Pest Control Aylesbury

Pest Control in Aylesbury

Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, sitting in the flat Vale of Aylesbury with the Chiltern Hills rising to the south. The town has grown rapidly over the past few decades, with large new housing estates spreading outward from the older core, but the centre still has a market square and streets of historic buildings that give it character. The Bear Brook and other small watercourses run through the town and that water is a constant factor in the rat problems we deal with here. Brown rats follow the brookside paths and drainage ditches and move into the gardens and properties alongside them. The older streets around the town centre have Victorian and sometimes earlier drainage that is well past its best and cracked pipe joints let rats travel between the sewer and the surface. Our rat control in Aylesbury covers everything from the terraces near the centre to the new builds on the Berryfields and Kingsbrook estates.

Mice are the other major rodent issue across the town. The scale of new-build housing around Aylesbury means thousands of homes are less than twenty years old and while the construction standards are higher than the older methods, there are still gaps where mice get in. Meter boxes, boiler flue openings and the junction between the garage and the main house are the most common access points on newer homes. In the older parts of town around Walton and Bedgrove, worn airbricks and gaps around original sash windows let mice into the sub-floor voids and wall cavities. We carry out mouse control across Aylesbury and tailor the proofing work to the construction type.

The open vale around Aylesbury supports large numbers of insects in summer and wasp nests appear in their thousands across the town during July and August. Garden sheds, loft spaces and wall cavities are the main nesting sites and on the new estates the identical roof designs mean that if one house gets a nest, the neighbours often do too. Our wasp removal in Aylesbury runs all season. We also deal with bed bugs more often now than in the past, linked to the growth of the town and the increase in rental accommodation.