Pest Control Burnley

Pest Control in Burnley

Burnley is a Lancashire mill town built along the valleys of the River Calder and the River Brun, with steep terraced streets climbing the hillsides and the Pennine moors visible from almost everywhere. The town's industrial heritage means rows and rows of stone-built terraces with shared walls, cellars and old drainage and these are exactly the kinds of buildings where rats and mice thrive. The rivers running through the town centre give rats a constant corridor of cover and water and the aging Victorian sewers under the terraced streets provide a second network underground. We carry out rat control across Burnley, from the streets around the town centre and Turf Moor to the housing in Rosegrove, Padiham and Brierfield and the pattern is consistent: old drains plus food waste plus dense housing equals rats.

Mice are even more widespread. The terraced houses share party walls that are full of gaps and void spaces and mice move between properties through cable runs, gaps behind skirting boards and openings around pipework. A mouse problem in one terraced house almost always means the neighbours have them too and getting a lasting result often requires work across several properties. The cellars that come with many of the older terraces can be damp, which attracts insects and creates conditions where pest problems compound.

Wasps nest under the stone roof tiles and in the wall cavities of the older buildings and wasp removal from terraced houses can be straightforward once the nest is located. The moorland and farmland that surround Burnley on every side bring rural pest issues into the edges of town. Properties in areas like Worsthorne, Cliviger and the higher parts of Burnley back onto open land where rats, mice and moles all move in from the fields. Pigeons roost on the older commercial buildings in the town centre and the combination of industrial buildings, waterways and dense housing makes Burnley a consistently busy area for pest control work.