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| - One of the first things I do when moving into a new home is establish a pest control schedule. I have an unreasonable fear of harmless bugs (not afraid of spiders or scorpions, etc.) and will sit awake all night if I hear a cricket serenading the dark.
Tennessee has some of the biggest bugs I've ever seen. And there are millions of them. So, I went to the local hardware store to buy a jug of bug spray to treat the perimeter of my home with. The jug had a big picture of bugs on it so I had to buy a roll of duct tape first and ask some random guy to tape over the picture so I could take the jug to the checkout clerk and pay for it. I'm that crazy. When I was once held hostage in my car for 37 minutes because a huge bug was on my front screen, I decided I needed a professional. I found one that used pet-safe, chemical free products and have been pretty determined to continue that trend when I moved to Arizona. That's how I found Blue Sky.
We used Blue Sky for several months and, while the bug population seemed under control (mind you, it was winter) I never found any dead bugs in or around my home after a treatment like I had with other exterminators. I also found Blue Sky to be so unreliable I just couldn't continue business with them. And, they're EXPENSIVE! I tolerated the high fees because I want pet-safe products but Blue Sky kind of pushes the price a little too high, in my opinion. Since I need them to spray inside the house, I try to arrange their visits on days that I work from home, which is often. However, they often did not arrive when they said they would, cancelled and had to reschedule, and they routinely do not call ahead. The last straw was when I REALLY needed them to spray inside the house and made this clear when I scheduled my appointment for a treatment. They arrived way before the scheduled time. I could have come home - I only work two miles away - but they hadn't called to say they'd be early and so they just treated the outside (and charged me for it) and left the bill under my door mat. I wasn't happy with that - the whole idea was for them to treat the INSIDE. Since this was probably the third or fourth time we had trouble with scheduling them, I had had enough.
Sorry Blue Sky - you are not the company for me.
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