October 18, 2021
RATSENSE - How to Prevent Rodents From Entering Your Workspace or Commercial Buildings?
Undoubtedly catching a sight of a rat or mice in your commercial space is one of the most daunting things that can ever happen, but preventing the same should be one of your prime concerns to avoid any such future instances. Owing a big restaurant, hotels, café, mall, or even an office workspace is not worth giving a try, if you cannot take preventive measures to secure the health and hygiene of your guests, workforce and even of visitors. Since warm areas and leakages are the two most common areas for rats and mice to hide, you must take some preventive measures to void these opportunity intruders. If you just wish to keep the food, warmth, and comfort to your guests, then read the following sections to understand a few tips that can help you to prevent the entry of rodents in commercial workspaces:
What All They Are Looking For?
Making everything available at disposal is one of the biggest mistakes that most of the commercial building owners make to attract rodents. Some food and warmth are their prime concerns, hence, ensuring adequate availability of these two may invite rodents to your commercial workspaces and they won’t take a minute to snoop in, if given a chance. It is important to keep all the things they love away from their reach to prevent their entry in your cafes, restaurants, hotels, malls, and other commercial buildings.
How to Figure Out If You Have a Rodent Inside?
Mice and rats may leave their leave their marks and make too much noise around their habitats to catch your attention. If you have good hearing capabilities, then you can also listen them rustling around in walls or ceilings, behind the refrigerator, and even in the air conditioning vents. Seeing small holes gnawed in properly sealedcereals, sugar and bread bags are quite common. They may also leave some inevitable mouse droppings behind on counter tops, dashes, and even cupboards to leave their marks of existence.
How to Get Rid of Rodents Completely?
- Begin the session by getting rid of all the potential food sources.
- Cleaning up any spills or crumbs lying in cupboards since long could be another effective way to put an end to their food offerings.
- Clean out the clutter and put your dry food in glass or metal containers to avoid offering an ease of access to them.
- Seal all the wall and door openings to prevent more mice from getting in.
- Install rodent sensor and other advanced devices to monitor their activities and then create a trap to get rid of them completely.
- Place the rodent catching traps closer to areas where they move
- Using peanut butter or chocolate helps in catching them immediately
- If you have placed the traps in the same area since long and haven’t got anything, then relocate them to a different area to gain success.
- Take help of live traps, if you really don’t wish to kill them all.
- Look for any openings from outside or inside the doors and windows and seal them properly to prevent them from snooping inside.
- Keep a constant check on electrical or gas pipe entrances for tiny gaps as they work as an open invitation to rodents.
Rodents are more than just an aggravation and they can possess great threats to your business and its reputation and premises. Call your nearest pest and rodent control service provider now, and install rodent sensor devices to ensure that you service guests with happiness not diseases!