Precision Pest Control serves Prescott from the historic homes around Whiskey Row and the courthouse plaza out to the properties in the Granite Dells and the ponderosa on the edges of town. At a mile above sea level in a chaparral and pine transition zone, this is not desert pest work.


Prescott sits in a transition between chaparral and ponderosa pine, and both contribute. Deer mice and woodrats are the primary calls, especially in outbuildings and crawl spaces, and woodrat nests in the granite boulder fields around the Dells are a permanent feature. Carpenter ants and odorous house ants work moisture-damaged wood in the older homes downtown. Add yellow jackets and paper wasps in late summer, cluster flies in fall, bats roosting in attics, skunks and raccoons under decks, and spiders throughout.
Rodent work here is about boulders and outbuildings rather than block walls. The granite formations that make this area beautiful are also permanent woodrat habitat, and the nests they build in rock crevices and under sheds are established structures that persist for years. Treating a house without addressing the nest nearby is temporary at best. We locate the nests, deal with them properly, and then seal the structure so the next generation has nowhere to go, focusing on crawl space vents, foundation gaps and the outbuildings where feed and stored goods actually are.
The older housing downtown brings a wood and moisture problem. Homes around Whiskey Row and the surrounding historic blocks are frame construction, many with crawl spaces, and carpenter ants follow water into any wood that has stayed damp. Finding the leak is the first half of the job. Wildlife work is the other regular piece, and we handle skunks, raccoons and bats with exclusion and one-way devices rather than trapping, done outside maternity season so we are not sealing young animals inside a structure.


See at Pest World!


See at Pest World!