost points in an IFS or BRC audit, and what an annual contract must contain to hold up in front of a major client.
Rodents in a ground-floor business: who pays?
A food business on the ground floor of an apartment building shares its walls, its service ducts and often its cellar with the condominium: the infestation is rarely "its own", yet the hygiene inspection lands on it. This guide sets out how responsibility is split between operator, landlord and managing agent, which lease clauses to re-read, and the treatment protocol that actually works when the rats are coming from the common areas.
Bed bugs throughout the building: the treatment plan
When three apartments on the same staircase report bed bugs, treating them one flat at a time is pointless. Here's how to organise a building-wide treatment: mapping the infestation, systematic inspection, a visit schedule, handling refused access, and splitting responsibilities between landlord, managing agent and occupants.
Mice in offices: treating the problem without closing the premises
A mouse spotted under a desk at 9 am always triggers the same sequence: photos on the internal chat, worried employees, management improvising. Here is the real diagnosis of an office infestation in the Paris region — raised floors, ducts, kitchenette — the treatment protocol for occupied premises, and how responsibility is shared between employer, landlord and managing agent.