When you manage a building, whether it’s a hospital, an apartment building, an office building, or any other structure that has a lot of areas to focus on, you may understand that the trash areas are hotbeds for pests, bacteria, and foul odors. Those spots are seen, after all. But what you can’t see can hurt you when it comes to trash chutes.
Who is shining a flashlight down into the trash chutes in your building? Who is even noticing the grease, grime, and food that builds up on the door to and the walls of the trash chutes? Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. All you need to do is take a whiff. The smells are certainly there. And if you can smell it, so can your residents, your guests, your tenants… and of course, so can the pests.
So, not only will the smells that come from the breakdown of the food and waste in your trash chute, hopper rooms, and compactors cause complaints and even could lose you some revenue (people move out if the building isn’t taken care of), but it’s also creating a welcome sign to pests like flies, rats, mice, and cockroaches. And once they’re there, the pests will stay for not only all the food and moisture the grease and grime provide, but the ideal breeding grounds that waste provides. Once flies and other pests start breeding, not only can they be difficult to control, but they also have direct access to your hallways – the trash chute again! Once they climb up the chute and make their way into the hallways, they won’t stop there. They will have access to the rest of your building, including apartments, offices, etc. The infestation can go from bad to worse very quickly.
There is a solution. The Western Pest Services new Trash Chute Cleaning Program is a simple yet brilliant way to take care of not only the residue and bacteria in the chute, hopper, and compactor, but also the odors that come with it. The team at Western has extensive experience keeping apartment buildings free from pests. So, when they saw the pest and sanitation problems trash chutes naturally create, they started to research a strategy to take care of them. The Trash Chute Cleaning Program was born out of necessity, but it works out of experience and expertise.
The Western Trash Chute Cleaning Program is a comprehensive sanitation and deodorization service that uses professional-grade cleaning agents to get rid of the grease and grime that will accumulate on the chute walls and door, as well as in the hopper and compactor. The application method and products they use are safe and effective at dealing with the grime, stopping the bacteria that could grow if left untreated, and disrupting the breeding grounds pests like rodents, flies, and cockroaches find so attractive.
And those odors that come with the waste in the trash chute? Western thought of a solution for that, too. Not only does cleaning those areas help take care of the smells that attract pests and detract residents, but the technician adds a fresh citrus scent during the cleaning. You can even choose to have them install and maintain malodor elimination equipment in the compactor and hopper rooms. This doesn’t just help control pests – it actually improves the air quality in hallways and service areas. Resident complaints about foul smells should go down if not disappear entirely. They will even come out to perform a free inspection to assess the current conditions of your trash chute to see if you even need the service. Remember, this is an all-to-often overlooked area, so just having an inspection done is a step in the right direction.
You have choices. But, when you bring in Western Pest Services, you’re getting almost a century of pest control knowledge and expertise. All our services are backed by our Board Certified Entomologist and the Trash Chute Cleaning Program is no exception. And if we’re already your pest control partner, we already know your building. The learning curve will be almost zero! And if we don’t, we can provide a free assessment of your current pest control plan and provide suggested improvements. But the most important reason to bring in Western Pest Services is that we partner with you. Of course, we can provide you with expert pest control and innovative solutions like remote pest monitoring, proactive bed bug programs, and, of course, a trash chute cleaning program, but what we’re most proud of are the relationships we form with our customers. We’re part of the team. Contact us today to get started and take care of those trash chutes – and the pests that can breed in them.