Precision Pest Control treats apartments, brownstones, and multifamily buildings across New York City's five boroughs, where kids and pets often share small square footage with whatever is being treated. That closeness changes how we choose products and where we apply them. We plan every visit around who actually lives in the unit, not just what pest is present.


Cockroaches and bed bugs move between units through shared walls and plumbing chases, which is common in older prewar buildings, so we treat with baits and targeted crack and crevice work instead of broad spraying near floors where a toddler or a dog spends most of the day. House centipedes and crickets show up in basements and ground floor units, cluster flies gather at windows in the fall, and rodents work their way in through gaps around pipes in walk ups with older plumbing. Spiders are usually incidental, following the other activity rather than causing it.
Product choice matters more in a six hundred square foot apartment than it does in a house with a yard, because there is nowhere for a family to go while a treatment sets up. We favor gel baits and targeted crack and crevice applications over broadcast spraying for cockroaches and ants, placed inside cabinets, along baseboards, and behind appliances where a crawling toddler or a curious dog is unlikely to make contact. For bed bugs, which move easily between units in a shared building, we explain re-entry times clearly and time treatments around when kids are at school or a pet can stay with a neighbor for a few hours.
We also account for building rules that a single family home never has to deal with, like shared HVAC risers, service elevators, and superintendent coordination across a dozen or more units. A family in a walk up in Astoria or a co op on the Upper West Side gets the same standard: nothing applied where a hand or a paw can reach it without a clear explanation of what was used and why. Parents and pet owners get told exactly when a room is safe to go back into, not a vague estimate, because that is the detail that actually matters to someone living in six hundred square feet with a two year old or a dog that chews on baseboards.


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