Knowing what a contractor refuses tells you more about them than any list of services. Here is ours, with the reasons.
The short version: a properly done kitchen treatment puts nothing on any surface that touches food, which makes most of this straightforward.
The oils genuinely repel mosquitoes. The plant sitting in a pot does not release them, and the pot has a saucer under it.
Cleaning matters and it is not the variable people think it is. The honest version of this answer is more useful than the polite one.
Some widely repeated beliefs here are correct, several are half right, and a few send people in exactly the wrong direction.
For most treatments the answer is yes, once the room is dry and aired. The useful part is knowing which situations are the exceptions.
Low-odour products are genuinely more pleasant to live with. They are not safer, and the two get conflated in almost every sales conversation.
Fish and birds are the animals most at risk during a treatment, and they are the ones nobody mentions when booking.
For a household with asthma the relevant variable is whether anything becomes airborne — and, less obviously, whether the pests themselves are part of the problem.
The honest answer is that no insecticide is completely safe, and that this is the wrong question. The useful question is about exposure, not toxicity.
