Why Is My Home Attracting Pests and How to Avoid That?

The sight of a pest in our home brings to mind a number of uncomfortable possibilities – maybe some of the food in your pantry or kitchen has spoiled, or you’ve left a window cracked open where pests are able to enter your home. One way or another, something is attracting pests, and the best way to avoid attracting pests is to deal with whatever is attracting them. These things can be any spoiled food, leaking water, old laundry, dirty dishes, just to name a few.

For the most lived-in portions of your home, you should be able to get by with a rigorous house cleaning regimen. For rooms you seldom use, a better solution is our pest repellers working guide for beginners all about ultrasonic repellers and other potential pest repellers to suit your home.

Read on for why your home is attracting pests and what you can do to avoid that.

1. Unfinished Domestic Tasks

In other words: chores you should be doing. This can be anything from dirty dishes to heaps of laundry, it can also be excrement from any pets you own and even just an overabundance of clutter and unused furniture. 

If the usual extent of your pest control is killing roaches whenever they happen to rear their ugly heads, then you are not doing enough. You aren’t addressing the source of the infestation. All of your unfinished domestic tasks result in conditions which pests find highly appealing because of what they offer: commonly either shelter, a source of food, or both.

The longer you leave any of these tasks undone, the more attractive they become to pests. To help yourself attend to your domestic tasks, you can create a schedule or a series of alarms to regularly remind you of what needs doing.

2. Accumulated Wear

By this, I’m referring to tasks that you don’t usually expect to have to do on a regular basis, tasks – usually more difficult tasks – like scouring the stovetop or the underside of cookware, cleaning the inside of your bins, cleaning gutters, and throwing out stagnant water. You may not have considered it, but unless you regularly wipe down these parts of your home after every use, then tiny bits of food or waste from your household activities are able to build up there and attract pests. Food and waste safety is an essential element of housekeeping and pest prevention.

These pest attractions usually take a while to build up to a noticeable level, but by then, the build-up is much more difficult to remove, needing either a hard scrub or the use of powerful cleaning agents. This is why it’s always handy to have detergent and bleach. Other products you can use for dealing with build-up grime are vinegar – white or distilled are best, and baking soda.

You’ll have to put in the effort the first time you attend to these tasks, but afterward, all you need to do is create a schedule for cleaning these too. Once a week should be frequent enough, and as long as you keep at it, it’ll be much easier since you prevent that build-up in the first place.

3. Killing Spiders

Spiders might freak you out, but like our cats, they catch and eliminate pests from our homes. If you find spiders in your home, take it as a sign that you have other more pressing pest problems. After all, why would there be spiders there if there were no smaller insects for them to hunt and kill, right?

So, just remember the spiders in your home aren’t what you should be worried about, and in fact, they help keep pests in check. If you address the root cause of your pest infestation, spiders will leave on their own. And, the root cause is usually one of the previous two reasons your home might be attracting pests that we just covered above.

4. Not Asking For Help

Depending on your situation, you may or may not need help – that much is common sense. The problem is that most of us drastically overestimate how many chores we can conveniently handle, especially if you have a career or a home of even moderate size. It’s physically impossible to keep a large home or estate clean by yourself.

If you live with a partner or family, then many helping hands make the work lighter. Just be careful what chores you give to young children. Don’t allow children to handle powerful cleaning agents, avoid giving them tasks that require reaching heights they are too small to reach.

And lastly, don’t forget that you can easily find a cleaning service. These are great for the occasional deep clean, especially if you can have it done while you have to be away from your residence for a while.

Conclusions

If you have pest problems, the first thing to do is assess the possible source of the infestation and address it. After that, maintain a regular housekeeping regimen, making sure to address any build-up. Along the way, don’t be afraid to reach out to family or cleaning professionals for help. To safely eliminate severe pest problems, consider high-tech solutions like ultrasonic pest repellers, which eliminate the dangers of ingesting and inhaling harmful substances inherent to other traditional forms of pest control.