Pest Control Sudbury

Pest Control in Sudbury

Sudbury is a residential area in the HA postcode district of north-west London, sitting between Wembley and Harrow along the Piccadilly line. The housing is predominantly interwar and post-war semis and terraces with front and back gardens, set along avenues that were laid out when the tube expanded into this part of Middlesex in the 1920s and 30s. After nearly a century, these houses have developed the gaps and wear that pests take advantage of. Mice get in through gaps around airbricks, under doors where the threshold has worn, around bay windows where the brickwork meets the main wall and through openings where gas and water pipes enter the building. We deal with mouse calls from Sudbury year-round, though the autumn months are the busiest as the cold drives mice indoors.

The area sits close to Horsenden Hill and the green spaces around the Grand Union Canal corridor and these features bring additional pest pressures. Rats use the canal banks, the railway embankments and the overgrown margins of the green spaces as corridors through the area. Properties backing onto Horsenden Hill or the canal see the most rat activity and unsecured bins, bird feeders and open compost heaps all attract them. The food outlets along the main roads through Sudbury also contribute, with food waste needing careful management to avoid drawing rodents in from the nearby green spaces. Wasp nests appear every summer in the roof spaces and wall cavities of the interwar houses and the gardens are large enough for ground-nesting wasps to turn up in flowerbeds and along fence lines. The trees around Horsenden Hill support squirrels that venture into the surrounding streets and get into loft spaces.