NYE Private Client · By appointment only
Clothes Moth Treatment in Rye, Purchase, Harrison and Rye Brook
Purchase estates and Rye waterfront housesassessed, processed and documented in a day.
Purchase is the second-highest ZIP in New York by tax-return income, and Rye is at the Census cap. The wardrobes match. Private Client is the moth program built for them: appointment only, on site, written up.
Rye and Purchase: waterfront humidity and estate-scale storage
Purchase (10577) ranks second among all New York ZIPs by average adjusted gross income, behind only Mill Neck, and the hamlet is zoned for large lots around the SUNY Purchase and corporate-campus land. Rye (10580) is at the Census income cap and runs from the pre-war houses near the village to the waterfront along Milton Point and Greenhaven. Harrison and Rye Brook fill in between, with the same scale of house.
Rye’s moth problem has a Long Island Sound signature. Waterfront and near-waterfront houses run humid from May to September, and clothes moth larvae develop faster in warm, humid closets than in dry ones. A basement cedar room or a closet on the water side of the house can produce two generations in a summer where an inland closet produces one. We take moisture readings on every Rye assessment, because the humid closet is usually the source closet.
Purchase houses have the Old Westbury pattern instead: dressing rooms for each adult, a dedicated cedar or storage room, guest wings whose closets hold the overflow, and rugs in every room. One treated closet cannot hold against five untreated ones, which is why the program here is nearly always whole-house.
Nothing leaves your home.
Assessment, processing, treatment and a report, in one visit.
The full program is described hour by hour on the Private Client page. In Rye it runs like this.
Private assessment, $750
Jorge Bedoya, ACE, inspects every closet, storage room and rug and photographs each garment as clear, at risk or infested. You receive the inventory and a fixed program price. The fee is credited to a program booked within 30 days.
Processed on site
Heat-safe garments go through our chamber in your home with a probe in the core of the load. Cashmere, silk and anything delicate is frozen in our portable freezers. Closets are emptied, HEPA-vacuumed and treated in the structure; rugs are done on both sides.
Report and monitoring
Everything goes back in its original order. You receive the Private Client Report with findings, inventory, probe and freezer logs. Monitors are read at 30, 60 and 90 days; those visits verify, they do not re-treat.
Fifty-five minutes from Midwood via the Hutchinson River Parkway and I-287. Rye and Rye Brook programs are usually one day; Purchase estates are usually the two-day Plus program.
What we rate most often in Rye and Purchase houses:
| Garment | Why moths want it | Rating | How we handle it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cashmere and fine wool stored in a humid basement or water-side closet | Humidity speeds larval development; this is usually the source | Freeze | Freeze on site; closet dehumidified and treated; storage moved in the report. |
| Summer-stored overcoats and camel hair | Bagged from April to October, untouched | Freeze | Freeze on site; bags replaced with breathable cotton covers. |
| Wool rugs in guest wings and lower floors | Rooms used rarely; larvae feed undisturbed | Heat, probed | Both sides inspected; treated in place, or frozen by size. |
| Golf and club wool: sweaters, blazers, vests | Worn weekly in season, stored the rest of the year | Heat | Chamber load with a probe; fused collars checked first. |
Brand names describe fibre, construction and care only. New York Exterminating is not affiliated with any maker named. The full index is on the Private Client program page and in the Complete Guide.
Three ways to engage us.
Prices are fixed at the assessment.
Wardrobe Assessment
Estate Wardrobe Program
Estate Wardrobe Program Plus
Any repeat service within six months of a program is 50% of the original price. Payment plans are available. Apartments in the city are covered by our standard clothes moth service. We also handle mice and rats, bed bugs, carpet beetles, ants and recurring protection for Rye homes under the same contact and the same standards of discretion.
Request a private assessment in Rye.
Tell us the town, the size of the wardrobe and what you have seen. We reply the same business day with the next available dates.
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The same program,
across the North Shore and Westchester.
Old Westbury, Roslyn, Roslyn Harbor & East HillsTwo-acre houses, cedar rooms, horse country
Gold Coast: Locust Valley, Mill Neck, Oyster Bay CoveHeirloom textiles and hundred-year-old closets
Scarsdale, Edgemont & HartsdaleTudor cedar closets and the attic nobody opens
All areas and the full programPackages, the day hour by hour, the report
The Complete Guide to Treating Clothes Moths ProperlyMethod, chamber, brand index and service day
Clothes moth larvae: identificationCasings, webbing and grazing on wool and silk
Why clothes moths keep coming backCashmere, rugs and the storage habit that feeds them
Clothes moths in Rye: FAQ
Does being near the water change the treatment?
It changes where we look. Humid closets on the Sound side of a house and in basements breed larvae faster, so the assessment includes moisture readings and the report includes where to store wool instead.
Are Purchase estates a one-day program?
Usually two. The Estate Wardrobe Program Plus at $4,500 covers every closet, storage room and guest wing, up to six rugs and upholstered pieces over two days. Rye, Harrison and Rye Brook houses are usually one day.
Do you treat Harrison and Port Chester at the same price?
Yes. Harrison, Rye Brook and the estate section of Port Chester are the same program and the same pricing as Rye and Purchase.
Can the house manager handle everything?
Yes. The manager gets the vendor packet, books the window, briefs us on the house and receives the report first. Many Purchase owners never meet us.
What if we see a moth a few weeks later?
One adult in the first weeks is expected; it was a pupa when we arrived and the monitors are there for it. We read monitors at 30, 60 and 90 days, and any repeat service within six months is 50% of the original price.
