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Clothes Moth Treatment in Litchfield County, Connecticut: Roxbury, Washington, Kent, Salisbury, Sharon and Litchfield
A weekend house is a moth incubator five days a week.We time the program to closing and opening.
Litchfield County houses are assessed by an Associate Certified Entomologist and processed on site with heat, freezing, steam and HEPA vacuuming as an overnight program timed to the fall closing or the spring opening. Nothing leaves the property. Programs from $3,000 when two houses book the same week; $4,500 as a stand-alone overnight.
Jorge Bedoya, ACEUpdated November 1, 20268 min readLitchfield County: the eighteenth-century farmhouse, closed from November to April
Roxbury (06783) is the only ZIP outside Fairfield County in Connecticut’s top fifteen, with a 2025 median sale price of $1.35 million, and Washington, Kent, Salisbury, Lakeville and Sharon trade well above their medians for the houses this program is built for: eighteenth-century farmhouses on fifty acres, a barn converted to a guest house or a studio, wide-plank floors under wool rag rugs and hand-knotted rugs, a tack room, and an attic that has not been emptied in three generations. Many are weekend houses for Manhattan families, which is the whole moth problem in one sentence.
A house that is closed from Sunday night to Friday afternoon, and from November to April, is a house where a larva can finish its entire development undisturbed, in low heat, in the dark, inside a closet of wool that nobody opens. The owner arrives for Memorial Day, finds the holes in the sweaters left behind, and takes the moths back to the city in the duffel in September. Litchfield Hills houses also hold the things that make the problem worse: a wool-filled quilt, a mohair teddy bear on a child’s bed, a taxidermy mount over the fireplace, a piano whose hammer felts have never been looked at, and a barn full of horse blankets.
That is why Litchfield County runs as an overnight program timed to the calendar: a closing program in October or early November, after the summer wardrobe is stored and before the house is shut, or an opening program in April before the family returns. We treat the city residence under the same report when the assessment finds activity, and in New York the whole program, including any structural work, is performed by New York Exterminating under its own license. Caretakers and house managers open the house for most of these programs.
Nothing leaves your home.
Assessment, processing, monitoring and a report, in one visit.
The full program is described hour by hour on the Private Client page, and the way it runs in Connecticut on the Fairfield County page. Here it runs like this.
Private assessment, $750
Jorge Bedoya, ACE, inspects every closet, storage room, barn and rug and photographs each garment as clear, at risk or infested, rated against our Fabric and Brand Care Index. 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, steamed and HEPA-vacuumed; rugs are done on both sides. Everything goes back in its photographed order.
Report and monitoring
You receive the Private Client Report with findings, inventory, probe and freezer logs, and the Connecticut partner’s documentation where a product was applied to the structure. Monitors are read at 30, 60 and 90 days; those visits verify, they do not re-treat.
Two hours to two and a half from Midwood via the Taconic or I-84 and Route 7. Litchfield County programs are booked as two-day overnight trips on the Plus program at $4,500, or as one-day $3,000 programs when two houses in the same town book the same week. Fall closing (October to early November) and spring opening (April to May) are the right windows; book twelve days ahead.
What we expect to rate most often in Litchfield County houses:
| Garment | Why moths want it | Rating | How we handle it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cashmere and fine knits left in a closed house all winter | Six undisturbed months in a low-heat house | Freeze | Frozen on site before closing; sealed in archival bags with breathable covers for the winter. |
| Horse blankets, coolers and tack-room wool | Barn-stored, sweat-soaked, never cleaned | Heat, probed | Chamber with a core probe; the barn is walked as a source. |
| Wool quilts, rag rugs and camp blankets on wide-plank floors | Wool batting and pile that no one has lifted in years | Heat, probed | Chamber with a probe inside the fold; rugs inspected on both sides. |
| Taxidermy, mounted heads, feather and hair-on pieces | Hair and feathers on a form, in a room closed all week | Specialist | Documented and referred to a taxidermist or conservator; a single mount can seed a whole floor. |
| Antique hand-knotted rugs in the principal rooms | Wool pile under furniture that has not moved in decades | Case by case | Both sides inspected; steamed and vacuumed in place, or frozen by size. Antique and silk rugs to your restorer. |
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
In Connecticut, New York Exterminating performs the assessment, the on-site heat, freezing, steam and HEPA processing, the monitoring and the report. Any pesticide application to the structure, when the assessment finds one is warranted, is performed by a Connecticut-registered company under its own registration, scheduled by us and shown as a separate line. How Connecticut is different. Any repeat service within six months of a program is 50% of the original price. Payment plans are available.
The same program,
on both sides of the state line.
“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 Litchfield County.
Tell us the town, the size of the house and the barn, the dates the house is open, and what you have seen. We reply the same business day with closing and opening windows.
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Luxury Fabric and Brand Care IndexSixty entries: cashmere, vicuña, tailoring, fur, rugs, and how each is treated
The Complete Guide to Treating Clothes Moths ProperlyMethod, chamber, screening rules and service day
Clothes moth larvae: identificationCasings, webbing and grazing on wool and silk
Carpet beetles in Fairfield and Litchfield CountyShed skins, bare patches on rugs and a colony outside the wardrobe: the other program, same day, same report
Clothes moths in Litchfield County: FAQ
When should a weekend house be treated, closing or opening?
Closing, if you have to choose. Treating in October or early November, after the summer wardrobe is stored and before the house is shut, stops larvae from feeding all winter. An opening program in April catches what a closed house produced and clears it before the family returns.
How is a Litchfield County program priced?
As an overnight two-day Estate Wardrobe Program Plus at $4,500, covering every closet, barn, attic and guest house, up to six rugs. When two houses in the same town book the same week we run one-day $3,000 programs for each. The $750 assessment is credited to a program booked within 30 days.
Can the caretaker open the house for you?
Yes, and that is how weekend-house programs usually run. The caretaker opens, our two technicians work the day, closets are reset to their photographed order, and the report goes to the owner and the manager.
Is New York Exterminating licensed in Connecticut?
Our pesticide business registration and applicator certification are in New York State. In Litchfield County we perform the assessment, on-site heat, freezing, steam and HEPA processing, monitoring and the report, none of which is a pesticide application. If the structure needs a product applied, a Connecticut-registered company performs it under its own registration, scheduled by us and documented in your report. See our Fairfield County page.
What if a piece is beyond what you can process on site?
It goes to the right specialist, and we make the call: a furrier’s cold vault for furs, a textile conservator for quilts, couture and needlepoint, a rug restorer for antique rugs, a taxidermist for mounts. Each hand-off is recorded in the report so nothing is lost between the house and the specialist.
