Pest Control Accrington

Pest Control in Accrington

Accrington sits in the Hyndburn valley in East Lancashire, surrounded by moorland to the east and the Calder valley to the south. It is a proper mill town at heart, with long terraced rows built of dark stone running up and down the hillsides. Those terraces are tightly packed with shared walls, shared yards and shared drainage, which means a rat problem in one house can quickly become a rat problem for the whole row. The back alleys behind the terraces collect rubbish and food waste, giving brown rats plenty to feed on. We deal with rat control in Accrington regularly and know these streets well enough to trace activity back to the source.

The town centre around Blackburn Road and Warner Street has a mix of shops, takeaways and older commercial buildings and the drains beneath them are often Victorian-era clay pipes that have cracked or shifted over the years. Rats move through damaged drains easily and can surface inside buildings through broken toilet connections or disused pipework. Outside the centre, the newer estates up toward Huncoat and Baxenden are not free from problems either. Mice find their way into cavity walls through gaps around meter boxes and service entries and once inside they breed fast in the insulation. Our mouse control across Accrington always includes working out how they got in, not just putting bait down.

Wasps are a regular summer headache too. The stone lintels and old mortar on the terraced houses leave gaps that queen wasps use to get into wall cavities and roof voids. A nest in a bedroom wall is not unusual here and by August it can be a serious nuisance. For anyone dealing with that kind of problem, our wasp nest removal service covers the whole Accrington area. The surrounding moorland and farmland also bring field mice and the occasional grey squirrel into properties on the edge of town, especially during autumn when temperatures drop and animals start looking for shelter.