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Gas Appliance Service guide
Gas appliance service covers the fuel-burning equipment around a home other than the main furnace or boiler: gas ranges and cooktops, clothes dryers, tank and tankless water heaters, vented space and garage heaters,…
7 min readSeptember 10, 2026 - Guide
Pest Control guide
Pest control, often called extermination, deals with the animals that move into homes uninvited: mice and rats looking for warmth in the fall, ants and cockroaches drawn to food and moisture, bed bugs carried in on…
7 min readSeptember 10, 2026 - Guide
Bed Bugs guide
Bed bugs are small, flat insects that feed on human blood at night and spend the day tucked into seams, cracks and furniture close to where people sleep.
7 min readSeptember 10, 2026 - Guide
Ants guide
Ants are among the insects Canadians most often find indoors, usually as a line of workers running from a crack at the foundation to a crumb on the counter.
7 min readSeptember 10, 2026 - Guide
Cockroaches guide
Cockroaches are the pest most closely tied to apartment living in Canada. They thrive in warm, damp kitchens and bathrooms, hide in cracks by day and come out at night, and move between units through the wall cavities,…
6 min readSeptember 10, 2026 - Guide
Wasps & Bees guide
Wasps and bees get lumped together, but they call for very different responses. Yellowjackets, hornets and paper wasps build papery nests under eaves, in sheds, inside wall cavities and in the ground, and as a colony…
7 min readSeptember 10, 2026 - Guide
Rodents guide
Rodent control deals with the mice and rats that come indoors for food, water and shelter, most often as the weather cools in the fall.
7 min readSeptember 10, 2026 - Guide
Mice guide
Mice are the rodent Canadian homeowners deal with most, and they are small and secretive enough to live in a house for a while before anyone sees one.
8 min readSeptember 10, 2026 - Guide
Rats guide
Rats are a bigger and more stubborn problem than mice. They are larger, wary of anything new in their path, and they usually live outside and come in: burrowing along foundations, under decks and sheds and in overgrown…
7 min readSeptember 10, 2026 - Guide
Termites guide
Termites are an unusual pest in Canada: most homeowners never deal with them, but in parts of Ontario they are an established, long-term problem.
7 min readSeptember 10, 2026 - Guide
Wildlife Removal guide
Wildlife removal deals with the animals that move into the parts of a house people rarely see: raccoons in the attic or chimney, squirrels in soffits and wall cavities, skunks under decks and porches, bats in the attic…
7 min readSeptember 10, 2026 - Guide
Raccoons guide
Raccoons are the heaviest and most destructive of the animals that move into Canadian houses. A raccoon can pull up a roof vent, peel back shingles or soffit panels, and settle into an attic or an uncapped chimney,…
7 min readSeptember 10, 2026
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