Pest Control in Chester Le Street

Chester-le-Street sits in the valley of the River Wear between Durham and Gateshead, a town with Roman origins that has grown steadily around its main street and the cricket ground that hosted international matches. The town centre runs along Front Street, with a mix of older terraced housing, Victorian and Edwardian properties and more modern development spreading out towards the bypass and the surrounding villages. The River Wear flows along the western edge of the town through Riverside Park and this green river corridor is the main source of rat activity in Chester-le-Street. Brown rats thrive along the riverbanks, using the vegetation and the old drainage buildings and drainage to move between the countryside and the built-up area.

The terraced streets around the town centre and in the older residential areas off the main road have the kind of Victorian and early twentieth-century construction that mice find easy to navigate. Shared walls, cellar voids and gaps beneath suspended floors allow mice to move between properties unseen and treating one house without considering the neighbours can sometimes just shift the problem rather than solve it. The newer estates around Pelton, Great Lumley and towards the A167 are better sealed but still see mouse activity, with the surrounding farmland providing a steady supply of field mice heading for shelter from late summer onwards.

Wasp nests are a common problem through the summer months, with the older roof voids, garden sheds and outbuildings providing ideal nesting sites. The mix of green spaces through the town, including the cricket ground, Riverside Park and the allotments, supports a range of pest activity. Wasp removal and general rodent work make up the bulk of our calls in the area. Our technicians cover Chester-le-Street and the surrounding villages of Pelton, Great Lumley, Birtley and Ouston.