Shasta County · California

Pest control in Platina, CA

Noticed something crawling after dark, or marks you cannot place? Say what you have found and where in the home it turned up, and a licensed exterminator can come out to Platina and deal with it.

(888) 217-6291

Licensed California technicians. No obligation for the call.

Section through a house—built the 1980s, as most of Platina was

Adryer ventleaves wall
Bdoor sillat the step
Cbrick weepholes

License: Held by the contractor and issued in California. Ask which name it is held under — a trading name and the licensed entity are often not the same.
Price: What the pest is, what the treatment involves, how many visits it takes and what it costs — explained before any work begins.
The call: Describing what you found commits you to nothing. Nothing is booked until you say so.
Coverage: By town, not by region. Platina and the towns around it.

Where they get in around Platina

Platina is small enough that the census reports it only as part of Shasta County, so the housing around it looks like the county as a whole.

A large part of Shasta County was built in the 1980s. Homes from those years are tight enough that the obvious gaps were closed at construction, so what is left is smaller and less visible.

What remains is A utility penetrations under a sink or behind a washer, B the rubber seal at the bottom of the garage door, and C weep holes in brick veneer that were never screened. A technician checks those before anything is sprayed.

What to say when you call

→What you saw and where in the home it turned up. A trail along a counter and a single insect in a bathroom point at different things.
→When it started, and whether it is getting worse.
→Whether you rent. Almost every home in Platina are rented, and a rental visit is usually booked by whoever owns the building — that changes who signs and when the visit lands.
→What the ground around the house looks like — mulch, firewood, an irrigation line that runs wet. The outside inspection starts there.
→Your address, so the call goes to a technician covering Shasta County.

(888) 217-6291

Licensed California technicians. No obligation for the call.

A technician kneels beside a house foundation and shines a flashlight into a crawl space vent.

What happens after the call

You say what you have seen and where in the home it turned up. That is usually enough to narrow it down on the phone.

A technician then inspects the property — inside, around the outside, and in the crawl space or attic where the sign usually starts. Identification comes before treatment, and the treatment is quoted before it begins.

Call (888) 217-6291

Licensed California technicians. No obligation for the call.

What the call can cover

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Platina and the area around it

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Exterminators across Shasta County, California. One call covers the towns around Platina.