Pest Control Bingley

Pest Control in Bingley

Bingley sits in the Aire valley between Bradford and Keighley, a West Yorkshire town built from dark millstone grit with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal running through it. The five-rise locks are the main landmark, but the character of the town comes from its terraced streets climbing the valley sides and the mills that once powered the local economy. Those stone terraces share the same pest issues found in mill towns across Yorkshire. Brown rats work the back alleys and yards, feeding on food waste and using the Victorian drainage as an underground highway. The drains here are old clay pipes that have been damaged by a century and a half of ground movement, tree roots and subsidence. Cracked joints let rats travel between the sewer and the surface and they emerge in yards, gardens and sometimes inside the buildings themselves. Our rat control in Bingley always checks the drainage when there is ongoing activity indoors.

Mice are common in the terraces, getting in through gaps in the stonework, around original window frames and where services pass through the thick walls. The tight construction of the terraced rows means mice can move between houses through shared walls without crossing open ground. On the newer estates up on the valley sides above the town, mice enter through more typical gaps around meter boxes and boiler flue openings. We carry out mouse control across Bingley and always look at the entry routes as part of the job.

The canal and the River Aire provide corridors for rats and the wooded valley sides support grey squirrels that get into roof spaces of the houses along the upper edges of the town. Wasps nest in the stone wall cavities and roof voids of the terraces every summer, finding gaps in the worn mortar joints that are a feature of these old buildings. Our wasp removal in Bingley covers the town throughout the season.