No one likes pests in their storage unit. When pests get into your customers' units, the ultimate results will probably be upset customers and bad review for your storage facility. So, what can you do to protect your facility from summertime pests? Let's find out.

1. STOREDGE
QUICK TIPS
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR STORAGE
FACILITY FROM SUMMERTIME PESTS

2. NO ONE LIKES PESTS IN THEIR STORAGE UNIT
1. They’re icky.
2. They can cause an infinite amount of damage to stored goods.
When pests get into your property’s units, the ultimate results will
probably be upset customers and bad reviews for your storage facility.
So, what can you do to protect your facility from summertime pests?
Let’s find out.
WHY?

3. It’s always better to be proactive. Depending on the type of pest issue
you’re trying to control, there are certain steps you can take to fend
them off from the start. We’ll cover prevention techniques for...
PREVENTING PESTS IS BETTER THAN REMOVING THEM
1. Rodents
2. Spiders
3. Cockroaches
4. Ants

4. Feral cats can creep out customers and carry rabies. Raccoons can
cause a big, nasty mess of trash around your facility.
Yet the most destructive mammal to your property is the mouse. Mice
will likely chew through tasty things like boxes, furniture, and antiques.
It’s best to keep furry woodland creatures of all kinds away from your
facility’s premises.
1. RODENTS

5. HOW TO REPEL RODENTS
1. Keep trash cans away from your storage units. Change trash bags
often and ensure the can lids are always sealed.
2. In vacant or recently vacated units, make sure the floors are well
swept, and then use products like d-CON bait blocks and Contrac
“Rodenticide.”
3. Be sure tenants know not to store food of any kind, including any
crumbs on their stored furniture. Everything should be vacuumed and
cleaned before being placed inside a storage unit.
4. Sell mice bait in your office store for customers to purchase.
5. Use mouse traps outside and around storage units.

6. Poisonous brown recluses or black widow spiders can hide in cracks
and crevices. They also like to hide in cardboard boxes, so storage
units can be a hotspot of spider activity.
If you have other bug problems, arachnids can be attracted to those
as a food source.
2. SPIDERS

7. HOW TO REPEL SPIDERS
1. Make sure your storage units are properly sealed.
2. Take action to rid your facility of other insects.
3. Use a spider spray around the door or any other potential openings
of storage units.

8. Cockroaches love the darkness, the heat, and cardboard boxes. The
environment created inside of storage units is their own personal El
Dorado.
If a new customer happens to accidentally bring some roaches in with
them, they could infest the surrounding areas (including your onsite
manager’s house!)
3. COCKROACHES

9. 1. Spray insecticide or powder (like Roach Prufe) before a new
customer moves in.
2. After an infestation, use boric acid since it works well and is mostly
nontoxic to humans.
3. If problems persist, seek out roach-killing bait or hire a professional
to spray the area.
HOW TO REPEL COCKROACHES

10. Ants present their own set of issues. You have to destroy the nest
(most importantly, the child-bearing queen) to destroy the worker
ants who keep coming back to forge for food.
Taking down the whole colony is essential to preventing the problem
from coming right back.
4. ANTS

11. HOW TO REPEL ANTS
1. Place bait for the worker ants to bring back to their queen.
2. You can buy pre-mixed options like Terro Liquid Ant Bait.
3. Or you can make your own 50/50 mixture of boric acid and sugar.

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