Will my own bug sprays cancel out professional pest treatments?
Applying DIY products like CimeXa or boric acid before an exterminator arrives can cancel out the effectiveness of professional treatments like Aprehend. This overlap leaves people confused about whether a store-bought bug bomb is necessary, and pre-treating the house often frustrates pest control professionals when they arrive.
What people tried
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Will my own bug sprays cancel out professional pest treatments?
- 1Relying entirely on the professional's non-repellent spray and letting it work over timeDid this help you?
- 2Setting out monitoring traps instead of using chemical bombsDid this help you?
- 3Asking the technician about the specific chemicals they use to understand the processDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Should I do a home depot bug bomb or would the pest control treatment cover it?”source ↗
“I have applied cimexa like crazy over house. I was wanting pest guy to come in to treat aprehend. Will the cimexa cancel aprehend effectiveness?”source ↗
“I have applied cimexa like crazy over house. I was wanting pest guy to come in to treat aprehend. Will the cimexa cancel aprehend effectiveness?”source ↗
“He was visibly annoyed at the boric acid”source ↗
“Wait, I thought babies were a bad sign, like a signal of infestation”source ↗
Where this came up
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