When it comes to protecting your items from pests, there are numerous ways to go about accomplishing the task. However, when your items are in a self-storage unit, this does not mean you can always easily access them. Saving your items in your self storage unit from the onslaught of pests means going the extra mile and taking some preventative measures, as well. Throughout the course of this brief article, you will learn about four specific ways to protect your self storage unit from pests like mice and roaches.

Seals

It is imperative that you ensure that your self storage unit has a water and airtight seal placed across its entry ways. You should discuss this matter with the landlord of your storage unit to see if he or she will or can provide such measures for your storage unit; if not, then see if it is acceptable if you provide your own air and watertight seals for your storage unit. These seals are generally quite inexpensive and will make it difficult for larger pests, such as rodents like mice and rats, to invade your storage unit. Even some insects will find it difficult to reach your precious belongings with such measures installed.

Keep Plants Away From Units

Your storage units were not meant to house any sort of foliage, so keep everything green out of sight from your storage unit. Plants can easily house a number of pests that you were not expecting; this includes everything from insects (such as roaches) to spiders and rodents (particularly mice). Furthermore, even if the plant in question did not house such pests, the presence of foliage can attract pests into your storage unit and provides them with an excellent home where moisture and darkness can provide an adequate sense of belonging to such pests. 

Get Rid Of Moisture

Moisture acts as an impetus to allow pests to invade your home. Insects are very fond of moisture and will seek out places with moisture in order to find a home to make for themselves. Take the time to remove as much moisture as you can from the area surrounding your self storage unit. This means ensuring that the gutters are quite clean along the area around your storage unit, and the downspout from the gutter (from which water flows) is provided to an area that is not particularly close to your storage unit. Make sure that everything in your unit is tightly sealed such that moisture cannot find a place to rest on your belongings.

Keep Your Unit Clean

One of the biggest attractions that your storage unit provides to pests is a source of food. Pests generally do not consider the cleanliness of a home situation to be an issue at all; in fact, the dirtier an area, the more likely they are to find food scraps, crumbs, and the like. As such, it is imperative that you keep your storage unit as clean as possible. Take the time to remove any and all garbage that has collected in your storage unit and remember that your storage unit is not a receptacle for trash! Properly store trash outside of the unit. Make sure that all furniture that is stored in the unit has been properly cleaned and covered in order to curb the presence of pests.

Keeping your storage unit free of pests is not a particularly difficult task. It will take some work on your behalf, but hopefully, this brief article has given you some idea of how to rid your storage unit of anything that can attract those bothersome beasts!

For more information about storage, contact a company like National Self Storage - Denver.

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