Preparation and Treatment
Guidance for Fleas
Please be advised it is vital that these instructions are followed to support the treatment, both before and after.
Preparation involves providing access for pest control treatment. If rooms are not properly prepared, successful elimination is practically impossible. Although this may be timeconsuming for you, without this, the treatment will be limited and less likely to succeed.
Before Treatment Checklist
- Unplug: All non-essential electrical items on the day of the treatment.
- Vacuum: The whole house, including furniture such as settees and lounge chairs (please empty contents in a secure waste bag and place outside in the waste bin). Vacuuming all areas helps to remove any debris, eggs, larvae, pupae and adult fleas. The vibration of the vacuum cleaner also stimulates adults to hatch from their cocoon stage, making them easier to destroy with insecticides.
- Dusting: All shelves and units should be dusted.
- Store away: exposed food stuffs (cupboards / fridge).
- All items: On the floor should be picked up.
- All items: (chest of drawer, beds etc) should be moved out away from the walls where possible. It's important to clear as much space as possible to allow a better coverage of insecticide.
- Property: Should be warm, not overheated.
- Cats and dogs MUST: Be treated with a suitable, veterinary approved product, recommended by your vet. This treatment must be continued or fleas will return.
- Wash: All pet bedding, sofa cushion covers and any other blankets, bedding or clothing which might be affected, in very hot water, usually 60 degrees.
- Cover: Any fish tanks and/or open water tanks.
- Windows: Should be closed.
- Where there is any overgrowth (grass/ weeds): In the garden area, all efforts should be made to maintain this. Any trees in close proximity to the property should also be maintained so that any branches do not hang over the windows or doors.
- Treatment: to be completed with no occupants present and customers advised not to enter the property - approximately 4 hours after the treatment and air the property on return.
- Please be advised that all valuable items: Should be removed / placed in a secure place (locked safe) during the treatment. We will not be responsible for any items that are reported as missing.
Areas To Be Treated
- Floors.
- Carpets - wall to wall.
- Under furniture areas.
- Upholstered furniture.
- Cracks and crevices - wall / flooring junctions.
- Walls - up to a height of one metre.
- Primary resting spot of the pet (if applicable).
Post Treatment Advice
- Health and Safety. Do not: Enter treated areas until dry, for as least 4 hours. You should open windows to allow the area to be fully ventilated for a further hour before entering the room. Please ensure there are no wet surfaces. After the spray treatment is completed do not let pets or children walk barefoot on the sprayed areas until dry as it can be a mild irritant while wet.
- No vacuuming for the next 14 days: This is important to ensure that the insecticide is not removed.
- Biting: May still continue for a short period as eggs laid by fleas may hatch with vibrations in the property.
- Avoid washing: Floor surfaces, especially the edges, until the day before the second treatment visit and do not steam clean carpets.
- DO NOT: Use other pest control chemicals (powders or sprays) or cleaning products anywhere near treatment areas, as this will decrease effectiveness.
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT FLEAS MAY CONTINUE TO EMERGE, WHICH MAY RESULT IN OCCASIONAL BITES. AS THEY COME INTO CONTACT WITH THE CHEMICAL RESIDUE THEY WILL SLOWLY DIE OFF.
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