Pest Control Bandonhill

Pest Control in Bandonhill

Bandonhill sits between Wallington and Carshalton in the London Borough of Sutton, a quiet residential area of 1930s semis and inter-war housing with Bandon Hill Cemetery and its green space forming a boundary to the south. The housing here is typical of the suburban expansion of the 1920s and 30s, with bay-windowed semis, small front gardens and longer rear plots. These houses were solidly built but they are now approaching a hundred years old and the pest vulnerabilities that come with age are starting to show. Mice are the most common issue. The suspended timber floors have ventilated sub-floor voids and where the original airbricks have cracked or the mortar around them has eroded, mice come in underneath the house. From there they follow the pipe runs up to the kitchen and bathroom. Our mouse control in Bandonhill combines treatment with sealing the entry points so the problem does not return.

Rats turn up less frequently but they are present in the area, particularly in the gardens backing onto the cemetery and the allotments nearby. Overgrown plots, compost bins and fruit trees all attract rats and once they are in a garden they will probe for a way into the shed, garage or house. The drains under these 1930s streets are ageing and tree roots from the mature street trees have damaged many of them, giving rats an underground route from the sewer to the surface. We carry out rat control across Bandonhill with drain checks where the evidence suggests an underground entry.

Wasps nest in roof spaces and behind fascia boards across the area each summer. The 1930s houses have wooden soffits and barge boards that are easier for queen wasps to chew into than the PVC replacements on some of the renovated properties. Our wasp removal service handles nests safely and quickly, usually on the day you call.