Commercial · Integrated Pest Management
IPM is pest control with a paper trail and a plan. Instead of spraying on a schedule and hoping, we inspect first, identify the pest and the conditions feeding it, and treat only where treatment is actually needed — then we document all of it for your records.
What IPM is
Inspect and identify first. We find out which pest it is, where it's living, and how it's getting in — before any product comes out.
Monitor. Traps and monitoring stations, plus a sighting log your staff keeps between visits, tell us whether activity is rising, falling, or gone.
Act on thresholds. A single ant on a loading dock and an infestation in a pantry are different problems. We respond to what the monitoring shows, not to the calendar.
Fix the conditions first. Sanitation gaps, moisture, food and water sources, clutter, and harborage get addressed before chemistry does — that's where lasting control comes from.
Targeted treatment, only where needed. When a treatment is warranted, it's placed where the pest is — not broadcast everywhere by default.
Document everything. Every visit produces a written record: findings, conditions, recommendations, and exactly what was applied, where, and by whom.
Schools & day cares
Michigan law treats schools and day care centers differently from other buildings, and for good reason. Under Michigan's pesticide law (MCL 324.8316 and Regulation 637):
PXP provides that IPM service record after every visit, along with a written service report — the documentation your files need, ready for your records.
One plain note: the facility stays responsible for its own parent notifications and entrance postings. We supply the information you need for those notices — dates, target pests, and areas — and can support you with the posting signs, including the template below. After an indoor application, we also provide the “house in the cloud” entrance posting sign Michigan Regulation 637 requires to stay posted at the building's primary entrance(s) for at least 48 hours.
Food service & property management
The same documentation that satisfies Michigan's school rules is what health inspectors and auditors want to see in a kitchen, warehouse, or rental property. A staff sighting log tells us exactly where activity is happening between visits, and your service reports show an inspector a managed program — inspections, findings, corrective recommendations, and treatments — instead of a stack of one-off invoices.
After an indoor application, we also provide the required entrance posting sign — the “house in the cloud” sign Michigan law requires at the building's primary entrance(s) for at least 48 hours.
Facility documents
A one-page log for your staff to record every sighting — date, location, pest, and conditions noted. Your technician reviews it at each service visit, and it becomes part of your service record.
Open & print the log → Prints on one Letter page.
The entrance posting schools and day care centers use to notify parents and guardians at least 48 hours before a scheduled application (bait and gel formulations are exempt), with the state and national information lines printed on it.
Open & print the notice → Fill in by hand, post at entrances.
The posting Michigan Regulation 637 (Rule 11) requires at the building's primary entrance(s) for at least 48 hours after an indoor broadcast, foliar, or space insecticide application in a commercial or public building, health care facility, school, or day care center. We provide the sign after an indoor application; your building manager posts it.
Open & print the sign → Prints at 5″ × 5″ — never smaller than 2½″ × 2½″.
Eviction notices, served daily.
Setting up an IPM program for your school, day care, restaurant, or property? Start with a free inspection and a written estimate.
Call (734) 560-9829