Keep Rats And Spiders Out Of Your Home Using The Tea Bag Method

Aug 15, 2018

As the summer months come to a close, rodents and insects like rats and spiders begin looking for a place to keep them warm. If your house is warm and there is an entry that these little critters can use to get inside, then your home may be their target. While you could spend tons of money on tested chemicals to kill off these intruders, there is also a simple way to keep them out- tea bags. Surprisingly, all you need is tea bags and a few other ingredients to keep your home free of critters.

Let's talk about how you can do so.

You may be wondering how exactly you can fend off spiders and rats with only tea bags. If so, we are going to give you that information right now. Here are the following steps that you need to take in order to effectively use this method:

To use this method, you will begin by obtaining peppermint tea bags and using them to make tea. The reason that peppermint is used rather than any other ingredient is that peppermint in very unpleasant to pests. The scent of peppermint is so repulsive to them that they will likely stay as far away from it as they can. If you have peppermint tea bags sitting in the spots that these pests formally used to enter your home, they will no longer enter your home.

Throwing peppermint tea bags in random spots is not going to be effective at keeping critters out of your home. This step is very important, and you must put some thought into it if you want this method to work. As you are looking for locations, you need to account for each and every entryway that you can. Pests are great at burrowing their way through tiny holes, so make sure that you have a plethora of bags available to use. Corners of the wall are a common entryway for pests, so make sure you have a bag at each.

The results may not be immediate, but within a few days you will certainly notice a difference in the number of pests in your home. Keep these bags in place and add more if you need to. After a couple of weeks or whenever you notice that the pests are back, you can add new bags and continue to keep your home pest-free.

After reading this article, you should know a thing or two about how to keep critters out of your home. If you have your own tips, we would love to hear them!