Pest Control in Sunderland

Sunderland is a city at the mouth of the River Wear and its long industrial history as a shipbuilding and glass-making centre has left a built environment that creates all sorts of pest control challenges. The city centre around the Bridges shopping area, Fawcett Street and High Street West has a mix of Victorian commercial buildings, some converted to flats, alongside newer developments. The River Wear winds through the city and is the single biggest factor in rat activity. Rats use the river, the quaysides and the underground drainage to move through the urban area and the older buildings near the waterfront at Hendon, the East End and Roker have dealt with rat issues for generations. We carry out rat control in Sunderland on a large scale, covering both residential streets and commercial premises right across the city.

The residential areas fan out from the centre in all directions. The Victorian terraces at Hendon, Millfield and Ayres Quay are some of the oldest and they share the common issues of terraced housing: mice traveling through party walls, sub-floor voids providing nesting space and decades of alterations creating new entry points. The council estates at Pennywell, Southwick and Town End Farm have post-war housing with their own vulnerabilities. The more modern developments at Doxford Park and Silksworth are better sealed but still see problems, especially from mice moving in from the green corridors and playing fields that run through these areas. Mouse control in Sunderland is our most frequent residential call across every part of the city.

The coast at Roker and Seaburn brings seagull problems that extend well inland. Herring gulls and lesser black-backed gulls nest on flat roofs across the city centre and the coastal suburbs and their noise, mess and aggressive behaviour during nesting season cause real distress. Wasp nests are a constant summer problem too, turning up in everything from Victorian chimney stacks to the flat roofs on 1960s maisonettes. Sunderland's size and variety mean every type of pest issue comes up here and the river running through the heart of the city keeps the pressure on year after year.