Pest Control Newbury

Pest Control in Newbury

Newbury is a thriving town in west Berkshire, straddling the River Kennet and the Kennet and Avon Canal. Those waterways are central to the pest picture here. Rats thrive along canal towpaths and riverbanks and from there it is a short journey into the gardens and buildings that line the water. The town centre around Northbrook Street and the Kennet Centre has older commercial and residential buildings with the kind of cellar spaces and wall cavities that rats and mice have used for generations. We deal with rat control in Newbury throughout the year, but the autumn and winter months are always the busiest as rats push indoors for warmth and food.

The residential areas spreading out from the centre cover a real mix of building types. Victorian and Edwardian terraces sit alongside 1960s estates and brand new developments on the edges of town around Wash Common, Shaw and Speen. Mice are one of the most common pests across all of these, because a mouse only needs a gap the width of a pencil to get inside. In the newer builds, gaps around pipe runs and under garage doors are the usual entry points. In the older houses, it can be anything from crumbling mortar to gaps around window frames. A thorough approach to mouse control always includes finding and blocking these routes as well as dealing with the mice already inside.

Newbury also sees plenty of wasp activity through the summer. The town has lots of mature trees and gardens and the racecourse and surrounding parkland provide open ground where wasps nest in banks and borders. We carry out wasp removal right across the RG postcode area. Bed bugs are another pest we deal with here, sometimes linked to the hotels and B&Bs that serve visitors to the racecourse and the town. A bed bug treatment needs to be done properly the first time because these insects are tough to shift once they get a foothold.