Pest Control Newington

Pest Control in Newington

Newington sits in the heart of south London, just south of Elephant and Castle and bordering Walworth and Kennington. This is dense inner-city living with row after row of Victorian and Edwardian terraces, council estates and converted flats packed tightly together. The housing density is the biggest factor driving pest activity here. Shared walls, communal bin stores and interconnected roof spaces mean that pests can move between properties without ever going outside. Mice are one of the most common pest calls we get from Newington and in a terraced street it is rarely just one house affected. We take a thorough approach to mouse control here, always looking at how the mice are getting in and where they are travelling, not just where they have been seen.

Rats are the other constant. The area sits over a dense network of Victorian sewers and rats use these as highways beneath the streets. They surface through broken drains, damaged manholes and gaps around soil pipes, appearing in gardens, basements and sometimes inside kitchens and bathrooms. Rat control in Newington often starts with a drain survey to find out where they are getting in from below ground. Fixing the drainage issue is the only way to stop them coming back.

Bed bugs are a growing concern across this part of south London. The high turnover of tenants in rental properties and the number of people moving through shared housing means bed bugs spread easily. They travel on furniture, clothing and luggage and they can survive for months without feeding. A bed bug treatment needs to be done carefully and completely, usually requiring at least two visits to break the breeding cycle. Cockroaches also turn up in the older blocks of flats around Newington, especially in buildings with shared heating ducts and pipe runs that give them warm routes between units. We deal with fleas here too, often in rental properties between tenancies when the pupae left in carpets hatch out as soon as someone moves back in.