If you’re a homeowner, you have probably had to deal with a pest at one time or another. Pests come in all varieties. They can be ants, flies or rodents. They can even sometimes cause damage to your house. Here are some tips for dealing with these pests.

Stuff steel wool into holes that pests could enter through. Steel wool is too tough for any pest to chew through, even rats and mice. Openings measuring more than 1/2 an inch need stuffing. Animals can get through very small openings.

People who have problems with flying pests need to repair all of the screens in their home. Screens will also keep most crawling bugs out of your home. Fix all the gaps in screens so that bugs can’t enter.

If you have a water leak, fix it. Pests gravitate toward sources of water. They can actually sense a drip from a …