Pest Control Crofton Park

Pest Control in Crofton Park

Crofton Park is a residential area in the London Borough of Lewisham, built up in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods with streets of terraced and semi-detached houses running off the main Brockley Rise and Stanstead Road corridors. The housing here is dense and well connected, with shared party walls, back gardens abutting each other and a network of rear access paths. These features are exactly what mice and rats exploit. Mice travel through the cavity walls between terraced houses and a problem in one property almost always means the neighbours are affected too. Mouse control in the terraced streets of Crofton Park is one of the most common jobs we do in this part of south-east London.

Rats follow the drainage network under the older streets and emerge in gardens and ground-floor kitchens where pipes are cracked or drain covers are broken. The railway line running through Crofton Park station provides another corridor for rats and properties backing onto the cutting see more activity than those further away. We deal with rat problems across the area year round. The period houses also attract bed bugs, which turn up more often in areas with a high proportion of rental properties and house shares. Second-hand furniture and frequent tenant changeovers are the usual routes in and a professional heat or spray treatment is the only reliable way to clear them.

In summer, wasp nests appear in loft spaces and under the eaves of the older houses and the mature gardens with their fruit trees and dense planting provide sheltered nesting spots. The Blythe Hill Fields open space nearby also supports wasps and other insects that can end up in nearby homes.