Pest Control in Windermere

Windermere is the main gateway to the Lake District, a bustling town perched on the hillside above the lake that gives it its name. Together with Bowness-on-Windermere down at the waterfront, it forms the tourist hub of the southern Lakes, with hotels, guest houses, restaurants and outdoor shops packed along the main streets. All of that hospitality activity generates food waste and rats take full advantage. The bins and service areas behind restaurants along Main Road, Craig Walk and the streets of Bowness are regular foraging spots and rats follow the drains between the commercial areas and the residential streets. We carry out a lot of rat control work in Windermere, for both commercial businesses that need to maintain food hygiene standards and residents dealing with rats in gardens and outbuildings.

The buildings in Windermere and Bowness range from substantial Victorian and Edwardian hotels to stone cottages and newer builds and mice find their way into all of them. The older buildings are the most vulnerable, with stone walls full of voids and the kind of gaps that develop over more than a century of use. Mice in a hotel or guest house are a serious problem because of the effect on bookings and reviews and we provide fast, discreet mouse control for the hospitality sector here. Holiday lets and self-catering cottages also call us regularly, often between bookings when signs of mice have been spotted during cleaning.

The lake itself and the woodland around it support a wide range of wildlife, including squirrels that get into the lofts of properties near the treeline. Wasps nest in roof spaces, stone walls and outbuildings through the summer and the damp climate brings cluster flies and other insects into properties during autumn. Wasp removal is a busy summer service for us in the Windermere area. The town also has a growing gull problem, with herring gulls nesting on rooftops and becoming aggressive around the cafes and ice cream shops in Bowness. Windermere is the beating heart of the Lake District tourism industry and keeping pest problems under control here matters for the whole local economy.