Truly Nolen of Sioux Falls, SD

Sitting beside picturesque waterfalls, on the Big Sioux River, Southeastern South Dakota’s jewel teems with activity and enterprise as the state’s progressive center of culture and industry. As a rapidly growing metropolitan center, Sioux Falls attracts many potential residents and visitors each year. Some are unwanted visitors who will try to invade your home or business and just make themselves at home, biting you while you are sleeping, spreading human pathogens while you’re awake, chewing on electrical wiring, eating the wood in your home and generally causing mayhem to your Great Plains home and or enterprise.

At Truly Nolen Sioux Falls, our innovative Four Seasons Approach^? to pest control keeps the insects and rodents out of your Minnehaha and Lincoln County homes and businesses. Our customized technique takes a close look at pest lifecycles and seasonal behaviors, administering materials that interrupt pest lifecycles to reduce and eradicate future populations.

Exclusion and creating barriers are the best ways to prevent pest invasions

Because excluding pests from your home and creating barriers towards re-entry are the most efficient ways to establish a pest-free home or business, we check all of the usual pest entry points, sealing any small cracks and crevices that insects and rodents can easily squeeze through in search of food, water and warmth.

As your neighbors, we are aware of seasonal pest activities and know how to respond to them.

On the interior:

• Treatment applied around doors, windows, baseboards and fixtures, to get to pest hiding places.
• Web wiping eliminates unsightly spider webs on walls, in ceiling corners and on beams. Eliminating webs gets rid of spider food sources.
• Monitoring stations, strategically placed, track insect activity.
• Bait stations, placed under sinks, deter moisture-seeking cockroaches and ants.
• Botanical aerosols address and eliminate pests hiding out in closets.

On the exterior:

• Web wiping eaves, awnings and around doors and windows removes spiders and their webs, leaving in its wake a fast-acting botanical repellent to deter further web building activities.
• Powder application, applied around doors and window frames, eaves and soffits stop pests before they can get into your structure.
• Hot spot treatments, applied around foundations and along windows and doors create an impenetrable barrier to pests.
• Power treatments drive material further into cracks and crevices.
• Dual granular bait systems outside reduce adult insects and larvae before they can enter your home or business.

Protect your Southeastern South Dakota home from pests, year-round. Contact Truly Nolen Sioux Falls for a free pest inspection and to plan your customized defense against spiders, termites, ticks, fleas, mosquitoes, cockroaches, wasps, bed bugs, rodents, ants, and other pests.

Widely recognized as the largest urban center between Minneapolis and Denver, Sioux Falls is the largest city on the Northern Great Plains and attracts many business and leisure travelers annually.

Clandestine travelers, hitchhiking rides in luggage, on clothing and in electronics, bed bugs can make their way into your home or business and cause a lot of trouble. Bed bugs have infiltrated every place where humans rest or sleep in the US, including hotels, homes, businesses, college campuses, buses and theatres.

Bed bug prevention involves educating yourself when travelling

Truly Nolen Sioux Falls advises taking precautions when you travel to check a bed bug registry before booking a room. Check your accommodations, upon arrival and most importantly, when returning to Minnehaha or Lincoln County from an overnight trip. Diligently launder everything washable in your luggage on hot settings and vacuum your luggage and other non-washables.

Some things about bed bugs:

• Bed bugs are nocturnal, hiding in mattresses and folds in bedding, during the day.
• In order to reproduce, female bed bugs need protein in the form of a blood meal.
• Bed bugs prefer human blood and are attracted to warm resting bodies and exhaled carbon dioxide.
• Sleeping victims cannot feel a bed bug biting them but are most times alerted to a bed bug bite 1 to 14 days after the fact, when they find welts on their upper extremities around the neck and head.
• By the time victims notice bed bug bites, usually an infestation is well under way. 
• Although not life-threatening, bed bugs can cause excessive stress-related issues, such as sleep deprivation, that, if prolonged, can lead to a compromised immune system.
• Secondary infections can occur from scratching bed bug bites.

If you suspect you have a bed bug problem, it is important to contact a trained and certified professional to assess your situation. At Truly Nolen, our bed bug inspection can determine a plan of action to expediently eliminate bed bugs from your home or business.  Your skilled Truly Nolen technician will walk you through the preparations you need to take before your technician can treat an affected space.

A few things to do include not panicking and rushing out of the door to throw away your bedroom furnishings, bedding and other infested items.

• Most of your bedding and furniture can be cleaned and/or treated to remove all evidence of bed bugs.  
• Transporting items from the affected area can spread bed bugs to other rooms and areas of your home or business.
• Using hot water and your hottest drier setting, launder all washable items and place them in plastic bags.
• Vacuum all affected areas including upholstered furnishings and accent furniture and dispose of the vacuum cleaner bag. If your vacuum doesn’t use a bag, dump contents of canister into a plastic trash bag and dispose of it in an outside receptacle.
• Place clutter in affected area in plastic bags or remove it to an outside trash receptacle in a tightly closed bag.
• Place clocks, accent items and artwork into plastic bags and close them securely.

Your Truly Nolen bed bug specialist will utilize our people- and pet-friendly integrated pest management system (IPM)

• Using our high pressure misting system, we treat your bedroom furniture, bedding and window treatments in affected areas. Our technique drives materials deep into areas where bed bugs hide.
• We treat cracks and crevices in walls, along baseboards, along crown moldings and any place where walls meet a ceiling, floor or carpet.
• Next, we inject materials into wall voids and other bed bug prone places.
• We administer a short blast of material into the bags containing paper, décor items and artwork.
• We recommend investing in cost-effective bed bug specific encasement systems for mattresses and box springs, in order to kill off any live bed bugs trapped inside and to prevent re-infestation, in lieu of purchasing new mattresses and box springs.

Your Truly Nolen Sioux Falls bed bug follow-up visit, in a week to ten days assesses the eradication of bed bugs. If needed, re-inspections will continue until no bed bug activity is found. Northern Great Plains residents and business are advised to invest in bed bug awareness practices when travelling and especially on returning to your Sioux Falls home or business. Contact Truly Nolen Sioux Falls to schedule a free bed bug inspection and to learn more about how to avoid bed bug infestations in South Dakota’s prized city.

As breathtaking as Falls Park may be, just a short walk from downtown, with its cascading waterfalls and 23 acres of other attractions, Sioux Falls residents and business owners may be shocked to realize that, in the midst of all of this natural splendor, Eastern subterranean termites may be living beneath the ground beside their Minnehaha or Lincoln County homes, feasting on the floors, walls and support timbers in their homes and businesses. Extensive Eastern subterranean termite damage can be expensive and your home owner’s insurance doesn’t cover termite damage.

So, what do you do? The short answer, contact a professional pest control company to termite–proof your major investment. With Truly Nolen of Sioux Falls’ Total Termite Protection Plan^?, you can protect your property from subterranean termites year-round. We stand by our innovative termite control service with a one-million-dollar guarantee.

Learning about Eastern subterranean termites can help home and business owners identify potential threats before they turn into nightmares.

• Eastern subterranean termites, like most termites, can be difficult to spot because they enter your home or business from the ground, through mud or earthen tunnels, through cracks and crevices in your foundation and in places where untreated wood comes into contact with soil.
• Subterranean termites live in nests outside your home or business, busying themselves with removing wood from your timbers and transporting it to their underground nests.
• Eastern subterranean termites prefer Douglas fir and other common building timbers.
• Preferring the softer spring wood to the harder summer fibers, Eastern subterranean termites weaken support beams, by hollowing out timbers.

Some signs to look for if you suspect a termite issue in your Southeastern South Dakota home include:

• Large swarms of winged alates in the spring and summer, at dusk after a rain shower. Subterranean termites form larger colonies than drywood termites. If you notice a large swarm of young winged adults, this indicates a subterranean termite colony nearby. Young reproductives swarm once a year, in order to mate and form new colonies.
• Hollowed out timbers where the wood has been replaced with packed earth.
• Wood that looks warped or bubbled is paper thin and sounds hollow when tapped.

Trust Truly Nolen Sioux Falls: Total Termite Protection Plan^?

Protecting your home from termites starts with scheduling a termite inspection and evaluation. We take care of existing termite issues by injecting non-repellent materials directly into termite galleries. This poisonous material is carried by unsuspecting workers to the entire colony, ultimately killing the queen, causing colonies to collapse. We treat all areas on your Great Plains property, where termites are apt to try to enter your home or business. These include:

• Tiny crevices and miniscule cracks in your foundation
• Cracks and imperfections in walls
• Swarm access points, such as windows, attics, eaves and doors
• Voids in concrete blocks
• Dead tree stumps and other wood on the exterior of your property
• Firewood piles and wooden outdoor furniture
• Gaps in plumbing pipes

Going further, your highly-trained and experienced TN technician injects material deep into the soil, underneath your property, via our specialized, high-powered spray nozzles. Utilizing liquid treatments inside, outside and underneath your property, Truly Nolen Sioux Falls seals off your home or business to termite invasion.

Because termites are predicted to affect a significant percentage of Southeastern South Dakota properties in the foreseeable future, proactive home and business owners are advised to termite-proof their Sioux Falls and other Minnehaha and Lincoln County properties. Contact Truly Nolen Sioux Falls to schedule a free termite inspection!

A city that features the majestic Big Sioux waterfall show, all day, every day, just a short walk from downtown, hosts a crowd of visitors and continually draws scores of residents and business owners to this progressive hot spot. Along with all of this trade and homesteading come rodents, those disease-carrying, destructive creatures, who have lived alongside humans since we learned how to make shelters, gather food and harness water.

Rodents come with a lot of baggage, such as bubonic plague and Hantavirus

Rodents not only cause extensive, expensive damage to homes and businesses by chewing through anything they can, including electrical wiring, they also carry several types of vector insects, such as fleas and ticks that threaten human health. Roaches that feast on rodent excrement can also cause Hantavirus respiratory infections, as well as allergic reactions.

Our Complete Rodent Control Program begins with rodent-proofing your Minnehaha or Lincoln County home or business.

Truly Nolen’s free rodent inspection targets potential mouse and rat entryways

The common house mouse and Norway rat can squeeze through miniscule holes in your foundation, as well as invading through vents and crawlspaces.  Since exclusion is the best, most effective way to keeping rodents out of your home or business, we start there. Your Truly Nolen Sioux Falls technician will work with your schedule to seal all cracks and crevices in your foundation and around other potential entryways, such as doors and windows.

Home and business owners can take part in a proactive plan to exclude rodents, by:

• Removing all tall grass and unkempt vegetation from your property.
• Trimming tree branches away from your house or place of business.
• Moving all construction materials and wood piles away from your structures.
• Regularly sweeping and/or vacuuming all floors, especially in food prep and dining spaces.
• Thoroughly wiping down counters and other food areas.
• Keeping all open food in the fridge, or in the case of dried food items, in metal, glass or hard plastic containers.
• Sanitizing trash receptacles and placing food scraps in tightly, closed trash containers.

Pretty sure you hear scratching in your walls, scurrying in your attic and you’re finding rodent pellets in your kitchen?

If you think you might have a rodent concern, please contact a certified, Truly Nolen rodent expert immediately because rodents don’t waste any time reproducing so procrastination and DIY methods and materials can be costly and ineffective. Your Truly Nolen Sioux Falls technician will assess your rodent invasion and set about to reduce your rodent population by strategically placing traps. Trap placement is important in removing rodent carcasses and your Truly Nolen Sioux Falls technician is trained to place traps in accessible areas, avoiding the need to cut into walls to get to inaccessible areas.

Working as expediently as possible, your Truly Nolen technician will continue remediation until no rodent activity is detected. Monitoring and sealing any new cracks and crevices, Truly Nolen’s Complete Rodent Control Program is guaranteed for one year.  In bustling Sioux Falls, with its progressive stance and natural wonders you’ve got better things to do than worry about rodents. Contact Truly Nolen today for a free rodent inspection and go enjoy your scenic Great Plains lifestyle!