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> Straight answers on structural pest control in Calgary: chemicals, service area, homes vs commercial, IPM vs exclusion, same-day rules, and assessment timing.

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Last updated: 2026-10-27

FAQ

The questions owners, PMs, and assistants actually ask about Framework Pest, exclusion, and Calgary buildings.

## What do you actually do?

You show us what you saw. We inspect and name it. Then we treat what is there, close the freeze-thaw gaps, and follow up. Inspect first, no guessed spray.

## Are you an exterminator in Calgary?

We are a structural pest-control firm. An exterminator sells a spray calendar. We inspect, treat what is inside, and close the joint so the calendar is not the product.

## Do you offer same-day pest control in Calgary?

Same-day when occupancy, food, or a clinical setting requires it: nest over a door or play area, mice in a kitchen with kids, activity in a food room. Access and labelling set the clock. It is not a marketing SKU.

## What is structural pest control?

It treats pest pressure as a failure of the building: joints, penetrations, docks, weeps, and voids. Find the pathway, close it with materials that survive prairie weather, and document that it stayed closed. [Read the full piece](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/insights/what-is-structural-pest-control/).

## Do you serve homes as well as commercial?

Yes. Detached homes and infill present the same envelope problems at a smaller scale. The method does not change.

## What areas do you cover?

Calgary, Airdrie, Cochrane, Chestermere, Okotoks, and High River. Portfolio work across Alberta by arrangement.

## Will you use chemicals?

When an active population requires it, Health Canada-registered products according to the label. Every intervention is paired with a plan to close the pathway.

## How is this different from IPM?

IPM is the decision framework. Exclusion is the permanent correction. We use both. Spray is not the annual plan.

## What if the mice come back?

Then a pathway is still open. If a joint we closed reopens in the first freeze-thaw season, we come back to that joint. Start with [mouse-proofing](https://www.frameworkpest.ca/mouse-proofing/).