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residential pest control


Pest Control At Home – The Kitchen

Kennedy’s mouse or no mouse post reminds me of the “mouse in the house” incident we once had, many, many years ago when I still lived in the parental home. Although not as funny as Ollie’s creative residential pest control blog post, my experience still brings home (pardon the pun) the need for vigilance at [...]

Mouse or no Mouse? That is the question!

On Saturday afternoon my flat mate advised us that he has seen a mouse! Aaaaagggghhhh! Apparently it ran through the kitchen and hid behind the fridge. It appears mice are quite smart about where they hide. I was not happy… they knew I would not be happy! I had expressed my fear of rats and [...]

Two Sides To American Pest Control

Many years ago I had a client who had two major problems. One was a nasty cockroach problem and the other was, well, me. She was a nice enough lady but she must have felt ashamed or embarrassed to have a bug man and so she was very specific in her instructions. I was to [...]

Creative Residential Pest Control

So blog post number one then… Where I grew up in this big old barn house in the south of France, me and my family were pretty used to rats. It was an ongoing battle that became part of every day life, just like brushing your teeth or arguing with the neighbour. But one fateful [...]

Statue Comes Alive At Night – Pest or Not?

You know how sometimes you hear a story from a freind, via another friend who heard it from their neighbour, and you think to yourself, really? This was one of those times when a colleague from the Ireland office shared this story with me…. “One morning a colleague came into the office carrying a statue [...]