Pest Control in Pontypool

Pontypool sits in the Afon Lwyd valley in the eastern South Wales Valleys, a town with a long industrial history that has left its mark on the layout and the buildings. The older parts of town around George Street, Crane Street and Trosnant are built on steep ground with terraces stepping up the valley sides and the shared drainage and retaining walls between these tightly packed houses create easy routes for rats. The ageing sewer system beneath the older streets is one of the main drivers of rat problems here, with cracked pipes allowing rats to move from the drains into gardens and then into houses through air bricks and gaps around waste pipes.

The Afon Lwyd runs through the valley below the town and the smaller streams that feed it come down through the housing areas on both sides. Rats follow these watercourses and the properties on the lower streets near the river tend to see the most activity. Pontypool Park, the large green space on the eastern hillside above the town, is a popular open area but the woodland and grassland there support grey squirrels, field mice and other wildlife that can move into nearby properties. Mouse problems are common in both the older terraces and the newer housing at New Inn and Griffithstown, where cavity walls give mice hidden routes through the building once they find a way in.

The town centre around the indoor market and the commercial areas along George Street generate food waste that attracts rats and mice and the back lanes and service areas behind the shops need careful waste management. Wasp nests are found across Pontypool each summer, particularly in the roof spaces and stone outbuildings of the older properties and in the garden sheds and garages of the newer estates. The valley setting means Pontypool can be damp and those moist conditions attract insects like silverfish and beetles into the ground floors of properties across the town.