When mice invade your office building or other commercial premises, they cause a lot of issues that affect your business from the bottom lines. Since it is a disease-carrying pest, it can pose a number of health risks for you and your employees together with structural risks to your whole. Infestation of one mice in your professional premises can quickly turn it into a full-scale infestation. When you notice a mice in your office, you should take an immediate to avoid further infestation.
The following are some of the dangers that mice infestations can pose to your office building or commercial premises:
Structural damages
This is one of the main problems that is caused by mice infestation into professional premises. Despite their small sizes, these pests can cause a lot of demolitions and destructions in your office or commercial area. They are creative and powerful chewers. Once they invade your office building, they will eat through everything from wood to plastics, leaving ugly holes, bite marks and scraps all over the place. This can give your business an unprofessional look and can even welcome of more mice to make their inhabitant in your professional premises.
The damages caused by chewing and burrowing of the mice increase further beyond realm appearance. If an immediate action for their treatment is not taken, the infestation of the pest may pose serious structural risks to your whole building. They are capable of even chewing through wood beams, walls, ceiling components, and other elements that are very important to the overall structure of your building. These damages pose serious safety risks for both your employees and patrons and they can cost you a lot of money to repair and replace.
Disease risks
Mice infestations pose a number of health concerns to those in your office or commercial premises. Being a vicious disease-carrier, its infestation in your building can cause a serious disease outbreak among your employees and patrons. They can carry directly transmit various diseases such as Leptospirosis, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, Salmonellosis, and Rate-bite fever. They can also carry and transmit diseases indirectly through insects such as ticks and fleas. The diseases include Colorado tick fever, plague, and cutaneous leishmaniasis. These conditions may lead to serious problems of the respiratory, cardiovascular, and nervous system to human which in turn may become fatal.
Productivity problems
Mice in your office or any commercial space can cause a big problem in how you conduct your daily basis operations. First, mice can scare your employees and discourage them from coming for work. Secondly, they can scare away your potential customers. This is a problem for you since the scared customers can spread the news about your infestation all over the community and this may cause a great negative impact on your business. The pest is also capable of damaging things that are very important for your day-to-day operations. Since they are capable of chewing any size and thickness they may destroy your IT appliances affecting the daily performance of your business. They may also carry away paper to make their nests and this can make you lose valuable information either in digital form or printed.