Discreet, documented pest control for office buildings and corporate campuses — without disrupting work.
Ants in the break room, mice in the ceiling, spiders in the lobby — pests in an office building undermine employee comfort and your company's image at the same time. Pests can carry bacteria across shared kitchens and restrooms, a mouse sighting in a conference room quickly becomes an email to the whole floor, and nothing derails a client visit like droppings in reception.
For building owners and property managers, the stakes include tenant satisfaction and lease renewals. Many leases spell out who is responsible for pest control in common areas, the building envelope and individual suites, and tenants expect those obligations to be met consistently. For companies that own or occupy their building, a pest problem becomes an HR and facilities issue: employee complaints, lost productivity and repeated work orders that never seem to solve the root cause.
As temperatures fall, mice enter through loading docks, gaps around utility lines, garage connections and damaged door sweeps. Once inside, they travel through drop ceilings, wall voids and cable chases, so activity can show up floors away from where they entered. Our rodent control page covers how they get in.
Pavement ants, odorous house ants and carpenter ants follow crumbs and spills into break rooms, kitchenettes and desks where employees eat. Carpenter ants can also signal moisture problems in older buildings. Learn more about ant control.
Boxelder bugs, Asian lady beetles, stink bugs and cluster flies gather on sunny walls in September and October and slip inside through window frames and gaps, then reappear indoors on warm winter days.
Fruit flies and drain flies show up in kitchenettes, cafes and restrooms. German cockroaches can arrive in deliveries or spread from food service tenants. Spiders build up in storage rooms, mechanical areas and entryways, and stinging insects nest at rooflines and entrances in summer.
An effective program focuses on how pests are getting in and what is keeping them there, rather than routine spraying of occupied space.
In multi-tenant buildings, pests don't respect suite lines. A cafe on the ground floor, a tenant who keeps snacks in a back office, or a neglected storage room can feed activity that spreads through shared ceilings and chases. We can structure service so common areas, the building envelope and individual suites are inspected and reported separately, which makes it easier to see where a problem starts and who needs to act on it.
Most office clients choose early morning or after-hours service. On each visit, the technician checks the facility's sighting log or work orders, services all monitoring devices, inspects high-risk areas, responds to tenant or employee reports, treats only where needed and notes any structural or sanitation issues. Service frequency is set by the building's risk, from monthly for buildings with food service to quarterly for lower-risk offices, with seasonal adjustments in fall and spring. If an issue comes up between scheduled visits, we'll schedule a follow-up.
After every visit, facility managers receive a written report showing findings, actions taken, products used and recommendations. Trend data across visits shows which floors, suites or entry points need attention, which helps owners and tenants sort out responsibility and gives property managers clear records to share.
Strib serves corporate offices, multi-tenant office buildings, business parks and medical office buildings across southeast Wisconsin, including downtown Milwaukee, the Brookfield and Waukesha office corridors along I-94, Racine and Kenosha, and offices throughout Madison and Dane County, where we're headquartered.
Whether you manage a single building or a portfolio, or you're a tenant tired of seeing the same mice every November, request a free commercial site assessment. We'll inspect your building, explain what we find and recommend a documented program and schedule that fits your operation.
Yes — most of our office clients choose early-morning or evening service so employees never encounter a technician or a wet application. Routine exterior and monitoring work can happen any time without entering occupied space.
It depends on your lease, but common areas and building envelope are typically the owner's responsibility while tenant suites vary. We work with both owners and tenants, and can structure service and reporting to match how your building splits responsibility.
Ants and fruit flies around break rooms, mice entering through loading docks and utility penetrations in fall, spiders in storage and mechanical areas, and occasional bird or wasp issues at rooflines. An assessment tells us which your building faces.
Get a documented assessment of your property from a licensed local team.
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