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What is active right now
Almost everything in this trade is a timing problem, so almost everything here is dated. What is active in Simcoe County this month, what is coming in the next one, and which jobs are cheaper to book early than to react to.
- Property standards by-law and pests Barrie By-law 2011-138 requires a building to be kept reasonably free of rodents, vermin and insects, and requires the openings to be sealed. Read it →
- Bed bug bites A bed bug bite can take as long as 14 days to appear, so it cannot date anything. What to look for in a Barrie bedroom instead, and the local look-alike. Read it →
- Seal in August, not October By the time you hear something behind the stove it is October and the mice are in. The work that ends it is exclusion, and exclusion is a summer job. Read it →
- Peak wasp season, and when to leave it Colonies peak in size and aggression in August and September. Some nests genuinely need removing now. Others die at the first frost, and can be left. Read it →
- Renting — who pays for pest control Ontario's Residential Tenancies Act puts pest control inside the landlord's repair obligation. What decides the outcome in practice is how you report it. Read it →
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Talk to a Barrie exterminator
Describe what you have seen and roughly when it started. Half the time the useful answer is which month to book rather than a treatment this week, and we will say so on the phone before anyone takes a booking.