diff --git a/app/tasks/maintenance/helpscout_delete_old_conversations_task.rb b/app/tasks/maintenance/helpscout_delete_old_conversations_task.rb
index 6cd65260a..b7256028f 100644
--- a/app/tasks/maintenance/helpscout_delete_old_conversations_task.rb
+++ b/app/tasks/maintenance/helpscout_delete_old_conversations_task.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ module Maintenance
 
     throttle_on do
       limit = Rails.cache.read(Helpscout::API::RATELIMIT_KEY)
-      limit.present? && limit <= 26 # check is made after each page (of 25 elements), and we need 25 calls to delete them all
+      limit.present? && limit.to_i <= 26 # check is made after each page (of 25 elements), and we need 25 calls to delete them all
     end
 
     def count