District 7 is not one place. Phu My Hung is a planned development with its own standards of drainage and waste handling; the rest of the district is ordinary Ho Chi Minh City — low-rise houses, older apartment blocks, small businesses at street level and open drainage canals. If you live outside the planned area, your pest problems look different from your friends inside it.
Open canals and street drainage
Outside the planned area, drainage canals are often open and slow-moving, and they carry organic waste. Two consequences follow, and both are worse in the rainy season:
- Mosquitoes breed in the canal and in every container near it. Treatment that ignores the fifty metres around your building will not hold.
- Rodents live in the canal banks and the street drainage system and come up through floor drains, gully traps and gaps around waste pipes. A grated drain does not stop a rat; a properly sealed one does.
Older apartment blocks
Blocks built before the current generation of towers often have shared open corridors, external waste chutes or communal bin areas at ground level, and plumbing that has been modified repeatedly. Cockroach populations in these buildings tend to be established rather than recent, which means a single treatment will reduce numbers but not end the problem. Expect to need a follow-up visit two to four weeks after the first, timed to catch the generation that hatched after the initial treatment.
Houses with a yard or a shopfront
If you rent a house here, the two things worth doing before any treatment are practical rather than chemical: clear the strip along the outside walls so there is nothing stacked against the building, and fit or repair the brush seal under the front shutter. Those two jobs remove the majority of ground-level entry routes, and they make whatever treatment follows last considerably longer.
Reading in Vietnamese?
Global Pest Control is the English-language site of Khử Trùng Toàn Cầu. These pages cover the same work for Vietnamese-speaking customers, and carry the full price tables.
Other areas we cover
- Pest control in Thao Dien — riverside villas and gardens
- Pest control in An Phu — compounds and townhouses
- Pest control in Phu My Hung — high-rises on reclaimed marshland
- Pest control in District 1 — serviced apartments above restaurants
- Pest control in Binh Thanh — large high-rise compounds
Questions we get asked before the first visit
- Who pays — landlord or tenant?
- How to book when you do not speak Vietnamese
- What building management covers, and what it does not
- Is it safe for children, pets and pregnancy?
See the full price list or contact us to arrange a survey. We answer in English.