Precision Pest Control services homes across St. Louis, from brick bungalows in neighborhoods like The Hill and Tower Grove to newer construction farther out toward the county line. The inspection is where we spend most of our first visit, not the last five minutes of it. What we find in an old fieldstone foundation changes the whole plan.


We check for black widow spiders in garages, woodpiles, and window wells, deer mice getting into older homes through gaps around foundation vents, and ants and termites working through the rubble stone and brick foundations common to St. Louis housing built in the early twentieth century. Mosquitoes and ticks build up in yards near green space and drainage ditches through the humid summer months, and bed bugs turn up in bedrooms regardless of a home's age, from older two-flats near the city center to newer construction farther from downtown.
St. Louis housing stock makes the inspection more important than it might be somewhere with newer, more uniform construction. A lot of the city's brick two-flats and bungalows were built with rubble stone or early poured foundations that have settled and cracked in ways a generic checklist never anticipates, so we start outside, checking foundation joints, window wells, and the gap where old foundation vents meet newer siding, since deer mice and ants both use those same openings to get in. Garages and detached structures common to these older lots get checked separately, because a black widow problem in a garage doesn't always connect to anything happening in the house itself.
Inside, we follow the same logic room by room instead of walking a fixed route regardless of what we've already found. A termite finding near one foundation wall tells us to check the framing above that same wall more closely than the rest of the house, and evidence of moisture in a basement changes how closely we look at anything wood-to-ground nearby. Bed bugs get checked in bedrooms independent of everything else, since they travel with people and furniture rather than with a structure's age or condition. Mosquito and tick pressure in the yard gets assessed against nearby drainage and green space rather than assumed to be the same on every lot in the same neighborhood.


See at Pest World!


See at Pest World!