Preventative Maintenance

Preventative Maintenance: Pest Control

Name: Preventative Maintenance: Pest Control
Uploaded: 2025-04-10T17:32:31Z
Duration: 2 min 15 s
Description: For pest control preventative maintenance, schedule regular inspections and exterior spraying. Seal entry points around utilities and windows to prevent pests. Educate residents on proper trash handling to avoid attracting pests, especially with concierge services. Emphasize when and where to put out trash to prevent it from sitting in breezeways and inviting bugs.

For pest control preventative maintenance, schedule regular inspections and exterior spraying. Seal entry points around utilities and windows to prevent pests. Educate residents on proper trash handling to avoid attracting pests, especially with concierge services. Emphasize when and where to put out trash to prevent it from sitting in breezeways and inviting bugs.

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Preventative maintenance for pest control, routine inspections. Maybe your property has a contract and they come out and they spray specific units on an as needed basis, or maybe it's on a schedule basis, but they should also be spraying the exterior of your buildings on some type of monthly base, quarterly base, your ground, whatever it is, they spray your grounds, they whatever it is to your contract, but.

Pest control should be part of preventative maintenance. Times of year, certain bugs are more active. You want to get ahead of that seal. Common entry points around utility penetration, so your gas meters, your electrical meters, your cable boxes, you know your line sets for your HVAC systems around windows, anything close to the ground around bushes, you want to make sure that those penetrations are sealed properly to prevent bugs.

Pests from getting inside. And then you also want to do your part in educating your residents on trash handling. Most of us nowadays have these concierge services who come and pick up your trash. Not all of your residents are gonna adhere to those rules. Not all of your residents are gonna put the trash bag out after.

Whatever the time is on whatever the date is, you know they're gonna wake up at 10 o'clock in the morning and they're gonna put their trash outside. Maybe they work their shift, maybe they're not home at six o'clock to put it out. So it's gonna go out early, or it's gonna go out late. One of the two is gonna happen.

And that trash is gonna sit in your breezeway and it's gonna invite bugs. So this is a good time to educate residents on best practices for trash pickup, for those concierge services. So for pest control, routine pest inspections, seal common points of entry, and then educate your residents on where and when to put out the trash.