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Clothes Moth Treatment in Armonk, Chappaqua, Bedford, Pound Ridge and Katonah
Country houses have more places to store woolthan anyone has looked in this decade.
Northern Westchester houses come with a barn, a guest cottage, a pool house and an attic, and every one of them has stored wool in it. Private Client assesses the whole property, processes everything on site and leaves a record.
Jorge Bedoya, ACEUpdated November 1, 20267 min readNorthern Westchester: every outbuilding is a closet
Armonk (10504), Chappaqua (10514), Bedford (10506), Pound Ridge (10576) and Katonah (10536) all sit at the Census income cap, and the land is zoned in acres, not lots. A typical property here is a main house plus a barn, a guest cottage, a pool house, sometimes a studio, and the textiles are spread across all of them: riding wool in the tack room, blankets in the guest cottage, pool towels and wool throws in the pool house, and an attic in the main house that has not been emptied since the previous owner.
Bedford and Pound Ridge are horse country. Coolers, saddle pads, show jackets and wool blankets stored in a trunk between seasons are the single most reliable larval site we find on equestrian properties, and the moths do not stay in the barn. They follow the clothes into the mudroom and from there into the dressing rooms. A program here that only treats the main house is back in a year.
The houses themselves are older than they look. Chappaqua and Armonk are full of 1920s and 1930s colonials and converted farmhouses with stone basements that run damp, built-in cedar closets whose oil is long gone, and knee-wall attic storage under the eaves. Damp stone basement plus stored wool is the Westchester version of the Long Island harbor problem, and the assessment takes moisture readings in every lower-level closet.
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 Armonk 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.
Sixty to eighty-five minutes from Midwood via the Hutchinson River Parkway and I-684. Northern Westchester programs are nearly always the two-day Plus program because of the number of buildings to inspect.
What we rate most often on Northern Westchester properties:
| Garment | Why moths want it | Rating | How we handle it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equestrian wool: coolers, saddle pads, show jackets, hunt coats | Dense wool stored in a trunk between seasons | Heat, probed | Hot launder where the label allows, otherwise chamber with a core probe; tack room emptied, vacuumed and treated. |
| Guest-cottage and pool-house blankets and throws | Rarely used rooms; larvae feed undisturbed for a season | Heat, probed | Chamber load; outbuilding closets treated in the structure. |
| Cashmere and merino knits in a damp stone-basement closet | Humidity speeds larval development | Freeze | Freeze on site; closet dehumidified and treated; storage moved in the report. |
| Inherited wool rugs and runners in the attic | Rolled in cardboard for years | Heat, probed | Unrolled, both sides inspected, treated or frozen by size. |
Brand names describe fibre, construction and care only. New York Exterminating is not affiliated with any maker named. The full Luxury Fabric and Brand Care Index, sixty entries from vicuña to piano felt, is the reference behind every rating on this page.
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 Armonk homes under the same contact and the same standards of discretion.
The same program,
across the North Shore, Westchester and the East End.
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
Cold Spring Harbor, Lloyd Harbor & HuntingtonHarbor humidity and seasonal storage
Scarsdale, Edgemont & HartsdaleTudor cedar closets and the attic nobody opens
Rye, Purchase, Harrison & Rye BrookSound-side humidity and estate-scale storage
The Hamptons: Southampton to East HamptonClosed-house moth cycles between seasons
All areas and the full programPackages, the day hour by hour, the report
“I do the assessment myself because the assessment is the job. Anyone can run a heat chamber. Knowing which jacket has horsehair canvas inside it, which coat will delaminate at 120 degrees and which rug is the actual source is what you are paying for. If I would not put a garment of my own through a step, it does not go through that step.”
Environmental scientist by training. NYSDEC #15140. What an ACE is · About Jorge
Request a private assessment in Armonk.
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.
New York Exterminating, Inc. · 1115 E 13th St, Brooklyn, NY 11230 · NYSDEC #15140 · 4.9 stars from 82 Google reviews · English and Spanish
The Complete Guide to Treating Clothes Moths ProperlyMethod, chamber, brand index and service day
Luxury Fabric and Brand Care IndexSixty entries: cashmere, vicuña, tailoring, fur, rugs, and how each is treated
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 Armonk: FAQ
Do you treat the barn and the guest cottage, or just the house?
Every building that stores textiles. On Northern Westchester properties the source is in an outbuilding more often than not, which is why the assessment walks the barn, the guest cottage and the pool house before the dressing rooms.
We have horses in Bedford. Where do you usually find the source?
In the tack room: a wool cooler or saddle pad folded in a trunk since the last show season. We inspect and treat it as part of the program, and the report tells you how to store it.
Is a Pound Ridge or Katonah property a one-day program?
Usually two. The Estate Wardrobe Program Plus at $4,500 covers every closet, cedar room and attic in the main house plus the outbuildings, up to six rugs and upholstered pieces, over two days with two technicians.
Our basement is stone and runs damp. Does that matter?
Yes. Larvae develop faster in humid closets, so a damp lower-level cedar closet is usually the source. We take moisture readings there and recommend where to move the wool.
Do you cover Mount Kisco and Waccabuc?
Yes. Mount Kisco, Waccabuc, Bedford Hills and Katonah are the same program and the same pricing as Armonk, Chappaqua, Bedford and Pound Ridge.
