Pest Control Barnehurst

Pest Control in Barnehurst

Barnehurst is a residential area in the London Borough of Bexley, built mainly in the 1930s as part of the suburban expansion along the railway line from London to Dartford. The streets are lined with bay-windowed semis and detached houses, many with generous rear gardens that give the area a spacious feel for south-east London. These 1930s houses are now approaching their hundredth birthday and the construction is starting to show its age in ways that matter for pest control. The suspended timber floors have ventilated sub-floor voids and where the original airbricks have cracked or crumbled away, mice walk straight in underneath the house. From the sub-floor they follow pipe runs and gaps around the boxing into kitchens and bathrooms. Our mouse control in Barnehurst always includes identifying and blocking these entry routes.

Rats are present too, particularly in the gardens that back onto the railway embankment. The embankment provides cover and nesting opportunities and rats move out from there into the rear gardens of houses along the tracks. The allotments near Barnehurst station are another draw, with compost heaps and stored materials providing food and shelter. The drains under the 1930s streets have had decades of tree root damage and ground movement and cracked pipes give rats access from the sewer to the surface. We carry out rat control across Barnehurst with drain checks when the evidence points underground.

The green spaces around Barnehurst, including the golf course and the playing fields, support grey squirrels that occasionally get into loft spaces along the edges of the built-up area. Wasps nest in the roof voids and behind the wooden soffits of the 1930s houses each summer and the wooden barge boards and fascia that are original to many of these properties are easier for queen wasps to chew into than modern replacements. Our wasp removal service operates throughout the season.