Pest Control Ashby-De-La-Zouch

Pest Control in Ashby-De-La-Zouch

Ashby-de-la-Zouch is a market town in north-west Leicestershire with a ruined castle at its heart and a mixture of historic and modern housing spreading out around it. The town centre along Market Street and Bath Street has Georgian facades over older buildings, many with cellars and yards behind them. Those hidden spaces are exactly where rats make themselves at home. Brown rats get into the cellars through damaged drains and crumbling brickwork and the restaurants and takeaways in the centre provide food waste that keeps them coming back. The Gilwiskaw Brook runs through the eastern edge of town and adds another corridor that rats follow between the countryside and the built-up area. Our rat control in Ashby-de-la-Zouch covers the town centre and the residential estates around it.

The housing estates that have grown around the town since the 1960s range from council-built terraces to modern executive homes on the Nottingham Road side. Mice are common across all of them. In the older estates, the airbricks and poorly sealed service routes let mice in at ground level, while the newer builds see them entering around meter boxes and gaps where the soil pipe meets the wall. Once inside a cavity wall, mice can move up to the loft space without crossing a single room. The first sign is often the scratching at night or droppings found behind kitchen units. We provide mouse control across Ashby-de-la-Zouch and always check the access routes as part of any treatment.

The National Forest planting around the town has increased tree cover over the past thirty years and that has brought more grey squirrels into contact with the houses on the edges of the built-up area. Squirrels in loft spaces cause damage to wiring and insulation and dealing with them early prevents costly repairs later. Wasps nest in loft spaces, wall cavities and garden sheds each summer and the old castle walls and the stonework on the older buildings in the centre provide sheltered spots that queen wasps use in spring. Our wasp removal service runs throughout the season.