Pest Control Bacup

Pest Control in Bacup

Bacup sits at the head of the Irwell valley in the Rossendale hills of East Lancashire, a former mill town surrounded by open moorland and steep-sided valleys. The housing is overwhelmingly stone-built terraces, climbing the hillsides in long rows with narrow back streets and shared yards. These terraces present the same pattern of pest problems found in mill towns right across Lancashire. Rats work the back alleys where bins and food waste accumulate and the drainage beneath these streets was laid in the Victorian era and has deteriorated over the decades. Cracked clay pipes give rats a direct connection between the sewer and the surface and they surface in yards, gardens and sometimes inside buildings through broken toilet connections or disused pipes. Our rat control in Bacup always checks the drainage when there is ongoing activity indoors.

Mice are common across the town, finding their way into the terraces through gaps in the stonework, around poorly sealed service entries and beneath doors that have dropped on their hinges over the years. The tight construction of the terraces means that once mice are in one house, they can move through shared walls and into the neighbours without crossing open ground. Dealing with mice in this kind of housing often means working with several properties at once to get a lasting result. We carry out mouse control across Bacup and coordinate with landlords and neighbours where needed.

The moorland above the town brings its own pest influences. Field mice and voles live on the moor edges and move into the properties at the top of the terraced rows when the weather turns harsh. Wasps nest in the loft spaces and wall cavities of the stone terraces, getting in through gaps in the mortar and behind the stone lintels above doors and windows. Our wasp removal in Bacup runs through the summer months and most nests can be treated within hours of a call.