MISS SAGE LLC
ST PETERSBURG, FLORIDA

WE PROVIDE FREE INSPECTIONS & PEST ID. WE PROVIDE FREE INSPECTIONS & PEST ID. WE PROVIDE FREE INSPECTIONS & PEST ID. . Reproductive termites called swarmers take flight to create new colonies. Subterranean termites typically swarm in the spring, whereas drywood swarms are less predictable. If you see a swarm of insects there’s a good probability you might have an infestation inside your home. Other signs include: Subterranean termites build mud tubes on surfaces, such as a home’s foundation, to provide moisture while they are searching for food. The short answer is that the products used by Safer Home Services will not hurt your pets or your children. There are three reasons for this: 1) we use organic, natural and safe ingredients whenever we can, 2) we never spray insecticides inside your home’s living spaces, and 3) we primarily use attractive baits rather than contact insecticides, and the baits are placed where only the bugs can get to them and well away from your kids and pets. Yes. The products we use are all environmentally approved, with many of them approved for agricultural use. And this is especially the case with our attractive baits, that keep the product contained and only ever in contact with the intended insects. If you already have cockroaches inside your home, the best way to get rid of them is to vacuum them up with a HEPA fitlered bug vac like the kind carried by Safer Home Services Technicians. You then want to check all of the normal harborage areas inside the home and, where appropriate, leave attractive baits for them. THEN you want to block all of the infiltration points that the cockroaches are using to get into you home, so you can lock them out using strategic placement of baits, boric acid, and scientifically prescribed product. Finally, you will want to look for harborage areas for the roaches out in your yard and “take the fight to them” using source technology. – For much of the last century the most common approach was hiring a company to come monthly and spray insecticides on your baseboards. And a lot of companies still use this approach today. The advantages of monthly baseboard spraying are mostly for the company doing it: it doesn’t cost much to deliver it because you use cheap chemicals and you don’t have to invest money training your technicians. The disadvantages are obvious. Monthly service doesn’t work very well – that’s why they have to keep coming back every month. Monthly spraying inside your home can stain and damage walls, floors, and furnishings and exposing yourself, your family, and your pets monthly to insecticides that are applied openly cannot be healthy. – Quarterly service or 4 X a year service may be the most common pest control service provided over the last 30 years. Most companies perform an initial interior service then come back every three months and spray the exterior of the home. While this service may be adequate in areas of the country where there is little pest pressure, it doesn’t work as well in a tropical location like Florida. Plus many of the most common pest problems we face are problems inside the home and simply spraying chemicals outside won’t address them. There is much to learn about Safer Home Services. Can you name any other home services company with a “Brain Trust” — one that has not one, but two entomology majors, one with a no-kidding PhD? Phil, referred to by his colleagues as “Doc”, began his career in the classroom, while working to complete his doctorate in Entomology. After a quick tour as a high school teacher of Advanced Biology and Chemistry, Doc ventured into the corporate world as a business owner and employee for large and midsize pest control and turf companies. He has since spent his career bringing scientific improvements and rigor to the industry. But Chuck is far more than just a scientist, he’s also a business man. Having been successful in the Pest Control Industry, Chuck took his Once-A-Year Pest Protection strategy and revolutionized the industry with it by creating and running Sears Authorized Termite & Pest Control, which would grow to become one of the largest pest control companies in the United States. Mr. Steinmetz also founded and ran Middleton Lawn & Pest Control, which would grow to become one of the largest companies in Florida. Jim has been in the Pest and Termite Control business in Florida and Texas for 30 years — pretty much all of his adult life. And all of his life, Jim has been an environmentalist. From his early days hunting & fishing in the mountains of Pennsylvania to his years spent on the open ocean and coastal estuary systems, Jim has always been in tune with our environment. Who better to lead a company that protects peoples’ homes, health, and property but always with a concern on how what they do impacts the environment? Jim started out as a field technician and has personally protected thousands of Florida families and their homes from dangerous pests and termites. In fact, it was as a field technician and then a manager of techs that Jim became a protege of Chuck Steinmetz’s at Sears and Middleton. So when Chuck took the reins at Sears and began his once-a-year revolution, he brought Jim along and had him work with Doc Nichols to train and manage the field techs who would deliver the revolutionary Once-A-Year Pest Control service. Jim would grow in that role to lead all of the Sears Authorized Termite & Pest Control teams west of the Mississippi. Later, Jim would re-join Chuck at Middleton Lawn & Pest Control as their Director of Training & Leadership Development. Since that time, Jim has held numerous senior and executive positions in top-tiered pest control companies, but has long wanted to bring the training rigor and scientific know-how of the Sears and Middleton’s years back to the pest control industry. And that’s when he decided to start Safer Home Services. 1. We only hire sharp people — people we’d be comfortable inviting into our own homes. Our techs are highly rated on Angie’s list and HomeAdvisor. The one thing people enjoy most about our techs is that they are friendly and helpful.