NYE Private Client · By appointment only
Clothes Moth Treatment in Manhasset, Plandome, Kings Point and Great Neck
The wardrobe you built on Northern Boulevarddeserves better than a spray and a dry-cleaning bill.
Private Client is New York Exterminating’s appointment-only moth program for the dressing rooms of Manhasset, Plandome, Munsey Park, Kings Point and Great Neck Estates. Every garment assessed, processed on site, documented. Forty minutes from our Brooklyn office.
Why Manhasset and Great Neck wardrobes get hit hardest
Manhasset is where the clothes are bought. The Americana on Northern Boulevard is one of the few places outside Manhattan with Loro Piana, Brunello Cucinelli and Hermès under one roof, and the dressing rooms within a few miles of it are stocked accordingly. Manhasset’s ZIP 11030 has a median household income of about $232,000, and Kings Point is one of the fifteen highest New York ZIPs by average income on tax returns. That is a lot of cashmere per square mile, and cashmere is what webbing clothes moth larvae prefer.
The housing stock makes it worse. Plandome, Munsey Park and Great Neck Estates are full of 1920s and 1930s colonials and Tudors with deep built-in closets, cedar-lined storage rooms and third-floor attics where off-season wool sits in garment bags from April to October. Cedar slows adult moths and does nothing to larvae already inside a folded sweater, and a sealed garment bag protects a larva from everything except our heat and cold.
Two patterns we see on this stretch of the North Shore. First, the problem is almost never in the main closet; it is in a secondary closet, a cedar room or a rug under a guest bed, and the main closet is the second generation. Second, the household usually has staff, and the housekeeper has been quietly throwing away damaged sweaters for a season before anyone connects them. Our assessment starts with the question nobody has asked: which pieces have been discarded, and from where?
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 Manhasset 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.
Forty minutes from Midwood via the Grand Central and the Northern State. We book Manhasset and Great Neck programs Tuesday to Thursday and arrive at 8:00.
The pieces we most often rate in Manhasset and Great Neck dressing rooms:
| Garment | Why moths want it | Rating | How we handle it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loro Piana and Cucinelli cashmere knits and coats | The fibre larvae prefer, bought by the dozen here | Freeze | Freeze on site in archival bags. Never heat. |
| Hermès silk carrés and ties | Silk is protein; larvae graze it | Freeze | Frozen flat between tissue. |
| Fur and fur-trimmed outerwear | Keratin on hide; heat cracks the skin | Specialist | Documented and bagged; your furrier, or cold storage. |
| Canvassed tailoring from Manhattan tailors | Horsehair canvas feeds larvae inside the chest | Heat, probed | Heat chamber with a core probe. |
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 Manhasset homes under the same contact and the same standards of discretion.
Request a private assessment in Manhasset.
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.
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
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 Manhasset: FAQ
Do you cover Kings Point and Great Neck Estates, or just Manhasset?
All of it: Manhasset, Plandome, Plandome Manor, Munsey Park, Flower Hill, Kings Point, Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Saddle Rock and Lake Success. One-day programs for every one of them.
My housekeeper has been finding holes for months. Is it too late?
No, but it changes the plan. Months of damage usually means two or three generations and a source closet nobody has looked in. The assessment finds the source first; the program then covers every closet, not just the one you noticed.
Can you treat the clothes without taking them out of the house?
Yes. That is the program. Heat-safe garments go through our chamber in your dressing room or garage, delicate pieces are frozen in our portable freezers on site, closets and rugs are treated in place.
Will you work with my house manager instead of me?
Yes, and most Manhasset clients prefer it. The manager receives the vendor packet, books the window, briefs us and gets the report first.
How much does the program cost in Manhasset?
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. Prices are fixed at the assessment.
