In the same way that regular garden maintenance is a key element of Bird control, cleaning your house on a consistent basis is good for eliminating and indeed discouraging household pests. Often, food fragments break away and become ingrained in the carpet or rug, and while these can be invisible to the naked eyes, they draw rodents and insects into the home.
For this reason, regular cleaning is indispensable and to begin with, it is important that the tools you are using to do the job are sufficiently effective. Old, worn out or dirty appliances and cleaning aids will not help you on the way to a sparkling home, so if yours are looking a little worse for wear, it might be time to invest in a new stock.
A quality vacuum cleaner is, perhaps, the most necessary of all these items. An excellent eliminator of all kind of tiny carpet colonisers, a good one will rid your home of dust, food particles, insect eggs and even fleas.
It is equally necessary that you work with cleaning product that effectively eliminate both staining and bacteria. Find a good carpet and upholstery shampoo that does both, and, in addition, buy yourself an organic surface cleaner as well.
This kind of product is biodegradable and thus won't damage the environment, ensuring that your home is both clean and eco-friendly. In short, a clean home is necessary to effective pest control. Ensure yours is spotless by using good quality appliances and products.

