Commercial Pest Control on Long Island

Every commercial account runs on the same four steps.

1. Inspection of the whole property. Not just the room where someone saw something. Kitchens, storage, basements, trash areas, loading doors, common areas and the outside of the building. Pests move, so the inspection has to cover where they can go, not only where they were seen.
2. Targeted treatment. Bait, crack and crevice treatment and rodent stations, placed where activity shows. Treatment goes where the pests live, not across open surfaces where people work and eat.
3. A visit schedule matched to pest pressure. Weekly while activity is active, every other week as it drops, monthly once it stops. If activity comes back, the schedule goes back up. You are not locked into a frequency that no longer fits.
4. A written record of every visit. What was inspected, what was found, what was done, and what your staff should fix before the next visit. It goes in your file.

The staff notes are the part that makes the program work. Pest control handles the pests that are there. The business handles the conditions that keep bringing them back: cardboard left in storage, drips under sinks, a back door propped open. When both sides do their part, visits get quieter and the schedule steps down.

Recurring service also changes what an inspection day feels like. When a health inspector, a property manager or a corporate auditor walks through, you are not hoping the last spray held. You have a schedule, a set of stations that get checked, and a stack of visit records that show the work has been steady. That is the difference between reacting to pests and managing them.

Every program starts with a free quote. We look at the property, tell you what we see and recommend a starting schedule. The number on the invoice matches the quote.

Food service in New York is inspected against the state sanitary code. Section 14-1.160 says the premises are to be free of insects, rodents, harborage and breeding conditions, that openings to the outside are to be protected, and that pesticides are not a substitute for proper sanitation. In the city, the health department scores evidence of rats, evidence of mice, live roaches and filth flies as separate violations, and its pest-proofing guidance says every food service establishment must contract with a DEC licensed pest management company. Suffolk County's food protection program runs unannounced inspections and lists major vermin infestation among the conditions that can close an establishment.

For apartment buildings in the city, HPD's indoor allergen rules require owners of buildings with three or more units to keep apartments free of mold and pests, to use integrated pest management, and to have any pesticide applied by a DEC licensed professional.

We pulled the state inspection data: about 1 in 7 Nassau County records cites insects or rodents.

We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice. It is the set of rules we build commercial service plans around, so an inspection is a formality. The sources are listed at the bottom of this page.

New York takes pesticide records seriously. Under Environmental Conservation Law 33-1205, commercial applicators must log every application, including:

• The product and its EPA registration number.
• The amount used.
• The date and the address.
• The dosage, the method of application and the target pest.

Those records are kept for at least three years. When a health inspector, a landlord, a board or a corporate office asks what has been done, the business with a copy of every visit record has the answer in its file. We provide that record after every visit.

Service is handled by a NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator, certification C1825832. Treatments carry written guarantees as listed on our services page.

• German cockroaches. German cockroach profile and cockroach service.
• American cockroaches. Handled under our cockroach service.
• Mice. House mouse profile and mouse service.
• Rats. Norway rat profile and rat service.
• Ants. Ant profile and ant service.
• Pantry pests. Pantry moth and beetle profile and pantry pest service.
• Wasps. Yellowjacket and hornet profile and wasp and hornet service.

Not sure what you are looking at? Send a photo through the quote form, or call (516) 509-6001 and describe it.

We are local to Long Island and serve businesses in all four of our areas: Nassau County, Suffolk County, Queens and the Bronx. Visits are scheduled Monday through Sunday, 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., before or after you open, whichever works for your business.

Where we serve the most commercial accounts: Huntington, Patchogue, Port Jefferson, Great Neck, Garden City, Rockville Centre, Bay Shore, Long Beach, Astoria and Flushing.

If you manage properties in more than one area, one call covers all of them. A restaurant group with locations in Nassau and Queens, or a landlord with buildings in Suffolk and the Bronx, gets one point of contact, one program and one set of records for every site. Call (516) 509-6001 to get started.