ChuteSpan/Pest Pro Services 3-step approach to solving mouse infested apartment buildings

As the weather begins to turn colder, rodents are seeking warmer environments. Here are 3 steps to prevent this from happening. Step 1: Denying free access Seal out the rodents Any infested building has holes and defects, which need to be addressed. Mice/rats have an open door invitation that needs to be eliminated. They got in somehow, but where? ChuteSpan will conduct a survey to ascertain the entry points around the building and all defects that need to be corrected. These defects include: spaces around pipe chases, cracks in concrete at the base of building, unscreened windows and vents as well as spaces under exterior doors. ChuteSpan is fully equipped to correct these problems using high-quality materials installed in a professional and efficient manner at the right price. We are rodent-proofing specialists not a general contractor. We have just what it takes to close the door on the rodents - access denied! Step 2: Closing the Cafeteria Starve and poison the rodents in the basement/ground level After invading an apartment house, rodents make a beeline for the compactor room. The fresh pungent trash will become the main feeding source for generations of mice to come (only if we let them). Additionally, the trash chute rising to the top floor affords vertical-climbing mice an "elevator" to all floors and an easy way to access apartments. ChuteSpan has devised and patented a solution which involves thorough steam-cleaning of chute shafts and chute doors as well the compactor room and especially cleaning the compactor machine. With all food particles and grime gone the rodents will have no further feeding grounds. But we don't stop there. Pest Pro our sister company schedules a visit to the property to coincide with the conclusion of the chute cleaning and begins their magic the very same day! The Pest Pro technician proceeds to lay PVC-pipes laced with extremely potent RoZall tracking powder and fresh bait around the basement rooms and around the compactor machine and room. The management is instructed to keep chutes locked off to the residents not allowing for the use of the chute for at least 36-48 hours-enough time needed to force the mice to eat the bait. You see, on an average day mice/rats visit the compactor room to eat their dinner consisting of fresh and pungent trash-only now mice find nothing but our fresh bait laced with lethal tracking powder. Once rodents ingest the tracking powder and ingestion takes place even by simply walking on the powder and normal grooming, death occurs within 24-48 hours. Within the week most or all rodents are now dead. Which leads us to our final step... Step 3: Final Eviction Poison and trap 'em on their turf Once inside a property's basement, rodents have unlimited access to all areas and floors of a building. Using steam and plumbing pipe conduits, mice can gain access to the highest points of a building with ease. Upon reaching a particular floor, a mouse only needs to find a space as small as 1/2 inch to "pop" out from behind the wall. For a mouse living and breeding behind apartment walls it is not hard to find a way to get out. Holes abound. Holes behind stoves gas pipes, holes under kitchen and bathroom plumbing, as well as holes around steam pipes and under radiators afford mice excellent ways to invade an apartment. Pest Pro Services, when it comes to rodent control is one of the few companies in the industry to go beyond the normal practice of placing a bag of poison and a glue board and asking the tenant for a signature. We devised a method of actually getting rid of the mice once and for all-not simply trapping or poisoning a mouse here and there. This method involves the use of Rozall tracking powder along with poisons, which gets injected into the walls of the apartments where mice are nesting, breeding, urinating and defecating. Following the wall injections, which involves injecting into existing holes behind stoves, under sinks, and around radiators and steam pipes the technician proceeds to stuff the hole with special copper mesh designed to withstand gnawing and will never rust as is the case with steel wool. Additionally, we use special plaster named Rat Patch. This is plaster mixed with slivers of glass to prevent gnawing and cause certain death to any rodent attempting to chew through it. By the time this process is performed in all of the apartments in the building the mice have been eliminated in the thorough and most efficient way possible. Please note that dead rodents especially those that die behind a wall can produce very unpleasant odors. Pest Pro has available special super strength deodorizers that once released will stay in effect for up to a week-enough time for the odor to dissipate. With proper exterior maintenance and reporting by Pest Pro and the building's staff as well as regular trash chute and compactor cleaning in conjunction with the use of Tamper proof bait stations around the building's exterior your property can be among those that actually know exactly how many residents live in their building. Sol Freud is the president/owner of ChuteSpan & Pest Pro Services, Staten Island, N.Y.