Pest Control Bellingham

Pest Control in Bellingham

Bellingham is a residential area in the London Borough of Lewisham, built mainly in the 1920s as one of the London County Council cottage estates. The streets are laid out in a garden suburb pattern with wide roads, grass verges and houses set in small front gardens. The housing is predominantly brick-built semis and short terraces, now over a hundred years old and the construction is starting to show the kind of wear that pests take advantage of. Mice are the most common issue. The houses have suspended timber floors with ventilated sub-floor voids and where airbricks have cracked or mortar has eroded at ground level, mice come in underneath the house. From the sub-floor they follow pipe runs upward and appear in kitchens, bathrooms and airing cupboards. Our mouse control in Bellingham always includes checking the sub-floor access and sealing the gaps.

Rats are present too, especially around the green spaces and the railway corridor that passes through the area. The Ravensbourne river runs nearby and the parks and allotments provide food, water and cover for rats. The 1920s drainage has had a century of wear and tree root damage and cracked pipe joints give rats a route from the sewer to the surface. Communal bin areas on some of the estate blocks are another draw. We handle rat control across Bellingham with drain checks included when rat activity persists after standard treatment.

The parks and mature trees around the estate support grey squirrels and wasps nest in the roof voids and behind the wooden fascia boards of the houses each summer. Fleas are a regular issue in this part of Lewisham, linked to the high proportion of pet-owning households and the carpeted floors in many of the homes. Our flea treatment uses professional-grade sprays that continue working for weeks, breaking the breeding cycle properly.