Shelby County · Iowa

Pest control in Portsmouth, IA

Seen a trail of ants along a counter, 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 Portsmouth and deal with it.

(888) 217-6291

Licensed Iowa technicians. No obligation for the call.

Section through a house—built the 1950s, as most of Portsmouth was

Acrawl spacevent
Bdryer ventleaves wall
Cwater lineenters
—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. Portsmouth and the towns around it.

Where they get in around Portsmouth

Portsmouth is largely housing from the 1950s, and homes of that period share a predictable set of openings: A crawl space vents with torn screen, B the gap where the dryer vent leaves the wall, and C the point where the main water line enters.

A garage below the living space closes the list. A technician works that outside line first, then works inward to where you saw the problem.

What to say when you call

→What it looked like and which room it was in. 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. The outside inspection starts there.
→The address, so it reaches a technician working Shelby 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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Portsmouth and the area around it

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Exterminators across Shelby County, Iowa. The same call covers the towns around Portsmouth.