Precision Pest Control works Phoenix homes and commercial buildings from the Encanto and Arcadia ranch blocks out to the newer stucco on the South Mountain and Papago edges. We treat the way this city is actually built, which means block walls, weep holes, flood-irrigated lots and alley corridors get as much attention as the inside of the house.


Phoenix hands us a specific list, and after thirty years in the Valley we know where each one comes from. Bark scorpions ride the block walls and alley lines after dark, German and American cockroaches move through sewer laterals and slab penetrations, and Argentine ants follow the flood irrigation on the older Arcadia and Encanto lots. Add roof rats in the mature citrus, subterranean termites working the caliche, black widows in the weep holes, crickets pushed in off the desert preserves, and the palo verde beetles that show up on porch lights every June.
Almost nothing about pest pressure in Phoenix is random. The alley grid that runs behind most of the older neighborhoods is a highway for roof rats and scorpions, and the block walls that define nearly every lot in this city are hollow, which makes them a scorpion refuge with a weep hole every few feet as a doorway. Flood irrigation on the historic lots near the Grand Canal pushes ants and crickets up out of the soil on a schedule you can set a watch to. On the preserve edges near South Mountain and Papago, the desert simply ends at somebody's back wall, and everything that lives out there tests that wall nightly.
So we do not start with a spray. We start with a walk of the perimeter, and we treat the wall system, the weep holes, the slab expansion joints and the utility penetrations before we touch anything else. Interior work is targeted at what the inspection actually found rather than a blanket baseboard application. For scorpion accounts we use a black light sweep after dark, because that is the only honest way to know whether a treatment worked in this city. Then we come back, check the same spots, and adjust. That follow-up is the difference between a Phoenix house that stays quiet and one that calls back every August.


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See at Pest World!