When dealing with vermin sharing your house, it can be tempting to try fighting the problem yourself—in the effort to save money rather than doling hundreds of dollars hiring a pest control exterminator. However, the opposite of this ends up being true most of the time, and if it’s hard to believe DIY isn’t the way, here are a few reasons to hire an exterminator instead to ensure the little pests go away and never come back.

The Pros Can Find the Source Faster
Having been trained for this work (and ideally acquired many years’ experience), exterminators can find an infestation’s source more effectively than someone just visiting this type of issue. As professionals, they also understand the behavior of many different pests and can use that knowledge to find them and attack the source with treatments and equipment laymen simply cannot obtain.
The Pros Avoid Damage and Wasting Time
As sound tradesmen, exterminators can provide a quick pest removal but also do it without causing damage to any furniture, carpets, clothing, home foundations, floors, walls, and much more. Doing it yourself can lead to spending more money replacing things you didn’t know you were damaging. As well, one’s lack of experience can turn a one or two-day job into months and months of constant respraying and annoyance.
The Pros Have Children and Pet Pesticides
Though you may google pesticides before you buy them yourself, many store-bought pesticides are often not especially safe for children (or pets), unlike those carried by pest control professionals. If these pesticides are inhaled by young children (or even adults), they can cause harm—as well, the scent of most store-bought pesticides are unpleasant and will often permeate a household. Not exactly what you want your guests or family members to smell!
The Pros Can Identify Specific Pests
While most identify pests in their home as “pests” or “vermin,” exterminators are educated enough to not only identify specific pests but also their behavior patterns and determining the treatment best to find them and keep them out for good. With that knowledge, a professional pest control exterminator can develop a plan to solve your specific problem quickly without forcing you to endure more months of unwelcome vermin in your home.