The last fortnight of a Vietnamese tenancy is when a deposit is won or lost, and pest condition is one of the three things landlords here reliably inspect for.
A suitcase that has been through three hotels and an airport is the most common way bed bugs enter a home. That is a logistics fact, not a comment on your guests.
In a temperate country the flea year has a gap in it. In Ho Chi Minh City it does not, and that single difference changes everything about how you protect a pet here.
Almost every pest problem we attend in a foreign tenant apartment could have been prevented by four small things done during the first week.
A finished room hides its construction gaps behind trim. Those gaps are where the population spends the day, which makes them the target rather than the floor.
Everything a household throws away arrives in one room, and in most buildings a vertical chute connects that room directly to every floor above it.
A basement car park is the floor where the building touches the ground, collects water, and stores the things nobody wants upstairs. All three matter.
A rooftop tank holds thousands of litres of clean, still, shaded water. If the lid does not seal, it is the largest mosquito breeding site the building can possibly have.
Most buildings here have a hidden storey above every ceiling: continuous, warm, dark, and crossed by every service in the building.
The filter you can remove and wash is the part of an extract system that matters least. The grease that matters is behind the hood and inside the duct.
