Pest Control Bexley

Pest Control in Bexley

Bexley is the old village at the heart of the London Borough of the same name, sitting in the valley of the River Cray with a medieval church, a High Street of period buildings and residential streets spreading outward in every direction. The Cray is a chalk stream and it runs right through the centre of the village, creating the kind of damp, sheltered conditions that rats depend on. Brown rats live along the riverbanks and under the old bridge and they move into the gardens and buildings of properties on the lower ground. The older houses along the High Street and around the churchyard have foundations that have settled over centuries, with gaps in the stone and brickwork that rats use. Our rat control in Bexley takes the riverside setting into account at every stage.

The residential streets beyond the village centre are mainly inter-war and post-war housing and mice are the most common pest issue on these streets. The 1930s semis have suspended timber floors with ventilated sub-floor spaces and cracked airbricks or eroded mortar at ground level let mice in underneath the house. Once in the sub-floor void, they follow pipe runs and gaps in the boxing upward into living spaces. We carry out mouse control across Bexley and always include proofing to stop reinfestations.

The Cray valley and the parks along it support grey squirrels that get into the roof spaces of houses along the river corridor. Wasps nest in the roof voids and behind fascia boards across the area each summer and the chalk-influenced soil makes ground-nesting wasps a feature in some of the gardens on the higher ground. Our wasp removal service covers all of Bexley throughout the warmer months.