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Pest Control · Milton
Raccoons, squirrels, mice, wasps, ants and bed bugs. Escarpment Pest & Wildlife will find where they are getting in, treat it properly, and seal it so it stays fixed.
Serving Milton
About us
Escarpment Pest & Wildlife started out doing raccoon and squirrel calls in the evenings and turned it into a full-time licensed operation. The approach has not changed: find out how they got in, deal with the ones already there humanely and by the label, and then seal the house so it does not happen again. Every technician carries an Ontario exterminator licence, every product is registered with Health Canada, and we would rather explain what we are doing and why than leave you guessing about what got sprayed in your kitchen.
What we do
Big jobs and small ones, across Milton and the surrounding area.
A one-way door goes over the entry point so the animal lets itself out and cannot get back in, and any babies are lifted out by hand and left in a heated reunion box for the mother to carry off. Everything is done under Ontario's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, which rules out relocating animals across town, and the hole is sealed with screened steel the same day.
Inside, snap traps and monitors go where the droppings actually are; outside, locked tamper-resistant bait stations that a dog or a toddler cannot get into. Then the part most people skip: weep vents, garage door gaps and the hole around the air conditioner line get sealed with copper mesh and sealant so the next family cannot walk in behind the last one.
Yellowjacket, bald-faced hornet and paper wasp nests treated at dusk when the colony is home, whether it hangs in a tree, sits in a soffit or is down a hole in the lawn. A nest inside a wall gets dusted at the entrance rather than sprayed and sealed, because blocking an active nest sends the wasps chewing through the drywall into the house.
Carpenter ants mean there is damp wood somewhere, so we find the parent colony — a deck ledger, a window sill, the wall behind a leaking tub — instead of spraying the trail across the kitchen counter. Health Canada-registered gel baits and non-repellent residuals do the work, and we tell you what to dry out so they do not come back next spring.
A proper inspection first, then heat treatment or a scheduled program using products registered with Health Canada, with a prep sheet that says exactly what to bag, what to wash and what to leave alone. Follow-up visits about two weeks apart catch anything that hatched after the first round, and it is not called done until an inspection comes up clean.
German cockroaches in kitchens and multi-unit buildings treated with gel baits and insect growth regulators placed in the cracks where they live, not fogged into the open air. Neighbouring units get inspected as well, because treating one apartment in a building of forty is how the problem keeps coming back.
Bats are protected in Ontario, so they are excluded with one-way devices outside the summer maternity season, never trapped or poisoned, and every gap wider than a centimetre gets sealed afterward. Pigeons, starlings and sparrows are kept out of vents, soffits and signage with netting, screening and spikes fitted where they cannot be seen from the street.
A top-to-bottom look at how animals and insects get into your house, with roof vents, soffit returns, foundation gaps and utility penetrations screened and sealed before anything moves in. Seasonal perimeter visits for ants, spiders, earwigs and mice, for people who would rather not meet us during an emergency.
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FAQ
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Everything we use is registered with Health Canada and applied by a licensed exterminator according to the label, which spells out where it can go and how long to stay out of the room. Most of what we do is gel bait tucked into cracks, dust inside wall voids, and locked bait stations outside, none of which a child or dog can reach. Heat treatment for bed bugs uses no chemicals at all. We tell you the re-entry time before we start, and it is usually a few hours, not days.
No. The animal leaves on its own through a one-way door and cannot get back in, and babies are removed by hand and set out for the mother to move. Ontario law says trapped wildlife has to be released within a kilometre of where it was caught, so driving a raccoon out to the country is both illegal and pointless. Sealing the house is what actually solves it, and that is where most of the work goes.
Because something is still open. A mouse gets through a gap the width of a pencil, so poison alone just makes room for the next ones. We find the weep vents, the gap under the garage door, the hole around the air conditioner line, and the space where the siding meets the foundation, and we close them with steel mesh and sealant. Once the house is sealed, a couple of traps in the garage is usually all the ongoing effort it needs.
Heat is normally one long day and the room is treated in a single visit. A chemical program is usually two or three visits about two weeks apart, because eggs laid before the first treatment hatch afterward and need to be caught. You get a prep sheet before we come, and following it is most of what decides whether it works. In a rental in Ontario the treatment is generally the landlord's responsibility and the preparation is the tenant's, and we will work with either.
A small paper wasp nest under an eave, at dusk, with a can from the hardware store, is usually fine. The dangerous ones are ground nests, nests inside a wall or soffit, and bald-faced hornets, which will come out in numbers at anyone near them. Never plug the hole into a wall nest, because the wasps will chew their way into the house. If you are unsure, or anyone in the house is allergic, send us a photo and let us look at it.
Insect treatments are priced by the pest and the size of the home, and wildlife jobs by the number of entry points and how much roofline needs sealing, so we quote after an inspection rather than guessing over the phone. Treatments come with a written warranty period, and if the pest is back inside it we come back at no charge. Wildlife exclusion work is warrantied on the areas we sealed.
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