Pest Control Balham

Pest Control in Balham

Balham has gone from being famously unfashionable to one of the most sought-after parts of south London, but the pest problems have not changed with the house prices. The streets around Balham High Road and Nightingale Lane are lined with Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many of them converted into flats and these older buildings bring challenges that no amount of renovation can completely eliminate. Mice are the number one issue. The original timber floors sit above shallow sub-floor voids ventilated by airbricks and where those airbricks are damaged or where the mortar around them has crumbled, mice simply walk in underneath the house. From there they follow the pipe runs and partition voids upward, appearing in kitchens on the ground floor, in bathrooms on the first floor and in loft conversions at the top. Our mouse control in Balham always starts with finding the entry points and the routes the mice are using through the building.

Rats are common too and the pattern in Balham follows the drainage. The sewers under these Victorian streets are old and the roots from the mature plane trees that line many of the roads push through the pipe joints over the decades. That damage gives rats a direct path from the sewer to the ground around properties and from there into gardens, under decking and sometimes into the house itself through a broken internal drain connection. The back gardens of the terraces create connected green corridors that rats use to move between properties unseen. We carry out rat control across Balham with drain camera surveys included whenever the evidence points underground.

Balham Common and the green spaces around Wandsworth Common to the north support grey squirrels and the large trees in the longer gardens give squirrels easy access to rooftops. Wasps nest in loft spaces and behind fascia boards every summer and the converted loft extensions that are so popular in Balham sometimes bring residents face to face with a nest they did not know was growing in the roof void next door. Our wasp removal service treats nests quickly and safely across the area.