Is professional pest control worth the high cost?
Professional pest extermination quotes can cost thousands of dollars, leaving homeowners unsure whether to pay for the service or attempt DIY removal and cleaning themselves. This uncertainty makes it difficult to decide whether hiring an exterminator is actually worth the price compared to doing the work manually.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1DIY pest control
- 2hiring professional exterminators
- 3Checking if entry points were found and sealed
- 4Trying to identify whether droppings belong to mice or lizards
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“The quote for dealing with them was about 2k and I wanna know if we should deal with them ourselves or do the 2k”source ↗
“We're wondering if it's worth hiring pest control and maybe someone to clean the droppings.”source ↗
Where this came up
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