Pest Control Woodmansterne

Pest Control in Woodmansterne

Woodmansterne sits right on the edge where suburban London gives way to the Surrey countryside. The village is small and spread out, with the houses along Woodmansterne Street and Chipstead Valley Road looking out over fields and farmland to the south. That rural fringe location is what makes Woodmansterne different from the rest of the SM postcode when it comes to pests. Rats here are often field rats rather than the sewer rats you get closer to the town centres. They live in the hedgerows, ditches and field margins around the village and move into gardens and outbuildings as the weather cools down. We see rat problems in Woodmansterne increase sharply every autumn when harvesting and ploughing disturb their burrows in the surrounding farmland.

The housing is a mixture of older village properties, some going back two hundred years or more and newer developments that have been added over the decades. The older houses have thick walls, uneven foundations and plenty of character, but they also have the kind of gaps and crevices that mice and rats can exploit. Newer houses tend to be better sealed, but even modern buildings can develop entry points where service pipes pass through walls or where the damp-proof course meets the brickwork. Mouse control in Woodmansterne covers the full range of properties and the rural surroundings mean there is always a fresh supply of mice looking to move in from outside.

The countryside setting also means Woodmansterne gets more than its share of wasp nests and problems with insects that you would not always associate with the London area. Ground-nesting wasps are more common here because of the gardens with lawns bordering open land and the older outbuildings and garages provide sheltered nesting spots above ground too. Squirrels are less of an issue than in the more urban parts of the SM postcode, but they are still around, especially where the mature trees in the village connect with the wooded areas of Chipstead Valley.