A fellow traveler on the plane the other day asked what I did for a living, and I had to say I’m sell products for pest control to professional pest control companies. Including pesticides. Surprisingly they didn’t begin throwing their cold hard Air Canada buns at me, accuse me of destroying the planet, or causing […]
Read More »We had a call from a customer needing the MSDS for the Catchmaster Glue Boards. Please note that as of June with the new WHIMIS 2015 they are now called SDS to align with the Global Harmonization. (but what if we don’t like the rest of the countries?) We had the C/M glue board SDS. […]
Read More »Here it is: Eliminate all Domestic uses. Simple enough. How many homeowners do you think buy a can of “Dr Invade Kil” at the local House Hardwire, go up home and spray the wasp nest above their garage. Without gloves Standing downwind Without goggles And their hand on the trigger…(actuator button really) And streams of […]
Read More »Before I put you to sleep with the PMRA ruling (ahem)…my list of bait stations Gardex carries that meet all the criteria for using a Commercial indoors or outdoors: JUST ABOUT EVERY SINGLE ONE! (provided you sticker the outside with the product info) Nearly all bait stations from Bell Labs, B&G and Lipha are designed […]
Read More »Well your good friends at PMRA have just published another Decision. Again restricting product uses… So we have lost use of propoxur for indoor residential treatments. The reasoning? Never really explained that I can see, even trying to read in between the lines, the fine print, the “sub-paragraph II.a.a.b, clause 2.7”…. So folks out there […]
Read More »As the jobs really start rolling in, I hope you did a serious breakdown of your costs, and are charging your customers appropriately. You’re 2 biggest line item expenses have all gone up… Labor…vehicles/fuel… Did anyone cut their technicians wages? Nah Drive less or buy gas cheaper? Nah I bet your insurance is way down????? […]
Read More »It took a long time coming, but we are managing to see some spring like weather, even though it’s almost summer. Everyone is reporting a great upswing in business, but it’s only been kicking in the past couple of weeks. And everything has come all at once. Perimeter applications for carpenter ants, and a general […]
Read More »The PMRA has started the re-evaluation of pyrethrin and all classes of pyrethroids. Normal course of the re-evaluation process that all pesticides must go through. Plus have thrown in the Synergists (PBO and MGK 264) for good measure. Of course no one can buy or use these unless already in a product formulation. But imagine […]
Read More »With the Loonie now resting at $0.90 US there is going to be an automatic price increase across the board on products brought in from the States. Besides the normal price increases of 3 – 5% from all suppliers, right now prices will be adjusted up 10% to cover the swing in the Exchange Rate. […]
Read More »It must nearly 4 years when I first noticed the sparrows. Just about March one or two would be hanging around the eaves over the garage door. Then a week later hints of sticks and grass on the driveway portends the true deed these birds plan on carrying out. A few weeks later, sure enough, […]
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