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Clothes Moth Treatment in Scarsdale, Edgemont and Hartsdale
A 1928 Tudor with a cedar closetis the most common moth call we take in Westchester.
Scarsdale, Edgemont and Hartsdale are pre-war houses with built-in cedar closets and attics full of wool. Private Client assesses every one of them, processes the garments on site and leaves a written report.
Scarsdale Tudors, cedar closets and the attic nobody opens
Scarsdale’s ZIP 10583, which also covers Edgemont, is at the Census income cap, and its housing stock is unusually consistent: Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival houses built between about 1915 and 1940 in Fox Meadow, Greenacres, Heathcote and Quaker Ridge, many of them with the original cedar-lined closet in the master suite and a walk-up attic with knee-wall storage. Hartsdale, just west, is the same era at a smaller scale, with co-ops and garden apartments along Central Avenue that share walls and share moths.
Cedar closets are the Scarsdale moth story. The original cedar lost most of its oil decades ago, and even fresh cedar only discourages adults; it does nothing to larvae that arrived inside a folded sweater. Homeowners trust the closet, store the finest wool in it, and leave it closed from April to October. That is the ideal moth habitat: dark, undisturbed, full of food. The second habitat is the attic knee-wall, where wool rugs and winter coats sit in cardboard until the first cold week.
The other Westchester factor is the second home. A great many Scarsdale and Edgemont families keep a house upstate or on the East End, and moths travel in a duffel of sweaters between the two. When a program here finds activity, we ask about the other house, and we can treat both under one report.
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 Scarsdale 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 minutes from Midwood via the Hutchinson River Parkway. Scarsdale, Edgemont and Hartsdale programs are usually one day; houses in Heathcote and Murray Hill with full attics are sometimes two.
What we rate most often in Scarsdale and Edgemont closets:
| Garment | Why moths want it | Rating | How we handle it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cashmere and merino knits stored in the cedar closet | The closet everyone trusts, and the one with the most larvae | Freeze | Freeze on site; cedar closet emptied, HEPA-vacuumed and treated. |
| Wool rugs and runners rolled in the attic | Undisturbed for months in cardboard | Heat, probed | Unrolled, both sides inspected, treated or frozen by size. |
| Canvassed suits and school blazers | Horsehair canvas and wool blends on a school and office calendar | Heat, probed | Chamber with a core probe; fused collars checked first. |
| Down coats with fur trim (Moncler, Canada Goose) | Fur trim is keratin; shells cannot take heat | Specialist | Trim inspected; body frozen if needed; fur to your furrier if infested. |
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 Scarsdale homes under the same contact and the same standards of discretion.
Request a private assessment in Scarsdale.
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
Rye, Purchase, Harrison & Rye BrookSound-side humidity and estate-scale storage
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 Scarsdale: FAQ
Do you treat the cedar closet, or just the clothes in it?
Both. The closet is emptied, HEPA-vacuumed shelf by shelf, treated in the cracks and voids, and the garments go through freezing or the chamber on site before they go back in their original order.
Is Hartsdale covered at the same price as Scarsdale?
Yes. Hartsdale houses and co-ops are the same program. In a co-op we also check shared closets and hallway carpet, because moths move between units.
We also have a house upstate. Can both be on one program?
Yes. The second residence is quoted with the program and documented in the same report, and we recommend treating both within the same two weeks so garments do not carry larvae back and forth.
Can my children and the housekeeper be home during the program?
Yes. Closets are treated empty with the door closed, the chamber and freezers run in one room, and no product is applied to clothing. We work around the household.
What does a Scarsdale program cost?
The Wardrobe Assessment is $750, credited to a program booked within 30 days. The Estate Wardrobe Program is $3,000 for one day and up to three closets; the Plus program is $4,500 for the whole house over two days.
