Pest Control Belmont

Pest Control in Belmont

Belmont in the London Borough of Harrow sits on the high ground east of Stanmore, with the open spaces of Belmont Hill and the playing fields giving the area a suburban feel. The housing is a mix of 1930s semis, post-war council-built homes and some modern infill, spread across the streets between Kenton Lane and Belmont Circle. These inter-war houses are now approaching a hundred years old and the construction details that made them solid homes in the 1930s now provide entry points for pests. Mice are the most common issue. The suspended timber ground floors have ventilated sub-floor voids and cracked airbricks or eroded mortar at ground level let mice in underneath the house. Our mouse control in Belmont always includes identifying and blocking the entry routes as well as treating the mice inside.

Rats are present in the area, particularly around the allotments and green spaces where food waste and compost materials attract them. The council-built estates have communal bin areas that can become hotspots for rat activity when bags are left outside or bins overflow. The drainage beneath the older streets has had decades of wear and tree root damage and cracked pipe joints allow rats to travel between the sewer and the surface. We carry out rat control across Belmont with drain checks when the evidence suggests an underground route.

The green spaces and mature trees in the area support grey squirrels and properties along the edges of the open spaces sometimes find squirrels in their loft spaces. Wasps nest in the roof voids and behind wooden fascia boards each summer and the 1930s houses with their original timber soffits are easier for queen wasps to chew into than properties with PVC replacements. Our wasp removal service covers Belmont throughout the warmer months.