Precision Pest Control works homes across Colorado Springs, from older brick houses near downtown to newer builds pushed up against the foothills below Cheyenne Mountain. Most of what gets into a house here starts as a gap somewhere in the exterior, not a spray problem. We spend as much time finding those gaps as we do treating what already got through.


Box elder bugs and honey bees are two of the most common calls we get in Colorado Springs, both drawn to sun-warmed walls on the west and south sides of a house before they look for a crack to slip through for winter. Bats show up in older neighborhoods near rock outcroppings and attic vents that were never screened properly, and mice push in through gaps around utility lines and garage door seals once the nights turn cold. Centipedes, earwigs, and the occasional cockroach ride in through window wells and basement frames that have pulled away from the foundation over time.
Colorado Springs sits at over 6,000 feet, and the swing between a sunny afternoon and a cold night here is bigger than in most places, which means houses expand and contract more than they would at lower elevation. That movement opens gaps around window frames, siding, and the mortar joints on older brick homes near downtown and the Old North End. The soil under a lot of foundations also shifts with moisture, which is why cracked stucco and pulled weep hole covers are so common on homes built into the foothills below Cheyenne Mountain and out toward Fountain Creek. None of that is unique to one house. It is a function of the elevation and the clay this whole city sits on.
So our work here leans on sealing before it leans on product. We check weep holes along the base of stucco and brick for the screens that keep bees and wasps from nesting inside the wall cavity, since that is one of the most common calls we get in this city. We screen attic and soffit vents to keep bats and mice from using them as an entry point, seal gaps around utility penetrations and garage door bottoms, and correct grading where soil has settled against a foundation and left an opening at the sill plate. A house sealed properly here needs far less repeat treatment than one that only gets sprayed.


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