ORLANDO, Fla. – The first step to keeping out bugs, especially as the weather warms, is to build a barrier around your home.
Do that by getting a good quality pesticide from a DIY pest control store and then spray it around the perimeter of your house. Bugs will die when coming into contact with the chemical.
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We purchased:
- Transport GHP insecticide from Oviedo DIY Lawn and Pest https://www.diy-pestcontrol.com/
We brought with us:
- 2-gallon pump spray bottle
We recommend:
- gloves
- glasses
- face mask / respirator
- long sleeves
- long pants
- hat
Step 1
Walk around your house. First make sure you can actually walk around the perimeter of your home so you can spray around the perimeter. No vegetation should be touching your house so you may need to chop it back. Keep all vegetation at least a few feet away from your exterior walls so you can spray the ground in front of the walls but also so the vegetation doesn’t allow bugs or other critters to climb into your house.
Step 2
Go shopping. The effectiveness of your pest control is directly related to the quality of your insecticide. Home improvement stores carry home-strength products but DIY pest control stores carry commercial-strength products - which as you’d expect cost more. My favorite insecticide is called Transport GHP. It comes in a tub with 24 packets of powder. Each plastic packet dissolves in a gallon of water inside a sprayer tank so you don’t even have to open the powder packet.
Step 3
Mix. Drop in 1 powder packet and then fill your 1-gallon spray bottle with water (unless you have a 2-gallon pump spray bottle in which case you’d drop in 2 packets). Allow the packet to dissolve.
Step 4
Suit up. You definitely want to protect yourself before you spray. Wear glasses or goggles, a hat, and a good-quality respirator. Gloves are a must. And wear long pants and long sleeves. You don’t want to breath in the chemical of allow the spray to land on your skin.
Step 5
Spray. Transport instructions call for spraying several feet up your exterior walls and several feet out over the ground from the bottom of your walls. You want to create a buffer zone so no pests can crawl up your walls without touching the insecticide. Also spray around the perimeter of any windows and doors and under roof eaves and soffits. Walk around the entire perimeter of your house doing this.
Repeat every 3 months or more if the bugs come back sooner. And if you still can’t keep out the bugs, then maybe it’s time to call a pro.
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