Nothing is worse than owning a hotel or motel and having the customer tell you that the room has fleas. This does not bode well for your reputation. Or having fleas jump off of your clothing rack or appear where your customers eat.
Since fleas live on animals and need to drink their blood to lay eggs they can transport themselves to your place of business if you allow pets into your business.
If you discover that your place of business has fleas there are many things that you can do.
Since the pet has already come and gone you cannot treat the animal in this case but you can treat the area where the pet was and where the complaint was made.
You will have to clean everything in the room. Wash any clothes, vacuum all of the carpets and furniture, and sweep and disinfect/mop all non-carpeted floors. This should be done at a time where no customers will be entering the place for a few hours.
A residual treatment combined with an insect growth regulator should be applied by a professional like OHA Pest Solutions.
Even if you have a business that does not allow pets inside fleas can still jump off of the pets while they are waiting outside and come inside by another means.
Since they don’t fly but can jump very far it is not uncommon for them to hitch a ride by another means.
To help fleas from hanging around outside of your business you can make sure that the lawn is cut on a regular basis and never allowed to get long. Another thing that you can do is put up a fence around your business property to keep stray animals from wandering in and delivering fleas. Since the lifespan of a flea from egg to an adult can take up to several months this gives them time to repopulate from a stray animal to one of your customer’s pets and if the customer suspects their pet picked up fleas from your business they will not be happy.
Thankfully fleas are not a large concern for businesses except for motels and hotels that allow pets, shelters, and pet grooming places.
If you have a business that has fleas and you cannot keep up with getting rid of them or are concerned that you want the job done right before a customer notices feel free to contact us today to evaluate the situation and take care of the problem with the newest products out there to get rid of them and keep them from coming back!