Pest Control Kingston Upon Thames

Pest Control in Kingston Upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames is one of the biggest town centres in south-west London, covering the KT1 and KT2 postcodes and sitting on a bend of the Thames between Richmond and Surbiton. The town centre is a major shopping and dining destination, with the Ancient Market Place, the Bentall Centre and the riverside all drawing visitors. That busy commercial centre generates serious amounts of food waste and brown rats are well aware of it. They live along the Thames and the Hogsmill River, which runs through the town and move between the waterways and the commercial areas. The aging drainage under the older parts of the town centre gives them underground routes and the riverside restaurants and pubs provide easy feeding opportunities.

The housing across Kingston ranges from period properties around the old town to Victorian and Edwardian terraces in the side streets, inter-war estates further out and modern riverside apartments. Mice are a constant problem across all types. The older properties have the gaps and voids that a century or more of use creates, while the modern developments have service risers, bin stores and underground car parks that create their own pest pathways. The university campus and the student accommodation in the area bring a transient population where pest issues in rented properties sometimes go unreported.

The Thames towpath, Canbury Gardens and the Hogsmill valley provide green corridors through the urban area and grey squirrels from the mature trees along these routes regularly get into roof spaces. Squirrel damage in lofts is a common call-out. Wasp nests turn up in buildings right across the town every summer and the hotels and guest houses near the town centre see bed bug issues from the steady flow of visitors. Kingston is a town that combines historic character with a modern urban energy and the pest control needs across it are as diverse as the place itself.