Precision Pest Control covers homes across Anaheim, from the raised-foundation bungalows in the Anaheim Colony Historic District to the newer slab construction climbing the hills in Anaheim Hills. The age and foundation type of a house changes where pests get in and how we treat it. We look at the building itself before we look at the bug.


Termites are the biggest concern in the older raised-foundation homes around the Anaheim Colony, where a crawl space and original wood framing from the 1900s and 1920s give subterranean and drywood species plenty to work with. Ants and spiders move through those same crawl spaces and into slab homes across West Anaheim just as easily, following irrigation lines and expansion cracks in concrete. Silverfish and millipedes turn up in damp corners, garages, and older bathrooms where humidity collects, more often in houses with less ventilation than newer builds get. Bed bugs and fleas show up regardless of a home's age, usually arriving with a person, a pet, or used furniture.
Anaheim's housing stock breaks into a few clear eras, and each one lets pests in a different way. The bungalows in the Anaheim Colony Historic District date back to the 1900s through the 1920s, built on raised foundations over crawl spaces that give termites, ants, and spiders a way in from below that a slab home simply does not have. We check subfloor vents and foundation piers on those properties first, because that is usually where a problem starts, not the kitchen.
West Anaheim's tract homes went up fast during the postwar boom of the 1950s and 1960s, built on concrete slabs with the plumbing and electrical embedded in the foundation itself. Pests there come in through expansion cracks that widen as the slab ages, and through gaps around old aluminum window frames that were standard for the era. Up in Anaheim Hills, where most of the construction dates to the 1970s through 1990s, homes sit closer to open brush on graded hillsides, which brings a different mix of ants and spiders moving down from the canyons during dry months. We treat each of these three housing types differently rather than running the same service on a bungalow, a tract home, and a hillside property.


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See at Pest World!