Key Takeaways
Body Corporate Responsibilities: The body corporate is responsible for pest control in shared areas and ensures regular pest inspections, especially for termites.
Resident Responsibilities: Lot Owners are responsible for pest control and damage in their own units.
Preventative Maintenance: The body corporate should regularly look for leaks and remove rotting wood. They should also keep common areas clean.
Professional Inspections: The body corporate should schedule regular pest inspections to keep the property safe.
Clear Communication: A Strata manager should communicate clearly and regularly with residents about expectations and responsibilities in pest control.
Regular Inspections: Strata managers should conduct regular inspections of common areas.
Handle Infestations Immediately: All residents should know to report signs of pest activity to the strata manager immediately.
Trusted Termite Strata Pest Control: Your strata pest control technician needs to hold a valid PMT TP termite pest control license for trustworthiness.
In a communal building like a strata building, pests can quickly become a big problem. When pests make their way from one person’s home to another’s, or they show up in a shared area, it’s difficult for everyone concerned to know what they can do about the problem, even without the added headache of strata rules and regulations. Who do you contact? What are you allowed to do? What are your responsibilities, and what are you not allowed to do? It’s easy to get confused. That’s why we’ve put together our guide to pest control for strata and body corporates.
Key Responsibilities and Strategies:
Body Corporate Responsibilities (Common Property):
The Body Corporate is responsible for pest control in shared areas of the Northern Beaches strata property, including foyers, stairwells, gardens, and roofs. The Body Corporate is also responsible for termite inspections, which are very important for the building’s structural integrity, as termites can pose a significant problem in a communal building.
Resident Responsibilities (Individual Unit):
The Lot Owner is responsible for any pest management necessary in their own unit. They’re also responsible for any damage caused by negligence, so it pays to be proactive about strata pest control in North Shore.
Preventative Maintenance:
As the main person responsible for the Sydney, Northern Beaches, or North Shore property, the Body Corporate should regularly check all areas of the strata property for leaks. If residents report any leaks or water problems, organising maintenance should be at the top of your list. You should also quickly remove any rotting wood and make sure rubbish bins in common areas are regularly cleared.
If you store wood on the North Shore strata property, make sure it isn’t stored directly against the property. Wood can be a gateway for pests to start venturing along a property’s walls into windows, doors, cracks, and vents, even beginning to create their own cracks and damage.
Food left out is also a feast for many pests. So, if you have a shared barbeque area or garden in your Northern Beaches property, make sure everyone cleans up the food scraps here, too. You could add a secure compost bin so that everyone has a convenient place to put those tantalising scraps, keeping them away from potential pests.
Professional Inspections:
Regular pest inspections are important if you want to catch pest infestations early, long before insects and rodents create irreversible damage to your Sydney property. Schedule quarterly or annual professional pest inspections with a trusted strata pest control technician and keep on top of your North Shore building’s needs.
Clear Communication:
The best way to prevent major pest problems is to ensure you maintain clear communication with your Sydney strata residents. Residents should know exactly what they are allowed to do and what they should do to keep their Northern Beaches home and communal areas clean, tidy, and pest-free.
Regular Inspections:
It’s also important that the North Shore strata manager themselves regularly inspect the common areas of the strata property. A strata manager has the knowledge to pinpoint entry points and track activity in these areas over time.
Handle Infestations Immediately:
When anyone notices signs of pest activity in the common areas of their Sydney home, they should contact the strata manager immediately. A good strata manager will arrange professional strata pest control from a trusted Northern Beaches pest control service like Everest Pest Control right away.
Trusted termite strata pest control
Termites are a major hazard in strata pest control. It’s not just the massive structural damage the insects cause in their search for food, but also the allergies and health issues they exacerbate across the North Shore. But termite pest control is specialised work. That’s why you need a strata pest control technician you can trust.
Before you start any termite pest control with your technician, be sure to check that your technician holds a fully valid termite inspection license. Some people who offer termite strata pest control inspections don’t have the proper required license. Your pest control technician should have a license with a number followed by “PMT TP”, standing for Pest Management Technician, Timber Pest. This number indicates that your technician has full Timber Pest qualifications. So, always verify that the licence is current and properly accredited.
Whether it’s Strata pest control or any other eco-friendly pest control you need, contact Everest Pest Control for natural pest control technicians you can trust. Our team of fully licensed professional exterminators will use safe, effective, non-toxic modern pest control methods to keep you, your residents and pets safe at every step. You are in safe hands with proper health standards-compliant strata pest control methods for every property and the most effective methods for every pest in the Northern Beaches, North Shore, and Sydney.