Howard County · Iowa

Pest control in Elma, IA

Seen something moving in the kitchen, or marks you cannot place? Say what you have found and where in the home it turned up, and a licensed exterminator can come out to Elma and deal with it.

(888) 217-6291

Licensed Iowa technicians. No obligation for the call.

Section through a house—built the 1940s, as most of Elma was

Awater lineenters
Bdoor sillat the step
Csill plateon the wall
—brick weep holes — little brick veneer here

License: Held by the contractor and issued in Iowa. Ask which name it is held under — a trading name and the licensed entity are often not the same.
Price: What the pest is, what the treatment involves, how many visits it takes and what it costs — explained before any work begins.
The call: Describing what you found commits you to nothing. Nothing is booked until you say so.
Coverage: By town, not by region. Elma and the towns around it.

Where they get in around Elma

Most of Elma was built before 1950, and houses of that age share the same weak points. A The water line where it comes through the foundation wall. B A porch or a step that has settled away from the house. C The sill plate where old framing meets stone or block.

Those openings are small, which is why they get missed: a mouse needs about a quarter of an inch, and an ant needs far less. A technician starts there rather than at the baseboards, because treating what you can see does nothing about the way in.

What to say when you call

→What you saw and where in the home it turned up. A trail on a counter and one insect in a bathroom are different problems.
→When it started, and whether it is getting worse.
→What the ground around the house looks like — mulch, firewood, an irrigation line that runs wet. That is where the outside inspection starts.
→The address, so it reaches a technician working Howard County.

(888) 217-6291

Licensed Iowa technicians. No obligation for the call.

A technician kneels beside a house foundation and shines a flashlight into a crawl space vent.

What happens after the call

You say what you have seen and where in the home it turned up. That is usually enough to narrow it down on the phone.

A technician then inspects the property — inside, around the outside, and in the crawl space or attic where the sign usually starts. Identification comes before treatment, and the treatment is quoted before it begins.

Call (888) 217-6291

Licensed Iowa technicians. No obligation for the call.

What the call can cover

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Elma and the area around it

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Exterminators across Howard County, Iowa. One call covers the towns around Elma.