Dealing with Fleas
Flea exterminators are fully licensed pest control technicians with full training on how best to eradicate fleas from your home. With an insecticide, a technician would spray the affected areas such as carpets and rugs. Fleas can also harbour in the cracks in floor boards, so these areas can also be treated.
Sources of Fleas
With most flea problems around the home, there is always a reason why the fleas are there. This is usually do to with pets. Cats and dogs are carriers of fleas and, if not treated on a regular basis, can become infested with them. A regular flea wash for your pets and a monthly flea treatment that is applied to back of the neck is what is recommended to help in the prevention of fleas.
When a professional pest control company carries out a flea treatment, it is advised to have dogs and cats treated with Frontline or Advantage at the same time. These treatments must be applied after the animal has been cleaned and is completely dry.
Getting Rid of Fleas at Home
To get the best results when there is a serious flea problem, it is best to have your pets cleaned by a professional dog cleaning company. They can come to your home with a mobile bath and treat the animals with a special flea shampoo. The shampoos will also kill the eggs that are deep within the coat. They are then groomed and dried. After they have been dried, the second flea treatment is applied to the back of the neck.
Carpet Cleaning
What is the best way to get rid of fleas in the carpet? The first thing is to give them a good steam clean. This can be done by contacting your local carpet cleaning company that specialises in carpet steam cleaning and carpet dry cleaning. The cleaning process will get rid of a lot of the fleas and the eggs. The remainder can be sprayed by the pest controller.
A professional carpet cleaning company would also have a pest control division. The job can be coordinated by the one company, making it a stress free process for the customer. It is important to use a company that deals in flea problems a lot because there may be a need for the pest controller to come back and do a second or back up spray to completely remove the flea infestation.
Your local pest control company is the best place to start to get the right advice on the best methods to exterminate fleas. Sometimes, fleas can be mixed up with other pests such as bed bugs or mites. The easiest way to tell if you have a flea problem is by the location of the bites. Fleas will bite mainly on the lower part of the legs looking for a blood meal. Once they finished feeding, they will then go and lay more eggs. Then, the flea life cycle starts again. They can breed at an alarming rate, so early treatment is the key to a successful outcome.
Adult Flea
Flea Life Cycle.
Fleas can easily get inside the house. This is especially true when you have pets with you and they spend a lot of time outdoors. Your pets may be bringing fleas into the house and the areas where they sleep are likely to be infested. There is no simple way to remove fleas from the home. The removal has to be thorough. A good way to ensure that they are completely removed from the premises is by hiring the help of a professional pest control Company.
Bathing Pets and Cleaning Furniture
The first step to eliminating fleas from the home is to treat your pets from fleas. Choose flea medications that are not going to pose any sort of harm to the health of your pets. Next, the beddings, carpets, upholstery and other fabrics where the pets may have visited should be cleaned. Check for other fabrics that may have been infested even though the pets have not come in contact with them. Fleas could have travelled to those places too. Beddings and other fabrics need to be washed in hot water to kill any fleas, larvae and flea eggs residing there. The carpets and upholstery have to be vacuum cleaned using a vacuum cleaner with powerful suction. Place the collected dirt in a sealable plastic bag and discard immediately far from the home.
Calling a Professional Pest Control Company
After this initial cleaning process, it would be good to call for help from a professional pest control company to ensure that that flea control measure would be effective and last long. A reputable pest control company would know just how to hunt down any remaining fleas that may be hiding in crevices of the walls or floors. They would be applying pest control solutions to kill the fleas without presenting harm to the health of the residents of the house. The pesticide needs to be effective enough to keep fleas out of the house for a long period of time.
To make sure that the house stays free from fleas, it has to be made unattractive to the pests. Keep the house always clean by regularly vacuum cleaning fabrics where fleas will likely reside. Put pet beddings away from carpeted areas. The pets will have to be kept clean and free from these parasites as well for their own good and for the good of the family. It pays to know the life cycle of pests such as fleas so as to know what attracts them and what turns them off. Fleas thrive in hot, humid weather such as during the summer months. They flourish most in areas where the pets feed and sleep, so these areas should be targeted with insecticide before calling for intervention of a pest control professional.
