In the hustle of everyday living, it’s easy to begin neglecting your home to the point where you accumulate unnecessary items like packaging, knicknacks, magazines, and paper (leaflets, flyers, letters). In short, clutter. Apart from making your home unsightly, clutter is unsanitary and  greatly increases the chance that you are giving pests a safe haven to live and breed in. It’s also not good for a home inspection.

Your living room and other public areas may be orderly, due to you being conscious of what guests may see when they pop in. But your attic, garage, basement, and even you bedroom may be accumulating clutter, which will attract unwanted insects and other creatures.

Pests that will thrive when your clutter becomes a mountain of useless garbage include cockroaches, ticks, bedbugs, flies, moths, mice, rats, lizards, ants, and spiders. Not a nice menagerie of fauna, by any description.

Bedbugs are …