The 10-Step Defense System

A liquid insecticide barrier is applied around the full exterior perimeter of your home — along the foundation, entry points, and pest travel routes.

This is the baseline that most companies stop at. The perimeter spray kills and repels active pests on contact and creates a chemical barrier that works for weeks. But pests that are already inside, hiding in cracks, or entering through interior gaps are completely unaffected by a perimeter spray alone. That's why we always pair it with the remaining 9 steps.

Targeted insecticide is injected directly into cracks, gaps, and crevices — along baseboards, around plumbing penetrations, under appliances, inside cabinets, and in any gap where pests hide and breed.

German cockroaches, ants, silverfish, and many other pests live and breed deep inside cracks — not in open areas where a perimeter spray reaches. Without crack & crevice treatment, you can spray the exterior all day and still have a roach infestation in your kitchen walls. This step targets pests where they actually live.

Insecticide granules are broadcast around the foundation, landscaping beds, and yard — particularly in areas with mulch, gravel, or organic debris where pests nest.

Granules work differently than liquid sprays. They break down slowly, releasing insecticide over time as pests walk through them or as moisture activates the product. They create a long-lasting residual barrier in the yard that liquid sprays can't maintain. Critical for scorpion control, fire ant elimination, and stopping ground-level pests before they reach your foundation.

Gel bait stations are placed in key ant activity areas — along trails, near entry points, and inside problem areas. Worker ants carry the bait back to the colony, eliminating the queen and the entire nest.

Contact sprays kill the ants you can see but leave the colony intact underground. Within days the colony replenishes. Gel bait works by exploiting the colony's food-sharing behavior — the poison travels back through the entire nest. It's the only method that achieves true colony elimination rather than surface suppression.

Spider webs, egg sacs, and webbing are physically removed from eaves, windows, corners, garage doors, fences, and all exterior surfaces during every visit.

Active webs signal active spiders — including potentially dangerous black widows and brown recluses. Web removal eliminates egg sacs before they hatch (one egg sac can contain 200+ spiderlings), removes the visual sign of infestation, and disrupts spider territory so they abandon the area. It also removes the debris that attracts other insects that spiders feed on.

Mud dauber nests are physically removed from eaves, walls, window frames, garage doors, and any structure surface where they've been built.

Mud daubers are wasps that build clay tubes filled with paralyzed spiders as food for their larvae. While a single mud dauber is not aggressive, active nests attract other wasp species and the accumulation of nests can cause cosmetic damage and structural issues over time. Removal also disrupts the local spider population mud daubers prey on — and prey on.

Active wasp and hornet nests are treated and physically removed from eaves, overhangs, fences, trees, and any structure on the property.

Wasp nests left in place continue to grow — a small nest in spring becomes a colony of 1,000+ by late summer. Wasps near entry points are a direct safety risk, especially for children and pets. Removal prevents re-infestation of the same location and eliminates the immediate threat.

Every visit includes a visual inspection of the property for conducive conditions — moisture issues, wood-to-soil contact, entry points, harborage areas, and other conditions that attract or enable pests.

Pest control without inspection is just spraying chemicals and hoping for the best. As a company founded by Master Home Inspectors, we understand that pest problems are almost always caused by a building condition — a gap, a moisture source, a structural issue. We identify those conditions and give you specific recommendations so the problem doesn't keep coming back.

A trained visual inspection of the exterior foundation, eaves, wood members, and soil-contact areas for signs of termite activity — mud tubes, frass, damage, and conducive conditions.

El Paso has an active subterranean termite population. Most homeowners don't know they have termites until structural damage has already occurred. Catching early signs — a small mud tube, a suspicious moisture area — can save tens of thousands of dollars in repairs. We include this inspection at every visit because it costs nothing extra and can catch a major problem early.

A visual assessment of the exterior for gaps, penetrations, and entry points that rodents use to access the structure — evaporative cooler openings, weep holes, plumbing gaps, garage door seals, and utility penetrations.

A mouse can fit through a gap the size of a dime. Rats need only a quarter-size opening. In El Paso, evaporative coolers, aging stucco, and unscreened weep holes are among the most common rodent entry points. Identifying these on every visit means we catch new openings before they become active intrusions — and we can recommend exclusion before you have a full infestation.