Pest Control in Harlow

Harlow is a new town built in the 1950s and 1960s in the Stort Valley on the Essex and Hertfordshire border. It was designed around a series of neighbourhood clusters separated by green wedges and connected by a network of cycle paths and underpasses. The housing is mostly post-war council-built with a mix of terraces, maisonettes and tower blocks along with later additions of private housing at Church Langley and Newhall. The town centre around The Harvey Centre and Water Gardens has been redeveloped but keeps the original new-town layout. The green wedges that run through Harlow are one of the things that make pest control here different. These strips of open land, woodland and stream corridors bring wildlife right into the heart of the residential areas. Rats follow the watercourses and the green wedges and use them as highways between the housing clusters. The Stort Valley itself is a major corridor for rats and the streets close to the river and the canal at Burnt Mill see high levels of activity. Rat control in Harlow is one of our busiest services.

Mice are very common in the post-war housing. The original construction used cavity walls and many of the builds have gaps around service entries that were never sealed properly. The maisonettes and flats are the most affected because mice move through the shared walls and floor voids. Mouse control in Harlow is a job we handle all year round and proofing is always part of it. The private housing at Church Langley and Newhall has fewer issues but is not immune.

Wasps do well in Harlow and the green wedges and woodland give them plenty of nesting sites. They also build in the flat roofs and soffits of the post-war housing. Wasp removal in Harlow runs from June through to September and we deal with nests of all sizes. Squirrels move in from the woodland corridors and get into lofts through the flat-roofed sections of the original housing where the construction makes it easy for them to find a way in. Bed bugs occasionally appear in the flats and we deal with those discreetly. We cover the whole of Harlow daily and offer same-day visits.