Hiring a Commercial Pest Control Service

If you need to rid your business premises of pests of any kind, who you gonna call? This is the exact kind of thing that commercial pest control services do. Of course, it can be quite an undertaking sifting through the dozens of advertisements that you will come across looking for such a service in your area. It can be a real bother to have to spend hours on going through every company, calling them, explaining what your needs are and talking to them about what the contract will cost. But there are ways to narrow the choices before you, down to a manageable number.

Commercial pest control services will often specialize in specific areas. A restaurant or food service business doesn't have the same kinds of needs as a hospital or manufacturing unit. You need to find a company that specializes in the kind of commercial establishment you are interested in having cleaned out. A hospital for instance, cannot just shut down for a couple of days to have the pest control people go over it once. A service that is equipped to deal with hospitals will need to be able to work around all the patients, and they will need to be equipped to use methods that don't bother sick and vulnerable people. A manufacturing unit will often be so large that a pest business will need special equipment to cover it in a reasonable amount of time.

Hiring a commercial pest control business, you do need to exercise some of the same kinds of judgment that you would hiring an exterminator to clean a residential home out. For instance, you would like to check to see that the business that you hire is indeed licensed. Pest control services do need special licensing because they handle poisons. If unlicensed businesses were allowed to operate, there is no telling what they could do if they were careless. It wouldn't be a bad idea to check to see if the business that interests you, has all the licenses needed by your state.

Now the fact that the government makes it mandatory for commercial pest control businesses to be licensed, should throw up a red flag. If it's that dangerous, what happens if something goes wrong? That's actually a very good question to ask. While it isn't a legal requirement, it is often a good idea to go with a company where all their workers and technicians are bonded. What does that mean?

It means that they are all personally insured by their trade association. Should they ever cause an accident in the line of their work, you could sue them, and the bonding agreement would help them pay what the owed you.

And finally, try to go with a business that has the an established track record. A business like that is likely to have access to the latest in environmentally friendly commercial pest control. We live in a time when businesses need absolutely to prove to their clients that they are always aware of the environmental implications of everything they do. It just would not do to hire a pest control service that didn't have access to all these new methods.