Our heritage program serves landmark properties, historic homes, museums, and collections institutions. The work is quieter than conventional pest control. It has to be.
A 1830s Savannah townhouse, a wood-frame antebellum cottage, and the curatorial wing of a museum collection all share two characteristics: organic materials at risk from Anobiidae (powderpost beetles) and Reticulitermes termites, and a mandate against the broad-spectrum chemistry conventional pest control relies on.
Heritage IPM substitutes monitoring for spray-and-pray. We use pheromone traps that detect pest pressure species-by-species. We use thermal treatments where we'd otherwise reach for liquid termiticide. We document conditions over time so the building's care team has data the next steward can read.
What we don't do: prophylactic perimeter sprays. What we limit: chemical applications that could deposit on collection objects, fabrics, or finished architectural surfaces. What we add: written condition reports that go into the property's permanent file alongside its conservation reports.
Twelve months of monitoring, one detailed report, all the chemistry by exception.
Inspection by lead technician with documentation: photographs of every elevation, moisture readings at all sill plates and below-grade walls, thermal imaging of suspected harborage, written summary in property-file format.
Insect Limited PRT-301 and PRT-307 pheromone traps deployed by species (Anobiidae for furniture beetles, Lyctidae for powderpost) on a documented grid. Quarterly readings. Trend data delivered annually.
Hexagonal grid of subterranean termite stations around the foundation, charged with Recruit HD termiticide. Quarterly station inspection. Activity triggers a written remediation plan, not an immediate liquid application.
For active Anobiidae in furniture or millwork, we deploy a thermal chamber (140°F for 1 hour) or freezer (-20°F for 72 hours) depending on the object. Both kill all life stages without chemical residue.
We participate in property review meetings, file reports in the format your conservation team uses, and stand aside when the conservator's protocol governs. We're the trade contractor; we're not running the building.
A written report in the form expected by Historic Savannah Foundation, the GA Trust, or your private conservation consultant. Photographs, trap data, year-over-year trends, recommendations.
The standard pest-control bag of tricks doesn't belong inside a curatorial space. These are what we use instead.
| Pheromone traps | Insect Limited PRT series, species-specific. Generic sticky traps don't tell you which species is present, only that something is. |
|---|---|
| Termite stations | Sentricon Always Active with Recruit HD. No-monitor stations, no untreated bait — the labor of installation is the same; the protective value is meaningfully higher. |
| Treatment chambers | Insect Limited thermal chamber for furniture, plus partner walk-in freezer for larger objects. Both lethal to Anobiidae larvae, both residue-free. |
| Moisture detection | Tramex Encounter Plus (capacitive) for non-invasive sub-wall scanning. Protimeter Hygromaster L for pin-and-pinless on milled surfaces. |
| Documentation | FLIR T540 thermal camera. Olympus TG-7 with ring flash for in-cavity photographs. Annual report delivered as PDF and archival print. |
| What we won't use | Broad-spectrum residual sprays. Foggers. Bug bombs. Diatomaceous earth in occupied collection areas. Chlorpyrifos. Anything labeled "perimeter pest control" by a franchise. |
Their annual report is filed in the same drawer as our conservator's. It reads the same way — like someone who understands the question.
Roughly 32 properties under heritage contract as of January 2026. Most are private and stay anonymous. A few we're able to mention.