If you’ve read the standard advice on pet-safe pest control — remove food bowls, keep pets off treated surfaces, wait for everything to dry — that’s all accurate. But it’s written for a suburban house, not a pre-war Brooklyn brownstone or a six-floor Queens apartment building.
In New York City, pests travel. They move through shared walls, pipe chases, and the gaps around utility lines that connect your unit to the one next door. A pet owner in Flatbush or Bed-Stuy who has done everything right can still end up with a flea infestation because a neighbor’s untreated pet brought them into the building. That’s not a hypothetical — it’s a call we get regularly.
Our approach accounts for this. We inspect entry points, not just the visible infestation. We seal gaps where pests re-enter. And when we work in multi-unit buildings, we understand how to treat one unit in a way that doesn’t just push the problem down the hall. We’ve been doing this in New York City’s specific housing stock — the pre-war buildings, the high-rises, the brownstones — since 1971. That experience matters when the building itself is part of the problem.