Pest Control Amersham

Pest Control in Amersham

Amersham is really two places in one. Old Amersham sits in the Misbourne valley with its medieval high street, coaching inns and flint-and-brick cottages, while Amersham-on-the-Hill grew up around the Metropolitan line station from the 1890s and now has the shops, schools and commuter estates that make it a busy Buckinghamshire town. The contrast matters for pest control because the two halves face quite different issues. Down in the old town, the valley-floor location means the ground is damp and the River Misbourne, even when it runs low, creates conditions that rats rely on. The older buildings along the High Street have deep cellars and stone foundations with gaps that have opened up over centuries. Our rat control in Amersham deals with a lot of properties in the old town where the river and the drainage are driving the problem.

Up on the hill, the housing is mainly twentieth century, from the 1920s semis near the station to the larger detached houses and modern estates further out. Mice are the most common issue here, getting in through gaps around service entries, meter boxes and where extensions join the main house. The Chiltern beechwoods that surround the town on almost every side support large numbers of grey squirrels and properties on the edge of the built-up area regularly have squirrels in their loft spaces. The damage they do to wiring is a genuine fire risk and our squirrel control in Amersham is one of the busier parts of our local work.

Wasps nest reliably across both parts of town each summer. The flint walls and old mortar joints of the cottages in the old town make it easy for queen wasps to find their way into wall cavities, while the roof voids and fascia boards on the hill provide equally good nesting spots. We treat wasp nests in Amersham throughout the season. The surrounding farmland and woodland also mean that mouse problems peak in autumn when field mice move in from the stubble, adding to the house mice already present in many properties.